Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, palak paneer. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Palak paneer is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Palak paneer is something that I have loved my whole life.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook palak paneer using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak paneer:
- Get 200 grams Paneer Cubes
- Take 200 grams Palak
- Prepare 1 chopped onion
- Take 1 chopped Tomato
- Take 2 nos green chilies
- Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- Get 1 tbsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1 Small piece ginger
- Get 3 garlic pods
- Take as required Ghee or Butter
- Prepare As per taste Salt
- Take as required Water
- Get For Spices–
- Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Take 1 small stick cinnamon
- Make ready 2 cardamoms
- Take 3 cloves
- Take 1 star anise
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.
Instructions to make Palak paneer:
- Wash and clean the palak leaves
- Soak the paneer cubes in hot water for 5 minutes.. This will make the paneer more soft.
- Soak the cleaned palak leaves in hot water for 3 minutes and then again soak the leaves in ice cold water for 3 minutes. This process will make the palak to retain it's colour and this process is called blanching.
- Stain the palak leaves from cold water and blend the leaves with ginger, garlic and green chilies to a smooth paste.
- Heat some butter in a pan, add in the spices and chopped onion and fry till the onions are transparent
- Further add the tomatoes and cook well
- Once the tomatoes are mushy, add in the turmeric powder and coriander powder and saute till the raw smell leaves.
- Now add in the palak puree, enough water for the gravy and let it boil in low flame.
- Once it started boiling, it's time to add the paneer cubes and give a good mix.
- Pour the fresh cream and some methi leaves..
- Palak Paneer is ready to serve
Palak paneer is one of the most loved North Indian dishes that's eaten with roti, paratha, garlic naan, Jeera rice, Ghee rice or even with plain basmati rice. 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 one of the most popular paneer dishes. Paneer (Indian cottage cheese) is cooked with spinach and spices in this creamy and flavorful curry.
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