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Palak paneer is the most nutritious vegetarian dish – a favourite among Indians. It is made from spinach and cottage cheese.
Paneer (cottage cheese) is cut into square pieces, deep fried and kept aside. Spinach is cooked in tempered onions and the requisite ingredients are then added The main ingredient is the ginger garlic paste that gives this gravy great taste.
The fried cottage cheese is then added. This is best eaten with chapatis or parathas.
You can find a detailed recipe in this link
https://www.thespruceeats.com/palak-paneer-spinach-and-cottage-cheese-1957977
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Do you use cottage cheese in your dishes?
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Yes
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No
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This is one of my favourite dishes and I often cook variants of it. One thing I have found is that western cottage cheese tends to be very loose and does not react well to frying. If you can’t find paneer, an excellent substitute is halloumi cheese which is available in all supermarkets here, can be treated exactly like paneer, and has a similar taste and texture.
We may not get it here but the paneer that we have here does not let us down. This link has a few other Indian specialities with recipes.
I think panir really is quite different from the western ‘cottage cheese’. Take a look at the photos in this article. As you can see, it is very liquidy and loose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_cheese
This link shows you how to make Cottage Cheese OR paneer It is the same the difference being one is salted the other is not.
https://honestcooking.com/how-to-make-cottage-cheese-or-paneer/#:~:text=The%20only%20difference%20between%20Paneer,these%20cheeses%20are%20the%20same.
Looks delicious. I use skim cottage cheese.
Good to hear you already know about this and you are doing it yourself.