Chicken and Cottage cheese coriander steak with roasted veggies

My family is pure meat eaters. They can start eating meat right from the bed, from breakfast to dinner. We are even much crazy sometimes when we go out late night and hog on meats from fast foods open through out the night and mobile food vans. I wonder how our digestive system would be cursing us for it, but looks like it is in our Mallu genes to take care of that :D

Yes this is Kerala, where everyone knows a Malayali can get a meat cravings attack anytime...yes anytime :)

My boys had a heavy lunch from outside (without me), yeah that happens too when 2 of them ditch me and gang up. I unaware of all facts thought to prepare a full protein exciting dish for them, put together this, all meaty, veggie, dairy extravaganza. They were planning to skip the dinner, and I was upset about it thinking through my effort. 

But I had faith in my dish and also the Mallu blood, which can jump on this when they see it out from oven. And I would say, it was literally JUMPING on it. I had to secretly save my share of chicken, otherwise would have gone!

Anyways I am happy when others enjoy my food, so my effort did not go waste. The whole thing was finished by 3 of us in just a matter of 30 minutes. 

So over to recipe now. It is such a simple one to put together, and this will make sure you get your daily dose of protein, fiber and what else you want...yeah I know taste buds. They will thank you for this :)

Ingredients:

Chicken breasts - 6 pieces

Cottage cheese - 200 GM , cut into 2 inch cubes

Veggies - tomatoes, carrots, beans, broccoli, cauliflower, green peas, garlic cloves, zucchini , onions diced 

Olive oil - 1 tbsp

Marinade:

Yogurt - 1/2 cup

Coriander leaves - 1 cup 

Paprika powder - 2 tsp

Cumin powder - 1 tsp

Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Lemon juice - of 2 lemons

Onion powder - 1 tsp

Garlic powder - 1 tsp

Pepper powder - 1 tsp

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp

Green chillies - 8 nos

Method:

Grind all ingredients for marinade.

Make slits in chicken breast and baste the marinade. In another bowl mix cottage cheese in sans marinade. 

Keep it in refrigerator for 1 hour.

Meanwhile arrange the veggies in a baking tray and drizzle salt, pepper and olive oil. 

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. 

In another tray arrange the chicken and cottage cheese in another tray. Drizzle olive oil and bake chicken for 20 minutes each side or till golden. 

For cottage cheese, just bake for 10 mins in first side and 5 minutes other side.

You can have it as such or side it with rice or quinoa boiled.