Recipe: Tasty Palak paneer

Palak paneer. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Palak Paneer is a popular Indian dish of Indian cottage cheese cubes in a mild, spiced smooth spinach sauce. This delicious creamy dish is made with fresh spinach leaves, paneer (firm cottage cheese), onions, tomatoes, herbs and spices. Palak paneer is one of the most loved North Indian dishes that's eaten with roti, paratha, garlic naan, Jeera rice, Ghee rice or even with plain basmati rice.

Ingredients of Palak Paneer Recipe: It is basically soft paneer cubes cooked in a smooth spinach curry. This recipe is very easy to cook and can be made for dinner parties as well. Palak Paneer is one of the most popular paneer dishes. You can cook Palak paneer using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Palak paneer

1. It's of paneer.
2. You need of onion.
3. It's of green chilli.
4. It's of spinach.
5. You need of Garlic.
6. It's of Ginger.
7. Prepare of garam masala.
8. Prepare of cumin seed.
9. It's of bay leaves.
10. You need of turmeric powder.
11. Prepare of red chilli powder.
12. You need of besan (chana dal flour).
13. Prepare of Salt.

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. Heat the oil in a frying pan and cook the paneer for a few minutes until crisp and golden on all sides.

Palak paneer instructions

1. Wash spinach first then boil 2-3 cup water add spinach boil for 2 min not more than that then wash it with cold water.
2. Then make spinach puree and cut the paneer as per choice shape.
3. Heat the grill pan or normal kadai fry the paneer as per your choice.
4. I had grilled the paneer in grill pan.
5. Heat the oil in a pan add chopped onion, garlic saute until light brown then remove from the oil take a mixi jaar add fried onion, garlic, then add green chilli and ginger make smooth paste.
6. Then again heat the same pan add cumin seed after crackle of cumin add bay leaf then add onion garlic ginger chilli paste saute for one min then add red chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala then 1 tsp besan mix it well together saute until masala separate from oil in medium flame.
7. Then add spinach puree then add salt to taste mix it well together cook for at least 5-6 min in medium flame.
8. Then add paneer mix it well together saute for one min then turn off the gas.
9. Palak paneer is ready to eat with rice, puri, naan, chapati etc.
10. Don't cover with lid the colour goes out of spinach.

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. After so many years of cooking, my family has decided my cooking skills have improved! Palak Paneer is a vegetarian dish originating from India consisting of paneer (Cottage Cheese) in a thick paste made from puréed spinach and seasoned with ginger, garlic and other spices.