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Cottage Cheese Turkish Pasta 🇹🇷 Turkish
Pasta in garlicky yogurt, topped with spiced browned beef and a sizzling paprika-chili butter, inspired by Turkish manti. This cottage cheese version is finished with paneer. Ready in about 35 minutes.
Ingredients 🧀 Yogurt 1 cup 🧀 Butter 3 tbsp 🧀 Paneer 1/2 cup cottage cheese (or crumbled paneer) 🧅 Onion 1, finely chopped 🧄 Garlic 2 cloves, grated 🍗 Ground Beef 250 g 🍅 Tomato Paste 1 tbsp 🌶️ Paprika 1 tsp 🌾 Pasta Shells 300 g Optional extras 🌶️ Urfa Pepper Flakes 1 tsp 🌿 Dried Mint 1 tsp Instructions 1 Brown the beef with onion, stir in tomato paste and season.
2 Cook the pasta until al dente.
3 Mix yogurt with garlic and a pinch of salt.
4 Melt butter with paprika, pepper flakes and mint until sizzling.
5 Spoon garlic yogurt over the pasta, top with beef and drizzle with the spiced butter.
6 Add spoonfuls of cottage cheese before serving.
Chef's tip
Keep the yogurt at room temperature so it doesn't chill the hot pasta.
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Cottage Cheese Turkish Pasta
Time 35 min
Serves 4
Level Easy
Prep / cook 10 / 25 min Ingredients 🧀 Yogurt 1 cup 🧀 Butter 3 tbsp 🧀 Paneer 1/2 cup cottage cheese (or crumbled paneer) 🧅 Onion 1, finely chopped 🧄 Garlic 2 cloves, grated 🍗 Ground Beef 250 g 🍅 Tomato Paste 1 tbsp 🌶️ Paprika 1 tsp 🌾 Pasta Shells 300 g Optional 🌶️ Urfa Pepper Flakes 1 tsp 🌿 Dried Mint 1 tsp Steps Brown the beef with onion, stir in tomato paste and season. Cook the pasta until al dente. Mix yogurt with garlic and a pinch of salt. Melt butter with paprika, pepper flakes and mint until sizzling. Spoon garlic yogurt over the pasta, top with beef and drizzle with the spiced butter. Add spoonfuls of cottage cheese before serving. 
