Palak Paneer

Ingredients

Paneer / cottage cheese – 250gms (cubed)

Spinach – 2 bunches

Cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Big Onion – 1 (chopped)

Tomato – 1 (chopped)

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbspn

Kasuri methi leaves – 1 tbspn

Green chilly – 2 nos (slited)

Garam masala powder – 1 tspn

Butter – 3 tbspn

Fresh cream – 1 tbspn

Salt to taste

Method

♥ Blanch spinach in 1 cup of water in a vessel and boil it for 5 min. Let it cool and grind it into fine spinach puree.

♥ Fry the cubed paneer in 1 tbspn butter and keep it aside.

♥ In a frying pan, add butter and melt it.

♥ Add in cumin seeds and cook it for a min.

♥ Now add chopped onions and sauté till it turns golden brown.

♥ Then add ginger garlic paste, green chillies and cook for 5 mins.

♥ Add chopped tomato and sauté till oil separates.

♥ Now add spinach puree and cook it for 10 mins without covering the pan.

♥ Now add garam masala powder, kasuri methi leaves and required amount of salt to taste.

♥ Add little water to gravy to get semi thick consistency if needed.

♥ Add in the fried paneer cubes and cook for 10 mins in low flame.

♥ Add a dollop of fresh cream and mix it well before switch off the flame.

♥ Serve hot with rotis or steamed white rice.