Time
15 min
Serving
5 persons
Calories
0
Spinach cottage cheese curry is a dish, which is popular in the North India. You can eat it as an appetizer or a snack, but it is also possible to cook it as a side dish or a main dish. The cooking time does not take it longer than 15 minutes. This Indian dish is healthy and easy to cook. So, try it right away!
Ingredients
- spinach: 1 bunch
- cottage cheese: 200 g (paneer)
- cumin seeds: 1 Tbsp
- onion: 1 piece (sliced)
- tomatoes: 1 piece (finely chopped)
- green chilies: 1 piece (finely chopped)
- garlic: 1 Tbsp (smashed)
- Powdered coriander: 1 Tbsp
- turmeric powder: 0.25 tsp
- Garam Masala: 1 Tbsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp (to your taste)
- oil: 1 Tbsp
- sugar: 0.5 tsp
- ghee: 2 Tbsp
- water: 1 Tbsp (or as much as needed)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Take paneer and cut it into several triangles.
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Shallow fry them afterwards.
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Wash the spinach and boil it until it becomes soft. Then grind it in a mixer.
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Take a frying pan and heat oil and ghee in it. Add chopped onion, salt, cumin seeds and garlic. Sauté the ingredients together until they become soft.
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Now, add tomato, green chili and turmeric powder. Keep sautéing for several minutes more.
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Then add coriander powder and mix the ingredients. After that, add spinach puree and mix once again. Add water if needed.
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The next step is adding chili powder, sugar and garam masala. Mix all the ingredients one more time.
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Finally, add lemon juice and fried paneer mix. Turn off the heat and serve hot with rice or chapatti. Enjoy!
