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Cheese Paneer Fruit Salad

A refreshing and flavorful appetizer featuring a mix of crumbled feta and cottage cheese, sweet grapes and watermelon, tangy dressing, and fresh herbs. This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

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Cheese Paneer Fruit Salad

Main Ingredients Feta cheese, Cottage cheese (paneer)
Cuisine Fusion
Course Snacks and Starters
Prep Time 31-40 minutes
Cook time 0-5 minutes
Serve 4
Taste Sweet
Level of Cooking Easy
Others Veg

Ingredients

  • 200 grams feta cheese
  • 200 grams cottage cheese (paneer)
  • 10 red grapes, deseeded and halved
  • ½ cup watermelon balls
  • ½ kiwi
  • 4 tablespoons honey
  • Salt to taste
  • Crushed black peppercorns to taste
  • 2-3 lemons
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 5 tulsi leaves + for garnish
  • ½ watermelon for garnish
  • 3-4 grapes deseeded, halved 
  • 8-10 readymade canapé shells
  • 20 small watermelon cubes for garnish
  • Fresh mint leaves for garnish
  • 8 whole red grapes for garnish

Method

  1. Cut 150 grams feta cheese into medium sized cubes. Set aside remaining cheese. Transfer in a bowl.
  2. Cut 150 grams paneer half into cubes. Set aside remaining paneer. Add in the bowl.
  3. Cut 7 red grapes into halves, deseed and add in bowl. Add watermelon scoop balls. Cut ½ kiwi into squares and add into bowl.
  4. To make the dressing, add honey, add salt, black pepper, lemon juice, olive oil in another bowl. Mix well.
  5. Add ladles of dressing over salad and mix well so as to coat over entire salad. Tear into half and add 5 tulsi leaves.
  6. Cut ¼ part of watermelon into thin long semi-circular slices. - garnish
  7. Make a border by placing 8 watermelon slices on the edge of a plate and transfer the salad in the centre of the plate. Garnish with 3 tulsi leaves, 3-4 deseeded halved grapes.
  8. In remaining dressing, add remaining paneer and feta cheese, crumble and mix well. Add cut deseed red grape.
  9. Take 8-10 canopies, add dressing mixture into canopies. Cut another remaining watermelon slice into triangles and add as plating, and add canopies in plate, garnish each canopy with 2 watermelon cubes and mint leaves and add whole 8 red grapes as a plating.
  10. Serve immediately.
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