Palak Paneer ( spinach and cottage cheese )

PALAK PANEER

This is a very popular dish which is enjoyed with  both roti and rice. Palak has got many benefits and should be consumed but young and old.

Generally at home and specially in Bengal this dish is prepared without onion and garlic . But today I will show you how you can get the taste like what we get in Restaurants.

• First I boiled 5 bunches of spinach ( palak) with 5 green chillies 
• Added 2cups of water and 1tsp of salt.
• After boiling let it cool down.
• Then make it into a paste in your mixer grinder and keep it aside.

• In the meantime sauté 200 gms of cottage cheese in a pan/ kadai with 1 Tbsp of ghee.

• Now in the cooker added 1 Tbsp of ghee 
• Add 1 tsp of jeera(cumin seeds) and 2 bay leaves.
• Fry for a minute.

• Then add 1 big onion , finely chopped. 
• Along with it fry 1 tsp of ginger-garlic paste.
• Fry till the raw smell goes away.

• Now add 2 tsp of kasuri methi.
• Add 1tsp of salt and sugar.
• Adjust salt according to your taste .
• I don't add chilli powder as I use green chili .
• Stir it for a minute and then add the spinach paste along with water. 
• Cook in medium flame for 15 minutes. 
• Now add the fried cottage cheese ( paneer).
• Finally add 1tsp of garam masala powder and 1tsp of ghee from top.
• Stir well and turn off the stove/gas.

Palak(Spinach) chicken

 Hi friends!!

Recently I posted about how to make Anda palak (spinach with egg). I had quite a lot of spinach curry/ spinach paste left over from that dish. So I thought why to waste a so much spinach! & decided to put it to good use...

This is what I did :

I took 500 gms of boneless chicken . Marinated it with hung curd salt and paprika powder for 1 hr. Took a pan added 2 tbsp of butter and fried these marinated chicken with few flakes of garlic chopped nicely. Cooked on slow flame till oil separates. Approximately about 30 mins.. Then added the leftover spinach paste and it's done. 

I didn't add further onion or ginger garlic paste as it already had enough when I prepared the egg spinach. While serving I added 2-3 tsp of fresh Dairy cream.

Its tastes great if eaten with naan, roti or paratha (Indian flattened bread)

                      ~Enjoy~

Eggs in ; Spinach(andapalak)

Ingredients: 

-4 bundles of spinach

-1 bundle of corriander

-2 tbsp of kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves )

-4-5 green chillies

-Boiled eggs

-one onion chopped

-1tbsp of ginger-garlic paste

-A pinch of garam masala powder

-1 tsp of ghee and salt according to your taste.  

Method: Boil the spinach, corriander and green chilly . Then add just a small cup of water to it as the leaves itself contain a lot of water in them. (If you want you can also Boil the eggs along with these just to save gas...;-)

Put these aside and let it cool for sometime. Meanwhile fry the eggs and keep them aside. Ater they cool down to room temparature churn these in the mixer grinder and make it into a paste.

Take a separate pan add 1 tbsp of ghee or butter and fry chopped onion and gingergarlic paste ...when the colour of onion changes add kasuri methi ..now add the paste and let it boil till the required consistency is acquired..lastly add the garammasala. Then add the fried eggs in the end. Serve it with roti, naan or paratha. (Indian bread)

~Enjoy.🍀

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