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Lasooni Palak Paneer or Garlic Spinach Cottage Cheese Curry

Name: How to cook Lasooni Palak Paneer or Garlic Spinach Cottage Cheese Curry - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Kumkum Chatterjee

Lasooni Palak Paneer or Garlic Spinach Cottage Cheese Curry

#thc #thcweek12 #curry #tricolor22 Lasooni Palak Paneer or Garlic Spinach Cottage Cheese Curry is a delicious twist to regular Palak Paneer with a generous amount of garlic tempering. It is prepared with fresh paneer and spinach with roasted gramflour and some herbs and spices.It is an onion-tomato based North Indian style curry with loads of garlic and is rich in iron,fiber and protein.It is best served hot in lunch or dinner as a main course meal with tandoori roti, naan, lachha paratha or jeera rice.

Ingredient

Food ration :

3 servings

Cooking time :

30 minutes

200 gms

paneer cut into 1/2 inch cubes

500 gms

garden fresh spinach

onion chopped finely

1 tsp

ginger paste

1 tsp

garlic paste

tomato chopped

1 tbsp

coriander chopped

1/4

th tsp turmeric

1/4

th tsp red chilli powder

1 tsp

coriander powder

1 tbsp

roasted gramflour

1 tsp

kasoori methi

1.5 tbsp

heavy cream or malai

green chilli

1/4 tsp

asafoetida

2 tbsp

oil

dry red chilli

7-8 cloves

garlic sliced finely

1/2 tsp

red chilli powder

1/2 tsp

cumin seeds

1 tbsp

ghee (clarified butter)

To taste

salt

1/4 tsp

sugar

1 tbsp

lemon juice

green cardamoms

small stick cinnamon

cloves

1/2 tsp

garam masala

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

To make this garlic spinach cottage cheese curry, first boil water in a wok and blanch a bunch of spinach in this boiling water.Boil for 1 minute.Drain water and immerse the leaves in ice cold water to stop over cooking and retain the green colour.Reserve some spinach without boiling and chop it finely.

* Step 2

Cool and make a fine puree of blanched spinach and a tablespoon of chopped coriander with 1 green chilli and lemon juice.

* Step 3

Heat oil in a wok.Lightly saute the paneer cubes till light brown. Set aside.In the remaining oil,sprinkle cumin seeds and half crushed whole garam masala.When they crackle,add asafoetida(hing).Then add finely chopped onion and fry till light brown. Add chopped tomato and sprinkle salt and pinch of sugar to taste.Fry till tomato turns soft and mushy.Add ginger garlic paste,turmeric,red chilli powder and coriander powder.Fry till oil leaves sides.Add finely chopped spinach and saute for a minute.

* Step 4

Add kasoori methi,roasted gramflour and spinach puree.Add 2-3 tbsp water. Simmer for few minutes.Also add malai or heavy cream and garam masala.Toss till oil leaves sides.Gently fold in paneer cubes and cook for 2 minutes in low flame.

* Step 5

Place the palak(spinach) curry in a serving bowl.Sprinkle few paneer pieces on top.For tempering : Heat ghee (clarified butter) in a tadka pan.Add chopped garlic,1 dry red chilli and when they splutter,add red chilli powder.Immediately pour this tempering over the curry and serve this main course meal in lunch or dinner with tandoori roti,lachha paratha,naan or jeera rice and raita or salad.