Tasty Palak paneer recipe - Cottage cheese in Spinach gravy

Palak paneer is one of the healthy food you can prepare at home. This is very easy and it will not take much time to prepare.

To prepare homemade fresh paneer refer the post "Home made fresh Paneer - Indian cottage cheese"

Ingredients :-

Palak - 1 bunch
Jeera - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
salt - as required
Green chilli - 2
Onion - 1
Tomato -1
ginger - 1 small piece


Preparation :-

Remove stems and clean the palak leaves with lots of water and keep it aside. The palak should be cleaned thoroughly as there are chances of dirt and mud get stuck on the leaves.

Heat a kadai with little ghee/oil in it. Add jeera and let it splutter for a minute. Add the cleaned palak leaves and cover the kadai. Stir it in between and after 3-4 minutes you can see all the palak turned to dark green color and the volume gets reduced. Switch off the flame.

Now let this cool for sometime then grind it with green chillies.

Now grind tomato, ginger, onion together and keep it aside. Heat oil in a kadai and add the onion-tomato paste and saute well for 5 minutes. Once the oil gets separated add the ground palak leaves to this and saute well till oil separates. Cook for 5 minutes and check that the raw smell/taste of the palak is not there.

Add some water and cover it and cook well. Add palak cubes to this mix and cook for some more time. Once done switch off the flame and serve hot with roti/chapathi.

Tips:-
To make this gravy rich just add some milk cream once cooked.
Palak can be fried before putting into gravy.