NicStan Cooks

There are lots of Palak Paneer recipes out on the internet. I looked at several and floated between a few.

Ingredients

Spinach/onion purée

• 5 cups spinach
• 1 Padilla pepper and one red bell pepper (use 2 Padillas or something hotter)
• 1/2 onion – chopped (I’d do a whole next time)
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1/4 cup cashews
• 1 Tbsp oil
• 1 tsp minced ginger

Paneer

• 1 Tbsp oil
• 1 tomato – chopped
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp celery seed (or dried fenugreek leaves if you have them)
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp chili powder or paprika
• 1 tsp salt
• 7 oz paneer
• 1/2 – 1 cup water
• 3-6 Tbsp Cream or half and half

Chicken (for the carnivore)

• 1 lb chicken – cut into cubes
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1/4 tsp cayenne
• Salt and pepper
• 1 tsp oil (plus some spray for the air fryer)

Instructions

1. Slice chicken into 1-inch chunks and mix with oil and spices. Let marínate while you prepare other ingredients.
2. Blanch spinach in boiling water for 2 minutes.
3. Sauté the rest of the purée ingredients. Then blend in a blender.
4. Heat oil in pan, once hot add cumin seeds for about a minute. Then add tomatoes and remaining spices.
5. Heat air fryer to 400, slice paneer into cubes. Cook paneer in air fryer for 5 minutes.
6. Once the tomatoes are soft stir in the spinach purée and water.
7. Turn temp on stove down to low, stir in paneer and cream.
8. Cook chicken in air fryer for 7-8 min on 400.
9. Stir in and serve over rice with toasted naan.