Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, palak paneer. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Palak paneer is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Palak paneer is something that I have loved my entire life.
Palak paneer is the authentic Indian dish made with only spinach puree, where saag paneer is made with a mixture of various greens. Saag paneer seems to have been popularized outside of India, however it is still very uncommon in India. In the Punjabi or Hindi language the word 'saag' means greens.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook palak paneer using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak paneer:
- Make ready 1 bunch Palak/spinach
- Make ready 100 gms paneer
- Make ready 2 onions, chopped
- Make ready 2 chopped tomato
- Take 2-3 chopped green chillies
- Take 1 tsp ginger paste/ grated
- Take As per taste Salt
- Get 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 pinch asefetida
- Get 2 tsp oil/butter/ghee
- Make ready 1 tsp garam masala
- Prepare as required Cream for garnishing (optional)
Palak Paneer is one of the most popular paneer dishes. 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. Mix in the paneer to coat it.
Steps to make Palak paneer:
- First of all nicely wash the spinach/Palak leaves and boil them in a pan with 1/4 glass of water.
- Once it is boiled let it cool and then blend it to a smooth paste.
- In a pan heat ghee/butter/oil add cumin seeds, asafoetida and ginger paste saute it for 5-7 seconds and add Chopped onion once they are transparent add chopped tomatoes, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and saute it nicely till the oil is separated then add the Palak/spinach paste.
- Add half glass of water and let it boil for 4-5 minutes than add the paneer cut in cube shape.
- Boil it for more 3-4 minutes and add garam masala and mix softly than switch off the flame.Palak paneer is ready to serve garnish with cream(optional)
Heat the oil in a frying pan and cook the paneer for a few minutes until crisp and golden on all sides. 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. Blanched and pureed spinach is cooked with select spices and the paneer is tossed in at the end. This helps to give the paneer soft texture.
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