Grilling Cheese Tikka Masala with Rice
plus Bell Pepper & Cilantro
- Milk
Chicken tikka masala goes vegetarian! Here, chicken is subbed out for cubes of grilling cheese similar to Indian paneer (it won't melt in the hot sauce!). It’s tossed with pan-fried bell pepper and onion in a creamy curry sauce base with garam masala, mushroom stock, and a bit of sour cream. Serve it over fluffy rice with a final flourish of fresh cilantro.
Ingredients
1 unit
Green Bell Pepper
½ teaspoon
Garam Masala
3 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
5 ounce
Curry Sauce Base
(Contains: Milk)
1 tablespoon
Fry Seasoning
1 unit
Onion
6 ounce
Grilling Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Mushroom Stock Concentrate
¾ cup
Jasmine Rice
¼ ounce
Cilantro
Not included in your delivery
0.13 teaspoon (tsp)
Sugar
2 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Cooking Steps
In a small pot, combine rice, 1¼ cups water (2¼ cups for 4 servings), and a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to low. Cook until tender, 15-18 minutes.
Keep covered off heat until ready to serve.
While rice cooks, wash and dry produce. Halve, peel, and thinly slice onion. Core, deseed, and slice bell pepper into ½-inch-thick strips. Cut grilling cheese into ½-inch cubes. Roughly chop cilantro.
Heat a large drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and bell pepper; cook, stirring occasionally, until beginning to soften, 2-3 minutes.
To pan with veggies, add Fry Seasoning, curry sauce base, stock concentrate, half the garam masala, ¾ cup water, 1 TBSP butter, a pinch of sugar, salt, and pepper (for 4 servings, use all the garam masala, 1¼ cups water, 2 TBSP butter, and a big pinch of sugar). Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until sauce has slightly thickened and everything is thoroughly combined, 2-4 minutes more.
Turn off heat; stir in grilling cheese and sour cream. Taste and season with salt and pepper if desired.
Fluff rice with a fork.
Divide rice between shallow bowls or plates. Top with grilling cheese tikka masala. Garnish with cilantro and serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many enjoyed the tasty, flavorful sauce, though some found it bland or unlike traditional tikka masala.
- Ease of prep: Quick and simple to make, but some felt the vegetables needed longer cooking time.
- Suggestions: Consider pan-frying the cheese first for better texture; add extra spices or coconut milk for richer flavor 🍲.
- Leftovers: Several mentioned it tasted even better the next day as leftovers.
- Cheese: The grilling cheese divided opinions; some loved it, while others found the texture rubbery or melty.
- Vegetables: A few suggested adding more veggies or swapping green peppers for red ones.
Reviews from our home cooks
We found the curry sauce that you provided to be less flavorful than when you send the ingredients and we make it ourselves. I did love the idea of putting the grilling cheese in the dish though. You should do more with grilling cheese. It's tasty and I love the texture.
This was really good and I would get it again, but I think next time I would use a bit less of the spice. It may be nice to make a side note saying how strong the indian spices can be and using too much will overpower the dish. Next time I make it I might also choose to use something other than peppers
Taste, ease of making. One of your best! Keep finding new ways to use the grilling cheese please!
Amazing flavour tikka masala is one of my fave things although the cheese did melt and lose its shape
Loved this dish. Could use an extra vegetable but loved the texture taste of the cheese.
I wish we got to make the sauce. I think the onions and peppers were better cubed. I also think that the cheese should have been lightly fried at the start because I had an issue with it melting into the dish
Could have had more veggies, and used yogurt as is traditional in Indian curries instead of sour cream. Also curious why paneer cheese wasn't used.
SO good. Love the flavor, the choice of veggies was interesting, it felt more like fajitas, but it was delicious
I really liked the cheese, but there could have been more vegetables. The sauce flavor wasn't the same as what you buy from the store or a restaurant. I feel like something was missing.
Peppers and onion needed a LOT longer to cook to get peppers to soften at all. Need to keep heat on longer to actually warm the cheese up.
