Indian cottage cheese.

[Sanna.]

I love an Indian dish with Indian cottage cheese (paneer something in tomato sauce) and I wonder where I can buy this cheese? (it,s not the same as European style cottage cheese)

[mustafa]

I know you can buy plain frozen paneer at Mustafa.  Don't know about tomato variety though.

[KVR]

You can also buy ' Paneer" at Cold Storage in Great World. I am not sure if all CS supermarkets carry it. though.

[Moosie]

Yup, Mustafa will have it, frozen and fresh.  Its very high in fat and cholesterol, but indulging once in a while is no harm

[to sanna]

it's a fraction of the price at mustaffa

[greyfieldmouse]

You can also make your own. The ingredients are the same as for making ricotta and if you strain all the liquid out, you would get a hard, paneer texture. Has anyone used "hard" ricotta as paneer?

I make my own ricotta - see http://italianfood.about.com/library/rec/nr0949.htm  for one recipe. Mine is as follows: Mix 2 tspns lemon juice with 2 litres of milk and leave in fridge for 36 hours. Add 2/3rds of cup of plain yoghurt and mix with a wooden spoon until fully incorporated. Put into saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring constantly with wooden spoon. Boil for 1 minute, then remove the pan from the heat. Use a large colander lined with heavy cheese cloth to drain the ricotta. Tie the cloth in a way that it can be hung (I hang it from the kitchen sink tap). Let it hang for 1 hour. The ricotta will then be ready to use.

I use muslins that I used to wrap the babies instead of cheesecloth and just wash them in the machine afterwards.

[Question]

To greyfieldmouse - thanks for the recipe, I've been looking for an easy ricotta recipe.
However, you left out vital pieces of info: what kind of milk do you use (fat content)? Plain yogurt - how much fat content, does it have to be the local sour yogurt or pasteurised? TIA

[Sanna]

Thanks everyone, on my way to Mustafa!

[greyfieldmouse]

I use full fat milk and yogurt. Any sort of plain yogurt without sugar should do.