Easy Palak Paneer

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 bunches fresh spinach
• 1 large onion
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 green chili pepper
• 2 tablespoons ginger
• 6 -8 ounces paneer cheese (approximately)
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon turmeric
• 2 teaspoons coriander
• 1 teaspoon garam masala
• 8 tablespoons heavy cream (or while milk)
• oil or ghee

Recipe

• 1 chop up spinach. chop it up well and toss it in a big pot with a little water to shrink it.cook it on med high for about 3 minutes
• 2 while the spinach is shrinking, cut up your onion and put it in a bowl.
• 3 dump your spinach into a collander in the sink after it shrinks down and let it be.
• 4 steam two tomatoes on high until the skin cracks (blanched) should take about 5-7 minutes
• 5 while the tomatoes are blanching, seed and chop up your chile and chop up your ginger. cut em up really small. this is a cheat for mincing!
• 6 put the ginger and chiles chopped up into a bowl together and set it near the spinach.
• 7 pour paprika, cumin, turmeric, coriander and garam masala into a bowl together and have it handy.
• 8 tomatoes should be blanched by now so peel off the skin and chop them into about four pieces each.
• 9 get a big pan and heat some (apx 2 tbs) oil on high. when it's hot add your onion and cook for about two minutes.
• 10 dump in you ginger/ chile mix and stir up. savor that aroma and turn heat down to medium immediately.
• 11 add your spices and stir it up. keep stirring until your onions are evenly coated with spices.stir it around for about two or three minutes.
• 12 add your spinach to the pot and stir it all together.
• 13 add your tomatoes. stir it up.
• 14 i know it doesn't look like much right now, but it will be great, i promise!
• 15 give it about 5 minutes keeping it on med- med high.
• 16 take this time to chop up your paneer cheese (which i get from whole foods) but can be made from scratch if need be. i cut my paneer into small cubes.
• 17 check on your pan -- add a little water if you need to and turn heat down to med low.
• 18 give your mixture a good stir and add paneer cheese.
• 19 let it simmer on med low for about 10-15 mins -- make sure your mixture doesn't stick by adding a little more water if you need to. sometimes i need to, sometimes i don't- go figure!
• 20 add your cream/ milk and let it simmer for 10 more mins on low.
• 21 enjoy! serve with rice or naan.