We’re having Indian-inspired food for Christmas and I had a lot of spinach and other greens on hand so I decided to make saag paneer. Only problem - no paneer! It looked fairly approachable so yesterday I jumped in and gave it a try.

Recipe/method used: Aarti Sequeira’s recipe-within-a-recipe for paneer that I found in her saag paneer recipe: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/aarti-sequeira/saag-paneer1-1927603

I didn’t have cheesecloth so I used a just-laundered cotton bandana to strain the curds. I hung the bundle from my kitchen faucet and then pressed the curds using Aarti’s method: between two plates and weighed down with canned goods.

See photos for today’s marinating and frying of the paneer for the saag paneer.

I had 3 cups of whey left so I discovered you can make Norwegian brown cheese using the whey, so I made that right after I was done with the paneer. Check my profile to see how that cheese turned out - I cross-posted it here just before I wrote this post.

2 points Many-You5110

I’ll have to check this out, looks and sounds amazing

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1 points glitterpiller

Looks delicious! What sauce did you use? I’ve been buying paneer and pan frying it and tossing in garlic and onion powder at the end. Always looking for inspiration!

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1 points yardini

That sounds yummy! I just used the spices/oil recommended in the Aarti recipe up in the post.

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1 points Personnel_5

i LOVE paneer

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