How to make Baked Palak Paneer - Spiced spinach puree layer topped with spiced cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese cubes and baked.
This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel & has featured on Sanjeev Kapoor Kitchen.
Main Ingredients : Spinach Puree (पालक की प्यूरी ), Cottage Cheese
Cuisine : Indian
Course : Main Course Vegetarian
Baked Palak Paneer Recipe Card
Hindi: palak
Treasure house of vitamins and minerals, spinach must be included in the week's menu. The usage can be varied: chopped spinach leaves cooked with potatoes is a semi-wet vegetable with rotis, a few spinach leaves thrown in with mixed vegetables and turned into a soup is lovely on a cold winter night, chopped and blanched spinach makes a different sort of raita, spinach puree can be used in cutlets or kababs, the list goes on.
You can also find more Main Course Vegetarian recipes like Achari Shalgam Aur Gajar Ka Shaag, Three Pepper Paneer Bake, Kumpir, Rice And Bean Stuffed Capsicums.
Prep Time : 16-20 minutes
Cook time : 31-40 minutes
Serve : 4
Level Of Cooking : Moderate
Taste : Mild
Ingredients for Baked Palak Paneer Recipe
Spinach Puree blanched 1 cup
Cottage Cheese 1/2 cup
Oil 2 tablespoons
Cumin seeds 1 teaspoon
Garlic finely chopped 2 teaspoons
Onion finely chopped 1 medium
Salt to taste
Green chillies finely chopped 2-3
Mozzarella cheese 100 grams
Garam masala powder 1 teaspoon + for sprinkling
Fresh cream 2 tablespoons
Green capsicum thin strips for garnishing
Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180º C.
Step 2
Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add cumin seeds and garlic and sauté till the garlic turns golden. Add onion and sauté further till the onion becomes soft. Add spinach puree and mix well. Add salt and mix well. Add green chillies and mix well and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Step 3
Cut mozzarella cheese into small cubes and put them in a bowl. Add garam masala powder and mix well. Add cottage cheese, salt and fresh cream and mix well.
Step 4
Spread the spinach mixture in a baking dish, over that layer mozzarella cheese-cottage cheese mixture, sprinkle garam masala powder, keep the dish in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes.
Step 5
Remove the dish from oven, garnish with capsicum strips and serve immediately.
