Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, palak paneer/ cottage cheese in spinach sauce. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Paneer (Indian cottage cheese) is cooked with spinach and spices in this creamy and flavorful curry. 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.
Palak Paneer/ cottage cheese in spinach sauce is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Palak Paneer/ cottage cheese in spinach sauce is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have palak paneer/ cottage cheese in spinach sauce using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Paneer/ cottage cheese in spinach sauce:
- Prepare 4 cups packed spinach
- Get 2 onions chopped
- Prepare 1/2 inch ginger cut to pieces
- Prepare 7-8 cloves garlic
- Make ready 2 green chillies
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon whole cumin
- Get 1 small tomato
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- Prepare 1/4 cup cream
- Take 1 teaspoon heaped turmeric powder
- Get 2 teaspoons oil for cooking
- Take 1 1/2 tablespoon coriander powder
- Prepare 1 tablespoon garam masala powder
- Prepare 1/4 cup cream
- Make ready 300 grams paneer
To make palak paneer, always spinach is blanched prior to making a puree. But if you are trying to make the best palak paneer, give it a try without Palak paneer recipe - Indian cottage cheese in simmered onion tomato spinach gravy. This palak paneer is one of the best you can make at home. Palak Paneer is very similar to Saag Paneer, but this recipe is slightly different, or so I was told while in India.
Steps to make Palak Paneer/ cottage cheese in spinach sauce:
- Blanch the spinach in hot water and then put immediately in ice-cold water. You can also use unblanched spinach if you like. Keep the spinach aside.
- Take a pan. Add oil to it. Once the oil is hot add whole cumin. As the cumin starts spluttering, add the chopped onions, ginger, tomato and green chilies.
- Also add the cumin powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder and salt and add a splash of water.
- Saute all the ingredients in the pan for about 5 minutes. Turn off the flame and let it cool.
- Transfer the blanched spinach and the ingredients of the pan to a mixer.
- Blend the mixture to a smooth paste.
- Add oil to the same pan and heat it. To the hot oil add the spinach mixture.
- You can add little water to transfer all the spinach from blender jar to the pan.
- Now add the paneer and garam masala to the pan and simmer the mixture till you achieve the desired consistency. Avoid overcooking.
- Now add the cream to the pan and turn off the flame. Serve with steamed rice, roti or naan.
In Hindi, palak means spinach, while saag is Palak Paneer - Pan-seared Paneer is bathed in a smooth and luscious spinach sauce infused with Indian spices. Palak Paneer (Spinach with Indian Cottage Cheese) is a popular North Indian side dish made with spinach sauce, paneer & spices. I make this Spinach Paneer curry at least once a week. Palak paneer is a tasty restaurant dish which is famous throughout India and Pakistan. It has Palak (Spinach) and Paneer which is Indian farmer's cheese This is basically thick curry sauce based on pureed spinach which is very aromatic.
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