Palak Paneer ( Spinach and Cottage Cheese Curry)

Palak Paneer

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Last week for the first time I tried Palak Paneer. Even though I 'm not a big fan of vegetables and especially green leafy vegetables, I decided to try this because I heard a lot of good reviews about this dish. It is basically spinach and cottage cheese curry. The spinach is first blanched and then put in a processor to make the paste. And then different types of Indian spices and pan seared cottage cheese is added to make this delicious dish. It is finished with cream as garnish.

Now I would like to do the sensory evaluation of this dish:

Taste : Since its a spinach dish, it was a bit bitter. Since it had had a lot of Indian spices it was also hot.Also it had the milky sweetness from the cream, which was used as garnish.The cottage cheese was well compliment by the spinach gravy

Smell : When the dish came to my table I felt like I open the container of garam masala(mixture of grounded Indian spices).

Sight : Palak paneer is gravy in consistency with dark green color.

Touch : Since its a gravy, I felt like touching a liquid.

I liked the taste of the dish. Since the spinach was blanched, the bitterness was very less.Also the cream compliments the spinach very well.

I enjoyed Palak Paneer with Naan roti. Naan roti is an Indian bread.

I would surly eat it again because being a hardcore non vegetarian, I liked this dish very much. Also since I rarely have a vegetable intake in my diet, this will be a good source of vegetable in my diet.

I really enjoyed the mixture of spinach flavor with Indian spices. Also the cottage cheese and the cream added more flavor to the dish.

This has been a very good experience for me because being a meat eater, I was always skeptical about vegetarian dishes.But after this, I will surely start trying more vegetarian dishes. I think I will be more open to all kind of dishes rather than only meat dishes.

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