Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, palak paneer. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Stir pureed spinach mixture into skillet with paneer. Place the colander in the sink. Heat the milk in a large non-reactive saucepan over medium. Palak Paneer is a popular Indian dish of Indian cottage cheese cubes in a mild, spiced smooth spinach sauce.
Palak Paneer is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Palak Paneer is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook palak paneer using 18 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Paneer:
- Prepare 1-2 bunches Palak (Spinach) - chopped
- Make ready 200 g Paneer - cut into 1 inch cubes as well as some grated
- Prepare 1 Tomato (medium sized) - chopped
- Get 1 Red Onion (medium sized) - chopped
- Make ready 5-6 strands Coriander leaves
- Get 1/3 inch Ginger (grated)
- Get 3-4 Garlic cloves (thin sliced)
- Get 1-2 Serrano peppers- chopped
- Take 1 Bay leaf
- Take 1/2 tbsp Cumin seeds
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp Yogurt/Curd - whisked
- Take 1 tbsp Oil
- Prepare 1/3 tbsp Coriander powder
- Take 1/4 tbsp Cumin powder
- Take 1/3 tbsp Red Chilli powder
- Prepare 1 pinch Turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp - Salt (or to taste)
- Take 1 tbsp - Whipped cream
Palak paneer is a north Indian vegetarian curry with origins in the Punjab region. The dish is comprised of a spinach purée (palak is Hindi for spinach) and fresh-pressed cheese, with an aromatic blend of spices that includes ginger, garlic, and garam masala. Palak paneer is also sometimes called saag paneer. Palak Paneer is a quintessential North Indian vegetarian dish made with cottage cheese and fresh spinach.
Instructions to make Palak Paneer:
- Heat up a pan (medium heat) and add 1 tbsp oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add cumin seeds and let them splutter for about 10 seconds.
- Add bay leaf, grated ginger, sliced garlic cloves, and chopped serrano peppers and stir for about 30 seconds.
- Add chopped onion and salt, and stir until the onions turn pink to light brown. Caution: Don't overcook the onions to dark brown.
- Add chopped tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes soften up and become a bit mushy.
- Turn down the heat, and let the pan cool down a bit.
- Add whisked yogurt and spices (turmeric powder, red chili powder, cumin powder and coriander powder) and cook on low-medium heat until the mixture comes to a boil (bubbles on the side in yogurt). Keep stirring in between.
- Add chopped spinach and mix it well. Cook for a few minutes until the spinach wilts.
- Add coriander leaves to the mixture and cook for about a minute or two.
- Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool down.
- Blend the cooked mixture into a fine paste/puree.
- Pour the puree back to the pan (on low-medium flame) then add 3/4 tbsp whipped cream.
- Grate some paneer into the puree, and after about a minute add one inch cubes.
- Top off with some more (1/4 tbsp) whipped cream.
- Palak paneer is ready to serve!
Palak paneer is also sometimes called saag paneer. 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. Palak Paneer is a popular Indian dish made with cubes of cheese are simmered in a creamy spinach sauce infused with fragrant Indian spices.
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