Recipe- Rich And Creamy Palak Paneer

A very rich and creamy spinach curry loaded with soft and utterly delicious paneer pieces. This is one of the delicious spinach curry ever.

Palak Paneer is Indian style spinach and cottage cheese curry served in most of the restaurants, hotels or Dhabas (roadside restaurant) and loved by all age groups. This is another dish from North Indian cuisine mainly from Punjab.

Ingredients

500 g spinach leaves
150 gm cottage cheese /paneer cubes
4 tomatoes
7-8 garlic cloves chopped
4-5 green chillies or as per your taste
2 ? ginger piece
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
A pinch of asafetida
4 to 5 tablespoon clarified butter
Water as required

Spices

1 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 teaspoon coriander powder
1 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 teaspoon garam masala
salt to taste

Method

* Wash and cook spinach leaves with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 cup of water until 1 whistle or else just cook it in a pan for 5-7 minutes till tender. Cool and blend to make a purée.

* Boil water and add tomatoes in it. Let it rest in hot water for 5 minutes , remove from water , cool and peel the skin .Set aside.

* Heat clarified butter in a wok and shallow fry the cottage cheese, keep it aside.

* Into the same ghee add garlic , green chilli and ginger in it. Sauté for a minute and then drain out. Let the clarified butter remain in the wok.

* Add tomatoes and fried garlic-ginger in a blender and make a fine paste of it.

* Add cumin seeds and asafetida in the clarified butter, fry for a minute. Add the tomato paste prepard in the step given above, in to the clarified butter in a wok. Cook for 5 minutes.

* Add all spices and salt , stir and cook for 5 minutes till clarified butter comes out from from edges. Add spinach purée and cook for 20-30 minutes on low heat with covered lid.

* At last add fried paneer , stir and cook for 1 minute.

* Remove from heat and serve hot with chapati ,Paratha or Naan.