Palak Paneer is such a staple in north India. It’s one of the most commonly made easy paneer dishes in Indian homes. Maybe because it was considered healthier than the other creamy versions of paneer, whatever the reason was, we would always be pleased when mom made it!
Paneer is a soft white cheese used in many dishes for wedding, part, and many occasion. Paneer could be considered as the best alternative to meat for a protein-rich diet food and best for vegetarian.It is rich in minerals like zinc, magnesium, and potassium, it might reduce muscle cramp. There is many paneer recipes available like paneer tikka masala, shahi paneer recipe, paneer makhani…
The spinach is blanched and then pureed. It’s then cooked with spices and simmered on low heat with paneer. The cream is added to cut down on the bitterness of the spinach leaves and also make them rich. If you don’t want to add cream, you can also use yogurt or milk.
Everyone has their own way of making this dish and honestly, I also make it in a different way every time I cook it.Let us start it quickly.
Palak Paneer Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 Cups palak
- 200 gm paneer
- 1 Tomato small size –
- 1 pices ginger -adrak
- 7-8 cloves Garlic -lahson
- 1 Onion small size
- 1 tbsp garam masala
- 3 salt to taste -namak
- 1 turmeric powder -haldi powder
- 1 Red chilli powder to taste -lal mirch powder
- 3-4 green chilli -hari merchi
- ½ cup cream use milk also
- 1 tbsp kasauri methi -sukhi methi
- 1 cup oil kam bhi lay sakty hai
- 1 cinamon stick dalchini ka tukda
- 1 tbsp Cumin seeds zeera
Instructions
- sab se phly palak ko ubalty pani me 2 se 3 minute rakho, phirunko nikal k thandy pani me dal do,thanda hone pr nikal k side me rakh lo. paneer ko namak laga kr halka lal hone tak fry karo agr nhi pasand toh fry nhi karo.
- ek pan me tomato, onion, adrak, lahson and hari merchi toh choty pices me cut kr k thoda oil me fry kar lo,phir isko nikla k thanda kar lo.
- ab thanda kiya hua palak or thande kiye hue hare masale ko ek sath mixture me pis lo
- Ab phir se pan ko garam kr 2 tbsp oil dalo phir dalchini or zeera dal k frey karlo ,phr barik pisa hua palak or haramasha add kr k 10 minut fry karo, phir paneer add kar k 2 minut fry karo ismy kasuri methi dal do,ab gas band kr k upper se cream dal do.
- palak paneer ready hai isko zeer rice ya naan se server karo.
