Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, palak_paneer_ pulao. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Palak Paneer Pulao is a complete meal in itself. It is made with cooked rice, spinach gravy, veggies and paneer. Little spicy and beautifully green coloured, this pulao is a healthy dish.
Palak_Paneer_ Pulao is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Palak_Paneer_ Pulao is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook palak_paneer_ pulao using 29 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Palak_Paneer_ Pulao:
- Get Measurement Cup SIze =200 Ml
- Get 🥗2 Cups Basmathi Rice
- Make ready 🥗250 grams Palak /Spinach
- Prepare 🥗3 Green chillies
- Prepare 🥗200 grams Paneer /Cottage Cheese/ other cream cheese cubes
- Make ready 🥗1/2 Cup Pudina /Mint leaves
- Make ready 🥗3 Onions Medium size
- Take 🥗1 Tomato large size
- Get 🥗1 Tbsp Garlic Paste
- Make ready 🥗1 Tbsp Ginger Paste
- Prepare 🥗1 Tsp Red Chilli Powder
- Make ready 🥗1 Tsp Coriander Powder
- Prepare 🥗1/2 Tsp Fennel Powder / Saunf Powder
- Prepare 🥗1/4 Tsp Turmeric Powder
- Make ready 🥗3 Tbsp Oil
- Make ready 🥗2 Tbsp Ghee
- Get 🥗10 Cashews Optional
- Prepare 🥗3 cups Water
- Make ready 🥗2 Tbsp Coriander leaves chopped
- Get 🥗1/2 Tbsp Lime Juice
- Take 🥗1 1/2 Tsp Salt or as requiref
- Take #Whole_Spices
- Prepare leaves 🥗2 Bay
- Get 🥗4 Green Cardamom
- Take 🥗1 Black Cardamom
- Make ready 🥗2 " inch Cinnamon Sticks
- Prepare Cloves 🥗4
- Prepare 🥗2 Strands Mace
- Take 🥗1/2 Tsp Stone Flower/ Dagad Phool
Both palak and paneer are healthy, pairing it together yields a super delicious and nutritious dish. Trying out different recipes with a healthy twist is what I often do, hence Palak Paneer Pulao made an appearance on my dining table. Meanwhile, add spinach, ginger, garlic, and green chilies to the mixer jar and make a paste. Now place the pan on the gas and add cumin, big cardamom, small cardamom, cinnamon long, and bay leaf and roast it for a while.
Steps to make Palak_Paneer_ Pulao:
- 🍚Soak rice for 15 minutes,drain water and keep it aside
- 🍚Blanch Spinach in hot water,add salt,drain water and keep it aside to cool.
- 🥗Take a mixer,add spinach, green chillies and blend well to get puree.Measure the puree in cup and keep it aside.
- 🥗Heat Oil and ghee in a thick bottom pan,add 1/4 cup sliced onions,fry well to brown, cashews fry till golden colour.
- 🥗Remove fried onions, and cashews with the help of slotted spoon and reserve it for garnishing.
- 🥗In the same pan,add all the whole spices,fry well till spices leaves flavours to oil.
- 🥗Add sliced onions,ginger garlic paste and fry well,till the raw smell goes off.
- Now add paneer cubes, and fry well until slight golden in colour.
- 🥗Add chopped tomatoes and fry well.
- 🥗Add all the dry spice powders and fry well along with tomatoes until well blend
- 🥗Add the prepared palak puree and mix well.
- Add drained rice,mix well with puree and continue to cook for 3-4 minutes
- 🥗Now add 3 cups of hot water,salt and continue to cook till done,it may take around 12-15 minutes
- 🥗Once done,add chopped coriander leaves,lemon juice and mix well.
- 🥗Garnish with fried onions,cashews and serve hot with green chutney
- Recipe Notes - Measure the quantity of spinach puree using measuring cup,so that you can adjust water content accordingly to cook rice. My spinach puree measured 1 Cup so i added only 3 cups of water for rice to get cooked. - Add
Basmati Rice cooked with Spinach gravy and Paneer. Serve it with Papad and Raita. Serve palak pulao with a side salad, pickle or raita. You can also garnish the spinach rice with some chopped coriander leaves or mint leaves. Pan fried paneer or tofu cubes also go very well as a garnish.
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