Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Bechamel Sauce

Béchamel Sauce is the basic White Sauce

Ingredients
  1. 2 tablespoons butter. (Same qty butter and flour)
  2. 2 tablespoons flour.
  3. 1 1/4 cups milk, heated.
  4. Salt.
  5. Freshly ground pepper and nutmeg powder (optional)
  6. Bay Leaves
  7. Onion
  8. Cloves

Cook Butter and Flour
      Add milk slowly
        Onion, cloves, bay leaves for flouring
          Bechamel Sauce can be used to thicken soups

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          Paneer Palak

          1. Clean spinach in water to remove any soil or impurities.

          2. To blanch the spinach, boil it in turmeric salted water for 2 minutes.

          3. Drain it, cool and grind blanched spinach along with green chillies.

          4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil  and shallow fry the paneer cubes  until the sides turn light brown.

          5. Heat 1-tablespoon oil and 1-tablespoon butter  Add cumin seeds and saute.

          6. Add finely chopped onion and stir fry.

          7. Add ginger-garlic paste and stir fry.

          8. Add spinach puree, salt and cook for 2-3 minutes.

          9. Add adequate water, and bring it to a boil.

          10. To the gravy, add shallow fried paneer cubes and cook for 3-4 minutes.

          11. Add lemon juice, kasuri methi and mix well.

          12. Add the cashew cream, after 2 minutes switch off the flame.

          * If you want to have very soft paneer that mixes well with gravy of palak, soak them in hot water for 10 minutes after shallow frying.

          * Instead of paneer, boiled and diced potato or cooked chicken also can be used.