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