Name: Cheese Cubes with Spinach and Mustard Seeds (Mathura Palak Paneer)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 1 small red onion, finely chopped; 6 medium-size cloves garlic, finely chopped; ½ teaspoon ground turmeric; 1 pound fresh spinach leaves, well rinsed; 2 tablespoons canola oil; 1 teaspoon black or yellow mustard seeds; ½ teaspoon cayenne (ground red pepper); ½ teaspoon Punjabi garam masala; 8 to 10 cherry or grape tomatoes, cut in half; 1 teaspoon coarse kosher or sea salt; 8 ounces Doodh paneer, cut into 1-inch cubes and pan-fried (see box); ½ cup half-and-half; 1 teaspoon mango powder or fresh lime juice

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

660 Curries

By Raghavan Iyer

Published 2008

About

What are the chances of two beautiful souls—one born in Chennai (formerly Madras), the other born in Queens, New York—meeting at an Indian professionals’ conference in Chicago and uniting in wedded bliss within months of the encounter? No, it is not a hackneyed Bollywood movie plot, but a reality show starring my dear friend Balki Radhakrishnan and his bride, Swetal Sindhvad. When they met, one of the many things they found they had in common was a love of Indian food and cooking. The kitch