Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, palak paneer. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Palak Paneer is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Palak Paneer is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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 must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook palak paneer using 18 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Paneer:
- Make ready 500 gms Palak
- Make ready 50 gms Dhaniya Leaves
- Take 200-300 gms Paneer
- Get 1 Onion
- Get 1 Tomato
- Prepare 2-3 Green Chillies
- Take 3-4 Garlic Cloves
- Prepare 1 Inch Ginger
- Make ready 3 Table Spoon Oil
- Prepare 2 Tea Spoon Jeera
- Get 3 Table Spoon Dahi
- Get Spices
- Prepare 1 Tea Spoon Salt
- Get 1/2 Tea Spoon Haldi Powder
- Make ready 3 Tea Spoon Dhaniya Powder
- Take 1 Table Spoon Atta
- Get 1 Tea Spoon Laal Mirch Powder
- Prepare 1 Tea Spoon Garam Masala
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. 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.
Instructions to make Palak Paneer:
- Chop Palak, Dhaniya Leaves, Tomato, Onion, Ginger, Garlic, Green Chillies roughly.
- Stir Dahi properly so that it doesn’t get burned while cooking & remember to use dahi only to cut the bitter taste of Palak & don’t use sugar.
- Now take a Big Pot, add 1 Litre in it & keep the gas on medium flame.
- When water starts boiling, add roughly chopped Palak leaves in it & cook them for 3-4 minutes.
- Now 1 minute before taking them out, add chopped dhaniya leaves in it & cook them for 1 minute.
- After 1 minute, turn off the gas & take them out in a plate & immediately wash them with cold water so that their cooking gets stopped & their colour doesn’t change more.
- Now let them cool down before grinding them.
- Meanwhile, take a kadhai, add 3 Table Spoon Oil or 30gms Butter in it & keep the gas on medium flame.
- When oil or butter gets heated, add 2 Teaspoon Jeera in it & let them sizzle.
- When Jeera starts sizzling, add roughly chopped Onion, Ginger, Garlic, Green chillies in it & cook them till they become translucent or soft.
- After 3-4 minutes, when they become soft, add roughly chopped tomato in it with 1 Teaspoon Salt so that they start releasing oil quickly & become soft.
- After 5-6 minutes, when oil is completely released &they become into paste, turn off the gas & take them out in a bowl & let them cool down.
- Cut Paneer in cubes or whatever shape you want & keep them at room temperature of 30 minutes.
- After some time when they cool down properly, grind boiled palak & dhaniya leaves & onion tomato mixture together finely into gravy in a mixer grinder.
- Now take same kadhai, add 2 Table Spoon Oil in it & keep the gas on medium flame.
- When oil gets heated up, add spices mix & 10gms butter in it & roast them for 1-2 minutes.
- After 1-2 minutes, add finely grinded Palak gravy paste in it with some water, mix them properly & let them boil.
- When first boil comes up, lower the flame, add 3 Table Spoon Dahi in it & start stirring them immediately so that it doesn’t get burned.
- Then add paneer cubes in it & mix them properly.
- Now cover the lid & let them cook for 3 minutes.
- After 3 minutes, open the lid & add 1 Teaspoon Garam Masala in it & mix it properly.
- Your Palak Paneer is ready to be served.
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. Mix in the paneer to coat it. 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 popular dish from North India (Punjab).
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