Punjabi Style Palak Paneer

Punjabi Style Palak Paneer

Palak (spinach) paneer is delicious as well as beneficial. Mostly children don't like to eat palak, but palak paneer, children also like to eat it. Palak paneer can serve with Naan, Simple Chapati, Rice.

Preparation time:     25 minutes
Cooking time:    20 minutes
Total time:    45 minutes
Type:    Main Course
Cuisine:    Indian
Servings:    4 people

INGREDIENTS:

• 250 gram---palak (spinach) (washed & roughly chopped)

• 200 gram ---paneer (cottage cheese) (cut into medium sized cubes)

• 1 big---onion (roughly chopped)

• 2---tomatoes (roughly chopped)

• 4-5 cloves---garlic (peeled & crushed)

• 2---green chili (chopped)

• 1 inch---ginger (grated)

• 2 tsp---curd

• 4 tsp---fresh cream

• 2 tsp---butter

• 1 tsp---oil

• 1 tsp---cumin seeds (jeera)

• 1 tsp---lal mirch powder (red chili powder)

• 1/4 tsp---haldi (turmeric

• 1/2 tsp---garam masala

• According to taste---salt

METHOD:

• Boil five cups of water with 1/2 tsp salt, put palak in boiling water.

• Remove it from boiling water after 3 minutes and keep it in sieve and wash with cold water.

• Now grind the palak and prepare its puree, put the palak puree aside.

• Heat 1 tsp oil in the pan, add garlic, onion, ginger, green chili, tomatoes and cook it for 2 minutes, grind it.

• Prepare fine paste of it.

• Heat 2 tsp butter in the pan on the medium flame.

• Add cumin seeds, let the cumin seeds crack.

• Add paste (onion, garlic etc), cook the paste until it starts leaving the oil.

• Put palak puree and mix it well, keep stirring it occasionally.

• Cook it for 4 minutes, add red chili powder, turmeric powder and salt, mix it.

• Add fresh cream, cook it for a while.

• Put paneer cubes, mix it gently.

• Add curd if the gravy is thick, cook it for 1 minute.

• Switch off the flame.

• Put it's in the serving bowl and garnish with fresh cream.

TIPS:

• Add a little salt to the boiling water, it will keep the green color of the palak retained.

• Put curd if the gravy is thick.