Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, palak paneer. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Palak paneer is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Palak paneer is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook palak paneer using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak paneer:
- Prepare 2-3 bunch palak / spinach
- Take 1 cup paneer cube
- Take 1 inch ginger
- Make ready 6-7 cloves garlic
- Take 4 green chilli
- Take 3 tsp oil/butter
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin
- Get 1 onion
- Make ready 1 tomato
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Take 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon garam masala
- Make ready 2 tbsp fresh cream
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:
- To a pot of boiling water, add little salt and then spinach leaves to it. Blanch the spinach leaves for 2 to 3 minutes until wilted.
- Take them out and put them in ice cold water. This helps the leaves in retaining their green color.
- To a blender, add the blanched spinach and Puree to a smooth paste and set aside.
- Heat a pan on medium heat. Once hot, add the oil and then add onion, tomato, 6 cloves of garlic, ginger and green chili.
- To a blender add onion,tomato, cloves of garlic, ginger and green chillies.Blend to a smooth paste and mix it with spinach puree.Mix very well
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil (or ghee or butter) in a pan. Here I have used butter.
- Add ½ teaspoon cumin seeds and let them splutter.Then add 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic, ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder, ½ teaspoon red chili powder and a pinch of hing.
- Then add the palak (spinach) puree.Add about ½ cup of water or as required. Mix and stir again.
- Simmer the gravy for 6 to 7 minutes or more until the palak (spinach) is cooked. Season with salt.
- Stir again and then add the paneer cubes
- Mix very well and switch off the heat.Lastly add 2 tablespoons low-fat cream. I used Amul brand cream.And Serve palak paneer hot
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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