Name: Cottage cheese in spinach purée (Sag paneer)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 100 g/4 oz ghee; knob of butter or ghee; vegetable oil; 800 g/1¾ lb spinach, well washed and drained; 1 teaspoon red chilli powder; salt; 2 teaspoons ground coriander; 100 ml/4 fl oz cream; 2 or 3 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 400 g/14 oz paneer, cut into small cubes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd's India

By Keith Floyd

Published 2001

About

Indian cottage cheese (paneer) is quite firm and can easily be cut into cubes. It is quite simple to make your own paneer.

Ingredients

400 g/14 oz paneer, cut into small cubes
vegetable oil
800

Method

Fry the cubes of cheese in a little oil until they are golden on all sides, then put to one side. Stir-fry the spinach with a knob of butter or ghee (no water is required), then purée it in a blender.
Heat the ghee, add the cumin seeds and as they crackle stir in the chopped garlic and sauté until it is golden brown.
Add the coriander, chilli powder a