Palak Paneer

Ingredients Required:
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Below sabji would be sufficient for 6-7 chapathis

1. Palak Leaves: 5 bowls(Cleaned one) (500 gm)
2. Medium sized fully riped Tomatoes: 2-3
3. Green Chilly: 1-2 
4. Ginger: 1 inch
5. Dhania Powder: 1 tb sp
6. Chilly powder: 1 tea spoon
7. Garam Masala : 1/2 tea spoon
8. Turmeric: 1/4 tea spoon
9. Besan - 1 tb spoon
10. Jeera: 0.5 tea spoon
11. Hing: a pinch
12. salt: 2 tea spoon
13. Oil : 2 tb spoon
14. Paneer Cubes: 7-9

Pre-Requisites
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1. Put all the palak in a med sized vessel and sprinkle around 1 spoon of water. Close the lid and heat it on a low flame for 5 minutes
2. Meanwhile prepare Tomato puree. Cut the tomatoes and put green chilly and ginger and blend it in a mixi to prepare fine puree. The amount of puree should be around 1/2 to 3/4 bowl.
3. Once the palak has been cooked, allow it to cool
4. When palak is cooled enough blend it in a mixi. 5 bowl of cleaned palak will be around 1 bowl after making it a fine paste

Method:

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1. Heat 1.5 tbsp oil in a pan. Once Oil is heated up, add hing and jeera. Once jeera is done, turn the flame to low
2. Add little turmeric and then add coriander powder and later besan and stir it for 1-2 min 
3. Then add Tomato puree.
4. Add Chilly powder according to the taste. his is completely optional based on the spiciness required.
5. Keep the above on a med flame and kep stirring it till oil starts floating. It will take approximately 5-6 min
6. Once oil starts floating on the top add palak paste.
7. Little water can be added(Preferably water from the mixi in which palak paste was made)
8. Add salt and little garam masala.
9. Allow the above mixture to boil.
10. Add panner cubes and close the lid and keep it on low flame for 2-5 min

****Keep stirring 

Note: Before adding Tomato puree onion paste can be added(1/2 onion)
          Butter can be added at the end to make this dish more rich

Reference : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93c0dARFCYw

Gobi Manchurian

Gobi Manchuri ...

I have made this by watching one of the youtube.
Gobi has to be cleaned by soaking it in hot salted water for 30 min.


Ingredients:
Maida - 1 cup                                                                                Tomato sauce
Corn flour  - 1/2 cup                                                                      Hot - Sweet Sauce
3/4 Gobi                                                                                      soya sauce
green chlli - 2                                                                                finely chopped onion
garlic - 20 cloves(made into paste)                                               pepper powder
ginger paste

1.Marinate cleaned gobi with onion, salt, green chilly paste, ginger paste and garlic paste and pepper powder. Leave it for 20 min.
2.Mix Maida and corn flour and add water slowly to make it as thick as a dosa batter.
3.Keep oil on the stove on a medium flame
4.To this batter add the above marinated gobi. Mix gobi in the batter such that, the gobi should be evenly covered with batter.(check if the salt is correct)
5.Now drop gobi into the heated oil and fry until golden brown and place them on a paper.

Gobi pakoda is now ready.

Next the sauce mixture has to be done.

1.Add 2 sp soya sauce
2.Little tomato sauce and Hot-sweet sauce and mix them
3.Add little water if desired.
4.Add finely chopped garlic into this and heat them on a low flame. When this start boiling add liitle corn flour syrup
(Dissolve corn flour in little water)
5.Now add the gobi pakodas and fry them until the gobi and the sauce is completed mixed.

Outcome: It was ok. Not very good nor bad. I think I added more of tomato sauce which gave a litlle sweet flavour to it. I guess more of Hot suace had to be added or else green chilly sauce has to be added to this.

There were around 15 gobi's.