How to Make Tasty Bengali style Chanar Dalna/Paneer Balls curry

How to Make Tasty Bengali style Chanar Dalna/Paneer Balls curry Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Bengali style Chanar Dalna/Paneer Balls curry. Chanar Dalna is a typical niramish (vegetarian) Bengali dish where homemade paneer balls or koftas are fried and cooked in a lightly spiced, subtly sweet gravy with potatoes. I have shared my Mother's recipe of Chanar Dalna in this post which is cooked with a fresh ground paste of cumin and ginger. Restaurant Style Matar Paneer (Also known as Peas Paneer) Restaurant Style Navratan Korma Navaratan Korma (also known as Navratna Korma) Chanar Dalna (also known as Bengali Cottage Cheese and Potato Curry) Chana Bhapa (Also known as Bhapa Chana) Have you tried the Bengali Ponir er Torkari recipe from Debjanir Rannaghar!

This curry can be served with rice or roti and is quite simple to make if you have the chana ready in the refrigerator.

You can make cottage cheese in advance and stock it up in the freezer for later use.

Serve Chanar Dalna with steamed rice and Bengali Luchi.

You can have Bengali style Chanar Dalna/Paneer Balls curry using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bengali style Chanar Dalna/Paneer Balls curry

1. You need 1 ltr of milk.

2. It’s 1 of lemon.

3. Prepare 1 of potato cubed.

4. It’s 1 tbsp of fresh cream.

5. It’s 1 1/2 tsp of ginger paste.

6. You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

7. It’s 1/4 tsp of red chilli powder.

8. Prepare 1 tsp of aloo dum masala.

9. Prepare 1 tsp of roasted cumin powder.

10. You need 1/2 tsp of garam masala powder.

11. Prepare Pinch of asafoetida.

12. Prepare To taste of salt and sugar.

13. Prepare 2 tbsp of mustard oil.

14. It’s 1 tsp of ghee.

15. Prepare 1 tbsp of tomato puree.

16. It’s 1 tbsp of green peas.

17. It’s 1 of bay leaf.

18. It’s 1 tsp of chopped coriander.

19. You need 1 tbsp of refined flour.

Chanar Dalna or Cottage Cheese Ball Curry is an authentic Bengali recipe.

I remember, when I was a child, my grandma used to make chanar dalna almost every Saturday, and I simply cannot forget the taste of that curry.

The main two ingredients of this dish are cottage cheese and potato.

It's a very simple recipe without onion and garlic.

Bengali style Chanar Dalna/Paneer Balls curry instructions

1. Boil milk and squeeze juice of lemon till water separates from milk.Strain out the water completely from paneer. This water may be used in any vegetarian gravy..

2. Mash the paneer.Add little maida and mash it thoroughly.Add salt and pinch of sugar to taste.Add little roasted jeera powder.Make small balls out of it and fry lightly.Cube 1 potato to small pieces and fry till soft in low flame..

3. Now add a pinch of hing,ginger paste and tomato puree to the remaining oil.Add Dum Aloo masala,haldi, red chilli powder,salt and sugar to taste,and fry.Add little water,green peas,bay leaf and potato cubes and boil for few minutes.Slowly add the soft paneer balls,fresh cream and cook for few minutes.Sprinkle roasted jeera powder,garam masala and fresh cream and toss.Garnish with chopped coriander and serve with roti, rice,or pulao..

ABOUT Chhanar dalna / Bengali homemade Paneer curry RECIPE.

It is a Bengali dish, we all Bengalis like it very much.

It is a very simple curry made with home made paneer.

Enjoy this finger licking curry with a bowl of steamed rice and roasted papad.

Chanar dalna recipe with step by step pics.