Palak Paneer is one of the best,
one of the most interesting dish
And, there are so many different
recipes to prepare Palak Paneer,
my choice of recipe, that I am going to make,
it is quite a simple recipe,
There are not many ingredients required to prepare it,
The taste of spinach comes out very well in this,
So let's make Palak Paneer!
For preparing Palak Paneer
we will bring the water to a boil,
We have some spinach leaves with me here,
This is approximately half kg of spinach,
We do not have to boil the spinach,
We have to blanch it, blanch meaning,
We need to keep it immersed in
boiling water for a minute or two,
And then remove it and add it to the chilled iced-water,
By doing this the color and the
nutrients of the spinach remain intact,
This has started to wilt, as you can see,
which means
it is almost ready,
This is ready!
We will take this iced-water and
we will quickly add it to it,
Spinach is cooled down immediately,
now, We will squeeze it gently
Do not squeeze it too much because
when we are going to grind it,
the water would be required,
See we had so much as spinach,
after cooking it, it has reduced to this,
In goes spinach,
open it up a little
there,
All that nice bright green color
means good nutrition,
Add some water,
Spinach is ready, just to show you.,
Look at that!
Nice paste
perfect!
Now just tip in a little oil,
very less,
we will add cumin seeds to it,
Some butter, we will add chopped garlic to the butter,
Now, chopped garlic is very important for palak-panner,
as the flavour that comes from it is of roasted garlic.
Give it a nice stir,
on medium heat, we need to completely brown it,
Next, we will add some finely chopped green chilies,
Finely chopped ginger,
add ginger only when the garlic has turned brown,
And, immediately we will add some chopped onions,
there you go!
Look at that!
We don't have to brown the onions, 
we have to cook it on high heat for one-two minutes
so that it turns a little translucent,
Just like how my mom says,
'just let them turn a little pink'
Next, in goes some Spinach,
Now we will roast it for a few minutes,
It will splutter a little and come outside,
That's perfectly fine!
We will next add some salt,
some red chilly powder,
and some cumin seeds
because the spinach is already cooked,
we don't have to cook it more,
Now is the time
we will add some cottage cheese/paneer cubes to it,
Carefully! You can even fry or saute
the paneer and add it to this,
The paneer won't break because of it,
In Palak Paneer, I personally enjoy
that broken malai paneer,
So I never personally fry and add paneer to it,
Raw paneer tastes really good,
after adding paneer,
gently, carefully mix it all together
There!
Just lift it and drop it,
We have to turn it like this,
This is a very simple dish,
A lot of people say that you haven't added
any tomatoes in Palak Paneer,
You haven't added any spices,
Trust me, when you will taste this recipe
you will yourself say that there is no
need for tomatoes, extra spices,
Neither Garam Masala,
It's a very tasty dish,
And there is a very pleasant smell of spinach,
cottage cheese, and butter,
A quick boil
now we will finish this using cream,
after cream a quick stir,
we will not close this,
We don't have to cook the cream,
we just have to heat it a little,
There you go!
And so easily, our very delicious Palak Paneer is ready,
Now is the time to plate it!
Garnish with some cream,
drop some butter,
And some coriander,
our Palak Paneer is DONE!
