Hi friends, today I am going to share my recipe of Palak Paneer with all of you. Out of 100 people atleast 80 of us love palak paneer for its heavenly taste. I have been trying this recipes since i was child. After ages , i could now make a tasty palak paneer. So shall we start with it...
Ingredients:
Fresh Spinach - 1 bunch.
Paneer( Cottage Chees) - 150 gms.
Onions - 2 medium sized in number.
Garlic Paste - 1 and 1/2 tblsp.
Tomatoes- 2-3 ripe.
Fresh Cream - 3-4 tblsp.
Green Chillies -2-3 ( depending upon the hottness).
Jeera - 1 tsp.
Kasuri Methi - 1 tbsp.
Garam Masala- 1tbsp.
Sugar to taste.
Red Chilli Powder - according to taste.(optional)
Oil/Ghee - for cooking and frying the paneer.
Charcoal - 1 in number.
The Method:
1. Wash the spinach and get it blanched in a salty water for 2-3 min.
2. Drain the spinach and run it under cold water, remove excess water.
3. Grind spinach and green chillies into a smooth paste.
4. On the other hand get the paneers fried in oil.
(TIP: drop the fried paneers immediately into cold water, inorder to keep it soft)
5. In a pan heat oil/ghee ( ghee adds to the taste) and add jeera to it. Let the jeera splutter and then add the pureed onions. Fry the onions till golden brown till oil seperates.
6. Now add the garlic paste and saute for 30 secs. Add the pureed tomatoes, red chilli powder and cook till the oil seperates.
7. Add the kasuri methi (grind it in between your palms to liven its fragrance) and cook again for few seconds.
8. Pour in the pureed spinach along with salt, sugar and cream and let it boil.
9. Now add the fried paneers and garam masala. cook for few seconds and switch of the burner.
10. Now the magic step - heat a charcoal on a gas till its red hot.
Place this charcoal on a small steel plate and safely keep it in the pan of palak paneer.
Now add a tsp of ghee/oil on the charcoal and immediately close the lid of the pan.
11. Hot and delicious Palak Paneer is ready to be eaten with naan or roti or even rice.
2 comments:
hi again!
I tried this and after taking an hour it end up with surprise surprise .....Palak Peneer :P
earlier I used to follow generic recipe...
1. go to www.willys.se or www.ica.se
2. look for the item
3. huh.. dude job done!
Anyway, please come with some bengali special cuisine (i guess ZOOL)
-/sj
hi thanks for trying my recipe. :)
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