{"id":1222,"date":"2020-04-08T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:45:19","slug":"palak-paneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/palak-paneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Palak Paneer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palak Paneer \u2013 Indian Spinach and Cheese<\/h4>\n\n

Yield:<\/strong> 4 Servings<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Ingredients<\/h4>

4 cups frozen spinach, thawed<\/p>\n\n

1 medium tomato<\/p>\n\n

5 large garlic cloves, 3 peeled and left whole and 2 peeled and diced<\/p>\n\n

1-inch piece of ginger<\/p>\n\n

1 green chili or jalape\u00f1o<\/p>\n\n

1 tablespoon oil, I used avocado<\/p>\n\n

1 large onion, finely diced<\/p>\n\n

\u00bd cup water<\/p>\n\n

1-2 teaspoons Tijerina Global Spice Garam Masala (any Garam Masala will do for now)<\/p>\n\n

\u00bc teaspoon turmeric powder<\/p>\n\n

\u00bc teaspoon cayenne, or to taste<\/p>\n\n

Kosher salt, to taste<\/p>\n\n

2-3 tablespoons heavy cream or plain yogurt<\/p>\n\n

1 block, 8 oz. paneer, cut into cubes<\/p>\n\n

\u00bd tablespoon kasuri methi, crushed, dried fenugreek leaves (I typically do not have this on hand, and it is difficult to find, so a fine substitute is celery leaves. Yes! Finally, some use for them other than broth!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Fresh squeezed lemon juice, to taste, about 1 tablespoon<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Method<\/strong><\/h4>
  1. In a blender add the spinach, tomato, 3 whole garlic, ginger and green chili\/jalape\u00f1o. Puree to a smooth paste and set aside.<\/li>
  2. Heat a pan on medium heat. Once hot, add the oil and then add the remaining 2 cloves of diced garlic. Saut\u00e9 for few minutes until it starts brown, then add the diced onion.<\/li>
  3. Cook the onion and garlic for 2-3 minutes until soft and translucent.<\/li>
  4. Add in the prepared spinach puree and water and stir.<\/li>
  5. Cover the pan and let it cook for 10 minutes on medium heat. The spinach will bubble a lot.\u00a0Stir at regular intervals to avoid sticking to the bottom and burning.<\/li>
  6. After about 10 minutes add the garam masala, turmeric powder, cayenne and salt, mix and cook for 1 minute.<\/li>
  7. Add the heavy cream or yogurt and paneer and stir. Let simmer for 3-4 minutes.<\/li>
  8. Remove from the heat, taste and add lemon juice and kasuri methi (celery leaves) and stir.<\/li>
  9. Salt to taste and serve just like this or with a side of Saffron Rice<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>

    Enjoy!<\/p>

    **Vegan variation, substitute Paneer for Tofu and use a non-dairy cream\/yogurt<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Palak Paneer \u2013 Indian Spinach and Cheese Yield: 4 Servings Ingredients 4 cups frozen spinach, thawed 1 medium tomato 5 large garlic cloves, 3 peeled and left whole and 2 peeled and diced 1-inch piece of ginger 1 green chili or jalape\u00f1o 1 tablespoon oil, I used avocado 1 large onion,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[393,821,955,956],"class_list":{"1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-recipes","7":"tag-garam-masala","8":"tag-tijerina-garam-masala-spice-mix","9":"tag-tofu","10":"tag-vegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicatijerina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}