Indian cottage cheese recipes
What is palak paneer? Palak paneer is basically India’s answer to a creamy spinach dip, or creamed spinach, or spinach lasagna. It’s morsels of cottage cheese (paneer) cooked in spinach (palak) gravy with aromatic spices. A moderately simple recipe to make, this vegetarian north Indian dish is however not for impatient cooks. The best palak…
Paneer Tikka Recipe
One of the trailers of The Hundred-Foot Journey shows Helen Mirren (Madam Mallory) posing the following question to Manish Dayal (Hassan Kadam) in a very smug tone: “but a curry is a curry, is it not?”. As a notacurry activist I was naturally fascinated by the trailer. I thought that finally a mainstream Hollywood movie was…
As an Indian living in the US you are indoctrinated into certain things. You learn to appreciate beer, its subtleties, and the fact that it is completely okay to drink (just) beer at high-end wine bars. You learn that apple and cinnamon must always go together. You learn that pumpkins can go in desserts, even exclusively so….
It is sharat kal in Bengal now–a fleeting season after spring and before fall. A season of receding rains with the tranquil sun, blue skies speckled with nonchalant white clouds, air heavy with pollens, sideways sprinkled with shiulis and dried flower petals, and lakes and ponds encircled by kans grass–all of this occasionally ruined by begrudged…
I can now confidently confirm that palak (spinach)/saag (leafy greens) paneer (cottage cheese) is the most popular Indian dish abroad, because I haven’t met a single non-desi in the last five years who hasn’t asked me if I have an authentic recipe for it, unless they were vegan, or lactose intolerant, or just blissfully unaware of the…