How to Make Palak Paneer

Everyone has their own way of making this dish and honestly, I also make it in a different way every time I cook it. This particular recipe is very simple and I would call it home style palak paneer recipe. It uses basic spices and simple ingredients. For the curry, I first blanch the spinach and then puree it. 

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Once the spinach is boiled, add it to ice cold water. This helps in retaining the color of the spinach. The curry is made of the spinach puree, tomato, onion, ginger and garlic. I use lot of garlic because in my opinion spinach and garlic go really well together.

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However, if you are not a fan, you may cut down on it or skip it altogether. Also, you can skip the tomatoes if you want.  It will still come out great! I often use my homemade paneer for this palak paneer recipe. It’s really the best. However, if you use store bought paneer, just remember to soak it in hot water for 15 to 20 minutes and then use in the recipe.

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The store-bought paneer will be really soft then.

A lot of people like pan frying their paneer before adding it to the curry.