Palak Paneer (Spinach and cottage cheese)

Ingredients: 

   

500gms Fresh Palak (Saag)
100gms Paneer
2 Onions grated Ginger, Garlic paste
5-6 tbsp oil
1 tsp pure ghee
Garam masala to taste
Red chili powder to taste
1 tsp cumin powder
Salt To Taste

 How to make sag (palak) paneer:

  • Clean and wash palak (spinach) nicely.

Boil the spinach in water and cool it.

  • Now mash it in a mixer.
  • Heat oil in a kadai. Add ginger-garlic paste and stir-fry for a minute.
  • Now add onions and fry till golden brown.
  • Add all spices except red chilli powder.
  • Now add the spinach (palak) and little water if needed and cook for 4-5 minutes.
  • Cut paneer into pieces (Paneer can be fried to golden brown in a seperate pan or can be used as it is).
  • Add Paneer pieces to the gravy and cook until done.
  • Take out in a bowl.
  • Just before serving, heat pure ghee in a small pan.
  • Hold the pan over bowl, add chili powder and immediately pour on the indian palak paneer.
  • Caution: Don’t allow chili powder to burn .

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.