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Palak Paneer Recipe

Palak Paneer is one of the most famous North Indian recipe. This recipe contains cottage cheese cubes covered by spinach gravy
As the name suggests the main ingredients of this recipes are Palak / spinach and cottage cheese cubes. Other ingredients includes onions, tomato, green chilies and some other dry spices.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: indian gravy recip, palak paneer recipe
Servings: 3 People
Calories: 280kcal

Ingredients

  • 200 gm Palak/Spinach
  • 200 gm Paneer/Cottage Cheese
  • 2 Tomatoes
  • 2 Onions
  • 2 Green chilies
  • 5 inch Ginger
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 1 tbsp Butter
  • 2 tbsp Cooking oil
  • 1 tsp Red chilli powder
  • 1 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp Garam masala powder
  • 10 Cashew
  • Salt to taste
  • 20 gm Paneer/Cottage cheese For garnishing

Instructions

  • Take a stainless steel pot / Patila, add 3-4 cups water in it and let it boil.
  • Add 200 Palak/spinach in it and let it boil for 2 minutes
  • Now take out the spinach / Palak and with palta/turner and immediately transfer it into a cold water
  • Now take a pan and heat it
  • Add 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp oil and saute
  • Add paneer cubes / cottage cheese cubes in the pan and let it fry for 3 minutes
  • Now add 1 tablespoon cumin seeds,ginger, garlic and green chillies in the frying pan and saute
  • Add chopped tomatoes, chopped onions and a little bit of salt in it and saute 
  • Then cover the pan with lid for 2 minutes 
  •  Now take out the mixture in a blending jar
  •  Also add Palak/spinach in the blending jar along with the mixture
  • Add cashews in the blending jar as well
  • Now blend everything and make puree of it (add a little bit of water if needed)
  • Now take a pan again and heat it
  • Add cooking oil in pan
  •  Add the puree in it 
  • Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder, salt to taste and saute
  •  Then add paneer cubes / cottage cheese cubes and saute
  •  Cook for 2 minutes
  •  Your tasty and zesty palak paneer recipe is ready.  
  • Garnish it with grated Paneer/Cottage cheese

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Notes

  • Don't boil spinach for more that 2 minutes. Also immediately transfer the spinach into cold water after blanching/boiling (you can add ice cubes in water as well).  This is to maintain green colour of the palak paneer recipe.
  • Add garam masala less if you want greener colour.
  • Instead of adding 10 cashews in the blending jar while preparing the puree, add 4-5 cashews for super green colour of the recipe.
  • You can serve the palak paneer recipe with roti, naan or even with rice or jeer rice.