Palak Paneer | Spinach With Indian Cottage Cheese | Restaurant style palak paneer

  Cooking Time: 45 min (for 2 peoples)

Ingredients:

Item	Quantity
Palak or Spinach	3 Cups
Paneer	250 Grams
Gram flour or Besan	1 and 1/2 Tablespoon
Garlic cloves	8 to 9 Cloves small size
Cumin Seeds	1/2 Tablespoon
Green chilli	4 In quantity
Onion	3 In quantity
Tomato	2 Medium in size or 1 big
Cashew nuts	4 in quantity
Ghee or butter	1 Tablespoon
Sesame Seeds or til	1/2 Tablespoon
Coriander powder	1 Tablespoon
Ginger paste	1 Teaspoon
Bay leaf	1 and 1/2 leaf
Black pepper powder	1 Teaspoon
Curd or yogurt	1/2 cup
Oil	5 Tablespoons
Salt	As per test
Chopped Coriander	5 Tablespoons

Recipe: 

1. Let's start with making our gravy first, slice the onion, green chilli, tomato and spinach roughly, cause we are going to grind it in next stage, so no more worries about the size.
2. Take a pan to add 2 tablespoons of oil in it. After heating up the oil add cumin seeds, garlic cloves, green chilli and onion. Saute it well till onion turns brown, add tomato and cook it till tomato become soft.
3. Within this stage, you are getting lots of spicy smell from it. So add the curd and cashew nuts in it. While adding the curd make sure you are working on lower flame and you keep stirring it continuously, otherwise curd gets sour.
4. Mix it well and add palak or spinach in it. We need to make it soft, basically, it will get reduce in quantity and become half. So after adding spinach just cover the pan for a min.
5. After cooling down the mixture, grind it well with the addition of coriander in grinding jar. 
6. Now final step of cooking, heat up the pan and add 3 tablespoons of oil in it. Add bay leaf, gram flour or besan stir it well and add sesame seeds or til, ginger paste and paneer cubes.
7. Add the palak puree, black pepper powder and salt as per test. We need to add a half cup of water in it with some ghee on top of it.
8. Cover it for 3 to 4 min on low flame and your palak paneer recipe is ready to serve.  

Tips:

1) Add some thick cream and garam masala, while adding spinach gravy to get the best results.

2) Add a teaspoon of sugar will balance the recipe if curd is little sour. 

This healthy dish contains about 390 calories in a serving bowl. In India, people used to have it with roti, naan or rice. It's the most famous Panjabi dish and you can get that in any Indian restaurant.  

Spinach belongs to the amaranth family and is related to beets and quinoa. What's more, it's considered very healthy, as it's loaded with nutrients and antioxidants. But, for making the balance of it, we have to add curd in it.

Kids hate a spinach a lot😣, but having this kind of paneer recipe is the best option to make them eat the spinach. It is the testy recipe and having it along with lachha paratha is so much fun. You can check this recipe, which we have shared with you earlier.

Let's take a look at paneer, it is a fresh cheese common in the Indian subcontinent. It is an unaged, non-melting soft cheese made by curdling milk, with a fruit- or vegetable-derived acid, such as lemon juice. 

Paneer very good for health as it contains lots of protein, it is also a rich source of conjugated linoleic acid. This fatty acid helps in increasing the fat burning process in the body.

In most of the restaurant, it is getting served with some cream on top of it, for garnishing. It looks so delicious and makes you feel hungry. In all over India, people loves to eat palak paneer and prefer to have it in the restaurant only.

In short palak paneer is the perfect combination of protein and nutrients, but people think, it's very hard to make it at home. That's why, we are here, with some easy steps and you can enjoy Palak paneer at your home. 

Hope you guys will enjoy this recipe at your home by yourself. We know you are gonna love it so much.