Again this farm cook had a spark of inspiration of preparing the well know Indian dish Palak Paneer. I ventured into this dish during the past Easter when we had a guest couple here. Yes that was a bit risky if it wouldn’t succeed for our Easter vegetarian dinner. Delightedly surprised, we found the dish turned out very good, as delicious as the original Palak Paneer.
The principle is using as much as possible substitutes from my garden as ingredients instead of commercial ones from supermarket. I replaced the Palak (which means English spinach) with the abundant sweet potato leaves from out garden, added our home grown ginger, tomatoes and shallots.
Ingredients:
- Cooking oil or butter or Ghee
- Sweet Potato leaves
- Indian spice powders. A lot of Internet receipts recommend garam masala powder. But I simply used whatever I had left in my pantry, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, black peppers, cardamoms.
- Plenty of ginger mince.
- Finely chopped shallots or onion.
- Tomato puree
- Paneer cheese or Halloumi cheese whatever you can find in the shop.
- Thick cream
A few tips on preparing the dish.
- Use my Vitamix to make fresh spice mix, and plenty of fresh gingers from my garden. Freshly pulverised spices taste much better than the powdery ones you buy from the shops.
- As for finely chopped onion, I replaced half of the required amount with my garden shallots. I think it should be ok if I use none of onions and only shallots – since I don’t grown onions in my garden.
- Quickly wither the sweet potato leaves in boiling water, just 5 seconds for example. You do NOT need food process to make the leaves into puree. Chopping the very soft leaves on a chopping board is quite enough.
- After making the fresh spice mix with dry Vitamix, you can then use Vitamix for pureeing tomatoes.
- As for the Paneer chees, you can use Halloumi cheese too, You can easily find both in the cheese section in Coles.
Instructions
- Sauté spice mix, ginger mince, finely chopping shallot in hot oil in the pan
- Add tomato puree until boiling.
- Add sweet potata leaves (pureed as prepared above)
- Add cubed Paneer or Halloumi cheese, mix in the pan
- Add salt to taste. Mix well in the pan.
- Serve the hot dish topped with cream,
- Serve together with rice
Author:
hong
Category:
农庄故事