Palak Paneer Recipe - Pure vegetarian dish - Old Indian Kitchen

How to cook Palak Paneer in an easy way - Old Indian Kitchen

Hello everyone, welcome back to your Old Indian kitchen.

Palak paneer is one of the best vegetarian dishes. In my childhood days, I used to take only non veg dishes. In those days, I burst into tears if I see only veg items 😜. But my elders always suggested me to take veg foods at least once in a week. When I grew up, I learned many positive things about vegetarian food and just fell in love with the wide varieties of naturally beautiful foods.

Now a days, I take veg food twice in a week 😀😀 and today is also my veg day and I am going to share this beautifully green "Palak Paneer ", the Thursday special dish. Be a vegetarian for at least once in a week and take the advantages of naturally rich food..😎 

Ingredients:

• Palak / Spinach 3 bunch.
• Fresh chopped  Onions 1 handful.
• Chili 2
• Fresh  chopped Garlic 2 tbsp
• Fresh ginger paste 1/4 tbsp
• Mustard oil /Refine oil 5 tbsp
• Turmeric 1 tbsp
• Salt
• Sugar
• One peeled potato
• Fresh soft paneer 60 grams.
• Butter 3 tbsp.
• Cumin powder 1 tbsp

Recipe:

1. Wash and clean the Palak leaves.
2. Place the leaves inside a pressure cooker with 1/2 of salt and sugar and 1/2 cup of water.
3. Cut the potato and add it with the Palak to boil them together.
   
4. Wait for two whistle sounds and turn it off.
5. Meanwhile cut the paneer into small pieces and fry them with 5 tbsp of oil in deep cooking pot.
6. While frying, add 1/4 of turmeric for nice color.
7. After two minutes take out all in a bowl.
   
8. Once pressure cooker releases all the pressure, open it slowly .
9. Take out the green leaves to a grinder jar without water,
10. Grind all the leaves until become smooth.
    
11. Now heat the deep cooking pot where you have fried the paneers.
12. Add the onions and garlic, ginger, chilies to the remaining oil.
13. Fry all together in low heat.
14. Add turmeric and cumin powder.
15. Stir them well.
16. Now add the boiled potato and press it with the ladle.
17. Crunch the potato into small pieces with the ladle.
18. Now add the green smooth Palak paste.
19. Stir them well.
    
20. After 3 to 4 minutes, just add the warm water from the cooker (the remaining water where all leaves are boiled).
21. Once dish start boiling, check the salt and add as per your requirement.
22. Now add the fried paneers and mix them well.
23. After 4 minutes of boiling, turn off the heat.
24. Add 3 tbsp of butter if you wish.
25. Serve warm with butter nun or chapati and enjoy.
    

Thank you.💖


Note:

We are using some basic ingredients in almost all the recipes. Here, we will try to mention all the benefits of each ingredient.

Jeera (cumin seed) benefits:
1. Jeera is beneficial for digestion
2. It Lowers cholesterol
3. It is Effective for diabetes
4. Jeera Boosts immunity
5. It helps in detoxing body
6. It is good for weight loss.
7. It is Good for liver protection


Dhaniya (coriander seed) benefits:
1. Dhaniya helps in UTI (Urinary Tract Infection)
2. It decrease Blood Pressure.
3. It fight food poisoning.
4. It improve cholestrol levels.
5. It is very Good for digestion
6. It helps protect against cancer.

Black Pepper powder benefits:
1.It assist in breakdooown of fat cells.
2.It helps to cure some skin disease.
3.It gives relief in  cold, cough.
4.It helps to fight against infections and insect bites.

Onion benefits:
1.Onion is a good source of vitamin C.
2.Onion improves the immunity system of human body.
3.Onion regulates the blood sugar.
4.Onion (raw onion)keep your heart healthy by reducing the production of bad cholestrol.
5.Onion is reducing the risk of gastric ulcers.

Garlic benefits:
1.Garlic is a natural blood purifier.
2.Garlic is good for reliefing cold and flu.
3.Garlic and mustard oil hot mixer is very good for massage.
4.It is very good for high blood pressure.
5.Garlic can prevent heart disease.
6.Garlic may help you live longer.

Ginger benefits: 
2.It is good for thyroid patients.
3.It helps reducing nausea.
4.It helps in food digestion.
5.It helps in reducing muscle pain.
6.Ginger is good home remedy for cold and cough.

Pach Phoron and benefits:
 Panch Phoron is a combination of five spices in a equal amount, named fenugreek seed, nigella seed or kalonji, cumin seed, black mustard seed and fennel seed.
Benifits:
1.You will get benifits of five seeds in a same time in one recipe.
2.It very easy to use pach phoron in preparing lenthils.
3.It will satisy your taste because all the seeds have different, nice flavour.
4.It is usefull in preparing pickles.

Fenugreek seed benefits:
1.It is good for high bp patient.
2.It is also benificial for diabetic patient.
3.It helps to reduce cholesterol.
4.It helps to relieve sore throat pain and cough.
5.It is very good for new mothers.

Black mustard seed benefits:
1. It is good for skin and hair.
2.It fights against infection.
3.Mustard seed slows ageing.
4.Also mustard seed can prevent many disease.

Nigella or kalonji seed benefits:
1.It is very helpful in different disease.
2.It is good in cold.
3.It is natural fertilizer booster.

Fennel seed benefits:
1. It helps in weight loss.
2. It is good for liver.
3. It is good for eyesight.
4. It helps purify blood.
5  It is a natural mouth freshner.

Garam masala (Mixer of cinnamon + cloves + cardamom) benefits:
1. Garam masala is a immunity booster.
2. It is helpful in weight loss.
3. It helps in digestion.
4. It helps in lowering blood sugar levels.