Spinach (Palak)-Paneer Combo

Name: How to cook Spinach (Palak)-Paneer Combo - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 10-servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

JollyAbraham

Spinach (Palak)-Paneer Combo

Recently I could harvest a lot of spinach from my veg-garden. I love spinach so much, as it is highly nutritious as well as tasty. I tried mixing it with Paneer without loosing the vitamin value to make an excellent side dish for chappathis,roties,poori etc. This dish is not only highly nutritious but is a wonderful blend of taste ,texture and flavour....

Ingredient

Food ration :

10-servings

Cooking time :

10 mins

200 gms

Spinach palak or

200 gms

Paneer cubes

2 nos

green chillies

4 nos

garlic cloves

1 tbsp

Ginger chopped

2 tbsps

oil

1 tbsps

ghee

3/4 cup

onions chopped

1/2 tsp

turmeric powder

3/4 cup

Tomato grated or pulp

1/2 tsp

jeerakam

1 tsp

garam masala

2 tbsps

fresh cream / butter

1 tbsp

fenugreek leaves

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Clean the spinach thoroughly well in running water.Now the blanching of the leaves is made as follows. Boil 3 cups of water and put the spinach in the boiling water for 3-4 minutes.Now drain out the water and put the leaves into ice cold water for refreshing the leaves.Now grind the leaves to a smooth paste adding a pinch of salt and one green chilly.Keep it aside

* Step 2

Gently saute the paneer pieces in 1 tbsp of ghee till it is slighly brown and keep aside.

* Step 3

Now pour the oil to a pan and saute the jeerakam first, followed by chopped onions, grated -ginger, garlic and one green chilly one by one. Add the turmeric powder, tomato pulp and salt to taste.Mix well and saute till the mixture leaves oil. Add spinach puree with 3 tbsps of water and cook for 2 minutes. Now add the garam masala and 2 tbsps of fresh cream (butter) followed by the fried paneer pieces.

* Step 4

Mix everything well and take out from stove.Decorate with fenugreek leaves or pomegranate.Delicious veggie is ready.Serve Hot with rotis or chappathi.

* Step 5

Hints :I have mixed red and green spinach and hence the colourof the dish is reddish brown. But for pure green colour use palak or green spinach. You can also add 1/2 tsp chilly powder if you need the veggie to be more spicy.

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