Here comes another week in the monthly BM and for this week, I chose an interesting theme – Casseroles. Believe me, I haven’t made casseroles till now. That is why I picked the theme so that I can try some recipes for my paleo diet. The recipes I went through for casseroles were loaded with white sauce and cheese. I can do with cheese, but white sauce is made with flour, so I couldn’t use it. I was searching for a flour less option when I read about cream cheese sauce. Unfortunately I didn’t have cream cheese also. But being a food blogger form more than seven years, I can improvise with any ingredient at hand. As part of the diet, I won’t eat curd or hung curd. But I can safely eat cream and cream based products. So I usually stock my fridge with hung curd made entirely of cream. It is so rich and creamy to taste and that was what came to my mind when I was thinking of white sauce. This was an experiment with ingredients and I was so happy when it turned out so good. Tomorrow I will also add a paleo white sauce. But wait for that.
I usually count my macros and for the day I was to take 100 gm of paneer. So I did some calculations and came up with this recipe. I will give you a recipe from which you can make this dish with 200 gm of paneer but I made it in a small ramekin just for me. It was my dinner yesterday and I so loved it. I also had some cucumber slices along with it. It is such an amazing combination of flavours. You can absolutely taste the fusion here. You need to try this to believe what I am talking about. That yellow chilly powder I added on top really made the dish flavourful. If you don’t have it don’t worry, go for the usual red chilly powder.
Ingredients:
Paneer – 200 gm
Hung Curd (made with Amul Cream) – 1/4 cup
Amul Low Fat Cream – 1/4 cup
Garlic Powder – 1/4 tsp
Salt and Pepper – to taste
Paleo Tomato Sauce (click for recipe) – 1/4 cup
Yellow Chilly Powder – 1/2 tsp
Cheddar Cheese – 1/4 cup (grated)
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 200°C.
In a bowl combine together hung curd, cream, salt and pepper.
In a glass dish pour half the tomato sauce. Add half the cubed paneer on top and top t with half the curd mix.
Add a few sprinkling of cheese and repeat the layers once again.
Top the whole casserole with remaining cheese and sprinkle yellow chilly powder on top.
Bake this in the preheated oven for 20 minutes on middle rack and 10 minutes on upper rack.
Serve it piping hot straight out of oven.
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Creamy Paneer Yogurt Casserole Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Paneer - 200 gm
- Hung Curd - 1/4 cup made with Amul Cream
- Amul Low Fat Cream - 1/4 cup
- Garlic Powder - 1/4 tsp
- Salt and Pepper - to taste
- Paleo Tomato Sauce - 1/4 cup click for recipe
- Yellow Chilly Powder - 1/2 tsp
- cup Cheddar Cheese - 1/4 grated
Instructions
Procedure
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- In a bowl combine together hung curd, cream, salt and pepper.
- In a glass dish pour half the tomato sauce. Add half the cubed paneer on top and top t with half the curd mix.
- Add a few sprinkling of cheese and repeat the layers once again.
- Top the whole casserole with remaining cheese and sprinkle yellow chilly powder on top.
- Bake this in the preheated oven for 20 minutes on middle rack and 10 minutes on upper rack.
- Serve it piping hot straight out of oven.
Yes Ma’am ! I agree you can make any recipe work , no wonder you are the Guru :)) . Very well made and now you are tempting me to try it .
Wonderful ..Loved this idea of single serving cassarole.. And it is such a boon for anubody who is dieting 🙂 great job !!
Hi,
Will this dish on sweeter side or spicy one?
Thank you
It will be spicier.
Looks so rich and creamy! I love the way you came up with alternatives to make the recipe work for you.
This casserole sounds so delicious. If paleo diet is so delicious, I’ll thinking of going with it though taking only this type of delicious things along with my usual junk
I always serve casserole dishes in single portions. That way I control the portions hubby and I can have. Love the paneer and yogurt casserole.
Very beautifully made another delight for paleo dieters
That looks so tempting, Gayathri! Love tour innovations despite your diet restrictions. Awesome recipe! This looks gorgeous
loving your inventive paneer casseroles
Dieting or not, this one looks extremely tempting!