Palak Paneer (Punjabi style)

Palak Paneer (Punjabi style)
Ingredients -
Palak leaves - Spinach
Paneer or cottage cheese
Garlic, ginger & green chillies
Finely chopped onion
Chopped 🍅 Tomato
1 tablespoon of cumin seeds, 2 cloves,
2 - 3 Bay leaves, 2 - 4 black peppercorn, kasuri methi
I tablespoon of Kashmiri red chilli powder
1 teaspoon of cumin powder
1 tablespoon of coriander powder
1 teaspoon of tumeric powder
Salt to taste
Firstly, Wash & blanch the spinach or Palak leaves, put the blanched palak/ spinach into cold water, and drain the water completely grinded into puree. Keep the Palak puree aside
Crush & make garlic, ginger & green chillies paste with mortar & pestle
Cut the paneer or cottage cheese into small cubes & keep it aside, you could use paneer cubes by itself or
In a small pan, shallow fry it with oil & keep it aside, you could soak the fried paneer cubes into the luke warm water
In a hot wok, pour in oil, add in Bay leaves, cloves, peppercorns, cumin seeds, and fry
Then add in garlic, ginger & green chillies paste into it and fry it well, then add in kasuri methi, add in chopped onions, fry well until translucent, then add in red kashmiri chilli powder, cumin powder & fry it for sometime then add in chopped tomatoes 🍅 & fry it for a while, add in salt as per your taste, after that add in Palak puree, add some water to adjust the consistency, let it come to a nice boil, stir in between and finally add in fried , soaked paneer or cottage cheese. Stir it softly, and once it comes a boil. It is ready.
Enjoy your Palak Paneer with roti or steamed Basumati Rice

[@skqasim]

Healthy n tasty 😋
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[@Rekha_Starshine]

Thank you

[@mohanrao6]

Correct spelling first its not Spanish but spinach