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Cottage Cheese Balls in Tomato Sauce with Herbed Spaghetti

Tarla Dalal
06 December, 2024


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Flavourful and succulent cottage cheese balls; tangy tongue-tickling tomato sauce; and perfectly cooked, herbed spaghetti... each of these is as perfect as can be, whether in terms of flavour, texture or appearance, and when they come together the outcome is nothing short of magic.
The tomato sauce, which is the highlight of this recipe, is absolutely amazing with a fresh, tangy flavour and a really luscious mouth-feel enhanced by the addition of fresh cream.
Indeed, Cottage Cheese Balls in Tomato Sauce with Herbed Spaghetti can independently be served as a meal, as it is sure to please you and satiate you with its holistic composition and lingering flavour.
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Preparation Time
30 Mins
Cooking Time
20 Mins
Total Time
50 Mins
Makes
3 servings
Ingredients
For The Tomato Sauce
1 3/4 cups fresh tomato pulp
1 tbsp butter
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 tsp dry red chilli flakes (paprika)
2 tsp sugar
salt to taste
1 tbsp fresh cream
For The Cottage Cheese Balls
1 1/2 cups crumbled paneer (cottage cheese)
2 bread , torn into pieces
3 tbsp curd (dahi)
1 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania)
1/2 tsp finely chopped green chillies
2 tbsp cornflour
1/4 tsp baking soda
salt to taste
oil for deep-frying
For The Herbed Spaghetti
1 tsp dried mixed herbs
3 cups cooked spaghetti
1 1/2 tbsp butter
1 1/2 tsp finely chopped garlic (lehsun)
salt to taste
Method
- Combine the bread slices and curds in a bowl, mix well and cover with a lid and keep aside for 5 minutes.
- Combine all the ingredients along with the bread-curd mixture in a deep bowl and mix very well.
- Divide the mixture into 12 equal portions and roll each portion into a ball.
- Heat the oil in a deep non-stick pan and deep-fry a few cottage cheese balls at time on a medium flame till they turn golden brown in colour from all the sides. Drain on an absorbent paper and keep aside.
- Heat the butter in a broad non-stick pan, add the garlic and sauté on a medium flame for a few seconds.
- Add the mixed herbs, spaghetti and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minutes, while stirring occasionally. Keep aside.
- Heat the butter in a broad non-stick pan, add the onions and sauté on a medium flame for 1 minute.
- Add the fresh tomato pulp, chilli flakes, sugar and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 3 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
- Add the fresh cream, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute, while stirring occasionally. Keep aside.
- Divide the herbed spaghetti into 3 equal portions and keep aside.
- Reheat the tomato sauce, add the cottage cheese balls, mix gently and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute. Divide it into 3 equal portions and keep aside.
- Place portion of the herbed spaghetti on a serving plate along the circumference of a plate.
- Put the tomato sauce along with cottage cheese balls in the centre of the spaghetti.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 to make 2 more servings.
- Serve immediately.
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Dixita
March 13, 2025, midnight
What can I use instead of bread slice for paneer balls?

Tarla Dalal
March 13, 2025, midnight
If you don''t wish to use bread slice then skip adding curd too and just add 2 tbsp of plain flour (maida) to the cottage cheese ball mixture.

PKaur
March 13, 2025, midnight
Hi .. Can corn flour be skipped somehow?

vidhi
March 13, 2025, midnight
awesome taste!!!

Tarla Dalal
March 13, 2025, midnight
Thank you for your kind words. Do try more and more recipes and let us know how they turned out. Happy Cooking !!

Gandhi Dhwani
March 13, 2025, midnight
Cottage cheese balls along with tomato sauce and eaten with noodles, sounds like a complete party dish or an exiting dinner.. Love the idea. The flavouring of noodles with butter and garlic is also a very good taste enhancer.. Must definitely try..

Waseem
March 13, 2025, midnight
So yummy and totally worth trying it. Especially the cottage cheese balls, you coulld even use them in some other dish as well. Thanks a lot Ma''am.

Tarla Dalal
March 13, 2025, midnight
Hi Waseem, we are delighted you loved the recipe. Please keep posting your thoughts and feedback. Happy Cooking.

Foodie #561370
March 13, 2025, midnight
I want to try this receipe but we dont eat bread. What can i replace bread with in the balls?

Foodie #667910
March 13, 2025, midnight
I didn''t have paneer so I added grated cauliflower ..the recipe was super duper hit..so simple and less ingredients..!!!

Tarla Dalal
March 13, 2025, midnight
That is an amazing idea. We are delighted you loved the recipe. Please keep posting your thoughts and feedback about recipes you have tried. Happy Cooking!