Saturday, May 26, 2012

Palak Paneer


Ingredients:
Chopped Palak - 2-3 cups
Paneer cubes
Onion - 1
Tomato - 2
Ginger - Small piece
Garlic - Small piece
Green chilli - 3
Salt
Butter - 4 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala - 1/4 tsp
Red chilli - 2
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Cashews - 1/2 cup

Method:
  1. Pressure cook tomato,onion,green chilli,ginger and garlic, once it gets cooled grind it to fine paste.
  2. In a vessel add little water and chopped palak, cook for 10 min
  3. Grind the palak to fine paste.(Drain out excess water before grinding)
  4. Grind coconut,red chilli and cashews with very little water and make fine paste.
  5. Take a heavy pan,add butter, once butter melts add paste from step 1 and fry for 2 min
  6. Now add palak paste and salt, cook for 2 min
  7. Add paste from step 4 and continue cooking for 5 min
  8. Now add garam masala and cardamom, cook for 1 min and switch off stove
  9. Add paneer cubes just before serving (Paneer can be shallow fried with little oil)
Serves: for 3