Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, palak paneer. 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 on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Palak Paneer is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice 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 begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook palak paneer using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Paneer:
- Get 250 gms Palak
- Prepare 200 gms Paneer
- Get 1 Onion
- Take 3 Tomatoes
- Make ready 3 Green chilli
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
- Prepare 2 Cloves
- Prepare 4-5 Black pepper
- Take 1/2 inch dalchini stick
- Make ready 3 tbsp Butter
- Make ready 2 tbsp Oil
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare 1 tsp Red chilli powder
- Take 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- Get 1 tsp Dhaniya powder
- Take 1 tsp Jeera powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Ginger grated
- Make ready 5-6 pods Garlic
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:
- Wash the Palak.Add enough water in a pan and bring it to a boil.Add washed palak leaves to it.Off the flame and cover it for two minutes.Drain the water and transfer palak to a stainer.Add normal water over it so that it's colour does not change.
- In a mixer jar add palak and green chillies and grind it to a smoooth paste.
- In a kadai add one tbsp butter and oil.After it heats add bay leaf,cloves,pepper,dalchini and saute it.Add onions,ginger,garlic and saute it till onions change colour.Add tomatoes to it and saute till it becomes soft.Transfer it to a plate and allow it to cool.
- In a mixer jar add the above ingredients and grind it to a smooth paste.
- Cut paneer into cubes and sprinkle salt and turmeric powder over it.Keep it aside.
- In same kadai add remaining butter and oil.Add the grinded onion paste to it.Add salt,red chilli powder,dhania powder,jeera powder and salt to it.Cook it for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add palak paste to it.Cook it for 3 to 4 minutes.Now add paneer cubes to it. Stir slowly so that paneer cubes does not break.Cook it for 2 to 4 minutes on medium to low flame.Then off the flame.
- Tranfer it to another bowl.Serve hot with phulkas.You can garnish it with fresh cream.
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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