Savoury Semolina Squares

In today’s post I am sharing a recipe which my Mom used to make and according to her she learnt it from my aunt, so thank you Mom and Bua for the inspiration. It used to be a mildly flavoured savoury dish made of Semolina (Suji) and Cottage Cheese (Paneer). Though it was a tasty dish but as my kids like little bit of spice in their food so I tweaked that dish to their liking and here is the result.
 People who are not fond of spicy food they can also enjoy this recipe by omitting red chilly flakes.
This recipe can also be made in its original avatar ,just by excluding bell peppers , sweet corn and various seasonings.

Ingredients:

1 and 1/2 cup Semolina (Suji)

1/2 cup Cottage Cheese (Paneer) crumbled

1 and 1/2 cup of finely chopped red, yellow and green bell peppers

3/4 cup boiled corn kernels

1 medium sized onion finely chopped

1 and 1/2 tbsp. Ghee or any kind of cooking oil

1/2 tsp. Garlic bread seasoning,

1/2 tsp. Basil

1/2 tsp. Oregano

1 tsp. Red Chilli flakes

1 and 1/2 cup of water

Salt to taste

METHOD:

1). Put a pan on your burner and as it heats up add ghee/ oil to it. After ghee melts add chilli flakes, oregano, basil and garlic bread seasoning to it.

  

2). Add your onions to the pan and sauté till it turns translucent. Put in your mixed peppers at this point and sauté it for a minute or 30 seconds. We don't want peppers to become too soft or change colour.

3). Add your Semolina (Suji) and again sauté on medium flame for a minute and a half .we don’t want semolina to change colour.

4).Grind your boiled corn kernels to a coarse paste and add to the above mix along with crumbled paneer .Give it a nice mix and add salt to taste.

5).Now add your water and mix till it gets absorbed .Switch off your burner. Allow this mix to cool down a bit. Amount of water may need to be adjusted because of different quality of semolina. Basically we want a halva like consistency and for those of you who aren’t familiar with halva (, it’s a popular Indian dessert.) the consistency can be compared maybe with thick cake batter.

6). Grease a square baking tin or a serving tray or even a dinner plate will do. Grease it with oil or ghee and dust it with Semolina (Suji) .Add your mixture to it and pat it down with your hand or spatula to flatten it. Now spread some more S

uji on top. Keep your tin in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

4).When set, cut it into small squares. Sometimes when you are in a hurry and can’t spare time to set it, you can just make bite size patties with it, this won’t make any difference in taste its only matter of presentation.

Take out all squares and put on a  well-greased shallow frying pan and switch on you gas .let it fry on one side for a minute or until it starts getting slightly brown.

5). Take it off the pan and serve with green chutney or tomato ketchup.