Recipe: Perfect Palak paneer

Palak paneer. Stir pureed spinach mixture into skillet with paneer. 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.

Serve with hot naan or roti. 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. It is very easy to prepare and can be made in so many ways. You can have Palak paneer using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Palak paneer

1. It's 100 gram of paneer.
2. Prepare 1 cup of Palak.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter for shallow frying the paneer.
4. You need 1 tbsp of butter for tomato onion gravy.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter for palak paneer.
6. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.
7. You need 2 of big cardamom.
8. You need 3 of Cloves.
9. Prepare 2 of black pepper.
10. Prepare 1 cup of Tomato chopped.
11. It's 1 of onion chopped.
12. Prepare 2 of Green chopped.
13. It's 1 tbsp of Garlic ginger paste.
14. It's 1 tbsp of Red chilli powder.
15. You need 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.
16. You need 1 tsp of Coriander powder.
17. You need To taste of Salt.
18. You need 2 tbsp of Fresh cream.
19. You need of For serving.
20. It's As needed of Tandoori roti.
21. You need of For garnishing.
22. It's As needed of Onion.
23. You need As needed of Grated paneer.
24. Prepare 1 tsp of Fresh Cream.

This is an easy and healthy palak paneer recipe which I finally arrived at after trying so many other recipes. 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 a quintessential North Indian vegetarian dish made with cottage cheese and fresh spinach.

Palak paneer step by step

1. In one pan heat the butter,add paneer and shallow fry it for 1 minute.
2. Blanch the palak in hot water for 2 minutes,then immerse in ice cold water, drain completely,cool this completely and make puree.
3. Heat butter in pan,add chopped onion,tomato,green chilli and saute for 2-3 minutes,add pinch Salt and red chilli powder,mix it well,cool it completely and make puree.
4. In another pan heat butter add bay leaf,black pepper,cloves,long cardamom add ginger garlic paste and tomato onion puree cook it for 2-3 minutes add red chilli powder,turmeric powder,Coriander powder and salt mix it well,add palak puree cook for a minute and add paneer mix it well.
5. Add fresh cream and mix it,Served in another bowl garnish with grated paneer and cream and onion,Served it with tandoori roti.

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 one of the most popular paneer dishes. 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.