Saturday night !

We planned indoors this weekend dinner, so i made my fav palak panner, his fav jeera rice along with rotis.

Ingredients for Palak panner:

• Chopped onions - 1
• red chilli pdr -1/2 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste - 1tsp
• green chillies - 2 chopped
• chopped tomato - 1 no
• salt - to taste
• corriander pdr - 1 tsp
• turmeric pdr - apinch
• panner - 10 to 15 cubes
• cream - 3/4 cup
• kasuri methi - 1 tsp
• garam masala - 3/4 tsp
• garlic - 3 to 4 cloves
• spinach - 3 bundles (to be judged depending on the size of the bundles)
• oil - 3 to 4 tsp

Method:

• Clean the spinach (palak leaves) several times until the water is clean.
• Add them into boiling water in a pan for abt 2 mins so that it is well cooked. Do not close the pan as it may change the bright green colour of the palak
• Tranfer them into a blender after it cools and grind along with garlic cloves into a paste and keep aside
• Heat oil in a kadai add cumin seeds , chopped garlic,onions and saute well.
• Add salt,ginger garlic paste,turmeric and wait till the onion is well cooked.
• Add the tomatoes,chilli pdr,corriander pdr,green chillis,kasuri methi and mix thoroughly for abt two to three mins until all the spices are binded together.
• Slowly add the pureed spinach and mix well
• Add the panner( frying the panner is optional if it is soft) to the spinach mixture and cook well
• pour the sumptuous cream on the palak panner ,mix and serve!

Ingrediants for Jeera rice:

• Basmati rice - 1 cup
• water - 2 cups
• green chillis - 2 chopped/slit
• cumin seeds - 1 to 2 tsp
• cinnamon stick - 2
• cloves - 3
• Ghee - 2 tsp

Method:

• Take a small pressure cooker and heat, add the ghee and when hot add the cumin seeds.
• when the cumin seeds splutter add the cinnamon,green chillies,cloves and saute well
• Meanwhile the rice can be soaked in water for 15 mins.
• Now add only the rice and mix well for abt a minute and add 2 cups of water.
• close the pressure cooker .
• turn off the heat after 3 whistles.
• Wait for the pressure to release and serve hot!

Ingrediants for roti (plain):

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 spoons oil
• 1/2 tsp salt ( optional)
• warm water - as required

Method:

• Mix the flour and salt and make a dough by adding enough water.
• Knead the dough well by adding oil and keep for 1/2 hr
• divide into equal portions ( may be 10 to 12) and roll them into rotis ,7'inch diameter thin rounds using wheat flour for rolling
• cook on both sides on the tava and keep aside
• Brush with ghee/oil if needed and serve.