Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, palak paneer. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Stir pureed spinach mixture into skillet with paneer. Palak Paneer is a popular Indian dish of Indian cottage cheese cubes in a mild, spiced smooth spinach sauce. This delicious creamy dish is made with fresh spinach leaves, paneer (firm cottage cheese), onions, tomatoes, herbs and spices.
Palak Paneer is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Palak Paneer is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook palak paneer using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Paneer:
- Make ready 200 g Paneer
- Make ready 2 Bunches Palak (Spinach)
- Make ready 2 Onion
- Prepare 2 Tomatoes
- Make ready 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste
- Get 2-3 Green Chillies
- Get 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- Get 3 Cloves
- Take 1 small size Cinnamon stick
- Make ready 2 Cardamom
- Take 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Chilli Powder
- Get 1 tsp Garam Masala
- Take 1 tsp Dry Fenugreek Leaves (Kasuri Methi)
- Prepare 1 tbsp oil
- Prepare 1 small cube of butter
- Get Fresh Cream (Optional)
- Make ready 8-10 Cashews
It is very easy to prepare and can be made in so many ways. This is an easy and healthy palak paneer recipe which I finally arrived at after trying so many other recipes. Palak paneer is a north Indian vegetarian curry with origins in the Punjab region. Palak Paneer is one of the most popular paneer dishes.
Instructions to make Palak Paneer:
- Wash the Spinach thoroughly and keep it aside also defrost the paneer if it's kept in the fridge.
- Chop- Onion, Tomatoes, and Green Chillies.
- In a wok, add a tbsp of oil and once the oil is hot, add all the spices- first, Cumin seeds, Cinnamon, Cardamom and Cloves.
- Later, add Garlic ginger paste and saute it till the raw smell of it disappears and next add the chopped Onions and cook it till it turns translucent then add Tomatoes and Green Chillies, saute and let it cook till the tomatoes break down and turn mushy.
- Add Turmeric, Chilli Powder, dry fenugreek powder, cashews, salt, and mix it well.
- Now add the spinach and saute it well till the spinach goes all soft. Off the stove and keep it aside, let the mixture cool.
- Meanwhile, heat a pan and add a tsp of oil and a cube of butter. Add the paneer and fry them well. (This is optional, you can even add the paneer as it is, by doing this step it just gives the paneer a crispy coating.)
- Now, blend the mixture which was kept aside to cool down. Blend it well to a smooth paste.
- Heat the wok, add a tbsp of oil and once the oil is hot, pour the blended mixture, add half a cup of warm water and mix it well. Add Garam Masala to it and saute it for 2-3 mins till the oil starts to separate.
- Add the paneer and mix it. Finally, pour the fresh cream.
- Serve Hot.
- Goes best with Jeera Rice/Plain Rice or with Chapathi, roti or Naan.
Paneer (Indian cottage cheese) is cooked with spinach and spices in this creamy and flavorful curry. It pairs well with naan, paratha or jeera rice. When we were kids, the only way my brothers would eat spinach was if it was cooked with paneer in palak paneer. Palak Paneer is a quintessential North Indian vegetarian dish made with cottage cheese and fresh spinach. Just the sight of white cubes of paneer peeping through the emerald green spinach puree will make your mouth water.
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