Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, palak paneer. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Palak paneer is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Palak paneer is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Palak paneer recipe - Palak is the Hindi word for spinach and paneer is Indian cottage cheese. So this dish is nothing but Indian cottage cheese simmered in a smooth creamy & delicious spinach gravy. green coloured palak curry is palak paneer with paneer cubes, garam masala and other spices. 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook palak paneer using 12 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak paneer:
- Make ready 250 grams spinach leaves
- Make ready 3 cups Boil water
- Prepare 8-10 ice cubes
- Make ready 1 inch chopped ginger
- Prepare 1-2 chili peppers
- Take 2 tablespoons oil (or ghee or butter)
- Take 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Prepare as required small to medium-sized tej patta (Indian bay leaf)
- Prepare 1/3 cup finely chopped onions
- Get 1/3 cup chopped tomatoes
- Take 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder, ½ teaspoon red chili powder
- Prepare 200 to 250 grams paneer cubes
Palak Paneer is likely the most popular paneer dish from North India. Creamy spinach with tasty paneer makes a delicious main dish. This recipe was one of my first published recipes on YouTube. Palak paneer is a popular north Indian side dish for flat breads.
Steps to make Palak paneer:
- Using a colander or strainer, rinse the palak or spinach leaves (250 grams or 0.55 pounds), very well in running water.
- Boil 3 cups water in a pan, microwave or electric heater. Add ¼ tsp salt to the hot water and stir. Then add the spinach leaves to the hot water. Let the spinach leaves sit in the water for about 1 minute. If doing this on a stove-top, be sure to remove the pan from the hot burner
- After 1 minute, strain the spinach leaves.
- Immediately add the palak or spinach leaves in a pan or bowl containing ice cold water. This method helps in preserving the green color of the spinach. Just add 8 to 10 ice cubes to 3 cups water to get cold water. Allow the spinach leaves to be in the cold water for a minute.
- Then drain the ice cold water. Add the spinach in a blender or grinder jar with 1 inch chopped ginger, (1 or 2 small to medium) garlic cloves and 1 or 2 chili peppers (green chillies). You can also use a hand-held immersion blender to make the puree.
- Make a smooth spinach puree. No need to add water while making the puree. Set the spinach puree aside
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil (or ghee or butter) in a pan or kadai (wok). Here I have used butter. If using butter, melt it on a low flame making sure that it does not brown.
- Add ½ teaspoon cumin seeds and let them splutter.
- Then add one small to medium-sized tej patta (Indian bay leaf).
- Add ⅓ cup finely chopped onions (1 small to medium sized onion)Sauté until the onions become golden.
- Then add 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic. Sauté till the raw aroma of garlic goes away. No need to brown the garlic.
- Add ⅓ cup chopped tomatoes (1 small or medium sized tomato).
- Stir and sauté the tomatoes until they soften.
- Once the tomatoes are softened and you see fat releasing from the sides of the mixture, then add ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder, ½ teaspoon red chili powder (or cayenne pepper or paprika) and a pinch of asafoetida (hing). You can find asafoetida at your local spice store or on amazon, but if you don’t have it, you can skip it.
- Mix very well.Then add the palak (spinach) puree. - - Add about ½ cup of water or as required. Mix and stir again.
- Simmer the gravy for 6 to 7 minutes or more until the palak (spinach) is cooked. Season with salt. The gravy or sauce will have also thickened by now.
- Stir and add ¼ to ½ teaspoon garam masala powder
- Stir again and then add the paneer cubes (200 to 250 grams cottage cheese). I have added the paneer cubes directly to the gravy. But you can also lightly pan-fry the paneer cubes in some oil until they are lightly browned and then add them to the palak gravy. In this case, you don’t need to cook the paneer further.
- Mix very well and switch off the heat.
- Lastly add 2 tablespoons low-fat cream. I used Amul brand cream. If using heavy whipping cream, then add 1 tablespoon of it. You can also add 1 teaspoon crushed kasuri methi (dry fenugreek leaves) at this step, however this is optional.
- Stir gently again so that the cream gets incorporated in the gravy uniformly.
- Serve palak paneer hot with some roti, naan or paratha or cumin rice or ghee rice.
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