Palak Paneer Recipe / A Perfect Restaurant Style Recipe With Special Tips

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Palak Paneer Recipe / A Perfect Restaurant Style Recipe

Palak Paneer is a very healthy nourishing & mouth-watering dish from north Indian cuisine. A creamy spinach gravy with the paneer sauteed in Punjabi tadka is a perfect restaurant style recipe.

The spinach leaves along with the tender stalk are taken in this recipe. They are then blanched in boiling water. This is a very important step as it helps spinach to retain its color. Secondly I have used butter and oil for frying the tadka as when butter is used along with oil, the oil prevents the browning of butter.

To give the gravy a creamy feel some fresh cream is added, you can also add in some cashew nuts paste to make it more richer in taste. However I like it without cashew nuts paste. Also the water should be added as per the required consistency. I like to have palak paneer with rice so the mentioned quantity was sufficient for me.

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Some tips for this recipe of Palak Paneer are mentioned after the method.

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Ingredients:

1 bunch Spinach

8 Paneer pieces

2 tbsp Oil

2 tbsp Butter

1 Onion (finely chopped)

1 tsp Garlic (finely chopped)

1 tsp Ginger (finely chopped)

1 Green Chilli (finely chopped)

1 tsp Cumin seeds

½ tsp Garam masala powder

½ tsp Red Chilli powder

¼ cup Water

2 tbsp Fresh Cream

Salt

Water for boiling Spinach

Method:

Wash and clean the spinach leaves thoroughly. Also take the tender stalk along with the leaves.

Boil enough water in a pan. Put in the spinach leaves and blanch them for 5 min.

boil water

add spinach

boil for 5 min

After 5 minutes the spinach would change its color. As soon as the spinach starts to change its color transfer the leaves into ice cold water. This is done as it helps to retain the green color.

starts to change color

transfer to ice cold water

Make a puree of this blanched spinach along with ¼ cup water. Adjust water as per the consistency required.

In a pan heat 2 tbsp oil and 2 tbsp butter. Let the butter melt.

let butter melt

Add in 1 tsp Cumin seeds.

add cumin seeds

When the cumin seeds starts releasing aroma put in 1 onion finely chopped. Saute till translucent.

add onion

Further include the chopped ginger, garlic, green chilli and continue frying on low to medium heat till it turns brown.

add ginger, garlic, green chilli

saute till brown

Further add in the ½  tsp Garam masala powder and ½ tsp red chilli powder. Mix well and stir fry for a minute on low heat.

add spices

stir fry

Add in the 8 paneer pieces and stir fry for a minute. 

add paneer

stir fry

Add in the spinach puree. Mix well and simmer for 5 minutes.

add spinach puree

Now its time to put in 2 tbsp of fresh cream and salt. Mix well.

add fresh cream and salt

mix well

The restaurant style Palak Paneer is ready.

Palak Paneer Recipe / A Perfect Restaurant Style Recipe

Serve hot with any Indian bread of your choice. It also goes well with Jeera rice and also Plain steamed rice.

Tips:

Wash and clean the spinach leaves thoroughly

Do not blanch the spinach leaves for long.

Add water to the spinach puree as per the consistency needed.



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