====== Haloumi Cheese Masala ======
===== Ingredients =====
**Blended Paste** 
  * 1 tub tomato paste
  * 6-8 cherry tomatos
  * 2 chillies (chopped) or jalapeno
  * 1 teaspoon olive oil
  * 1/2 tsp tumeric powder
  * 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
  * Fresh corriander leaves
  * Some water (little)

**Other ingredients**
  * Block of Haloumi Cheese
  * Cumin seeds
  * 2 sliced onions (not diced)
  * Garlic/Ginger
  * Salt
  * 1 can of coconut milk
  * Corriander paste
  * Tumeric Powder
  * 4 tsp garam masala
  * 1 tab butter
  * 2 cans of Chickpeas


===== Procedure =====
  - Make paste, blend all ingredients together. Sit aside.
  - Toast cumin seeds in pan with oil
  - Add hamoumi cheese, slice cheese down the middle into thinnner slabs and brown on each side in the toasted cumin seeds
  - When cheese is browned on either side, dice into pieces on chopping board. Set aside
  - Caramalise the sliced onions, slowly, with some butter.
  - Add 1 tea of cumin seeds
  - Add diced garlic and ginger
  - Add small pinch of salt
  - Add the blended paste of spices. Cook for a couple of minutes.
  - Add tin of diced tomatos and tin of coconut milk
  - Add 1 tea of tumeric powder
  - Add 4 tea of garam masala
  - Add 1 tab of butter
  - Add the chickpeas
  - Cook for 5 minutes
  - Add haloumi cheese last, heat only then turn off the stove and serve the dish.

Serve.
Best eaten with nan-bread. Adjust spices and salt as necessary. Additional chilli powder as necessary.

 --- //Dale Cutts//

{{tag>vegetarian favourite}}