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		<title>Palak Paneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garrett Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m trying palak paneer, a dish from India described on the box as &#8220;Curried spinach and cottage cheese cooked to perfection in a mild sauce.&#8221; I found this at Fox Farm Foods in Joplin, Missouri. It&#8217;s made by Ashoka, and takes 1-2 minutes to heat up in the microwave. According to the Wikipedia entry, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft alignnone size-medium wp-image-161" style="float: left;" title="palak-paneer" src="http://www.willyums.com/sketchbook/wp-content/uploads/palak-paneer.jpg" alt="" width="78" height="100" />Today I&#8217;m trying palak paneer, a dish from India described on the box as &#8220;Curried spinach and cottage cheese cooked to perfection in a mild sauce.&#8221; I found this at Fox Farm Foods in Joplin, Missouri. It&#8217;s made by Ashoka, and takes 1-2 minutes to heat up in the microwave.<br />
According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saag" target="_blank">the Wikipedia entry</a>, it&#8217;s often served with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassi" target="_blank">lassi</a>, which is a sweet milk drink from the Punjab region of India. I would SOOOOOO love to have a mango lassi with this. If you live around an Indian restaurant(not Native American, but Indian), see if they have lassis, and drink up.</p>
<p>The box says that it contains all natural ingredients and is suitable for vegetarians, which is nice. I like to eat healthy. Here&#8217;s what it looks like garnished with a chicken chunk from our local Charlie&#8217;s Chicken:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-162" title="palak-paneer1" src="http://www.willyums.com/sketchbook/wp-content/uploads/palak-paneer1.jpg" alt="" width="342" height="268" /></p>
<p>Now, on to eating it. The paneer is very similar to spinach dip. In fact, next thing I did after tasting just the paneer, was dip my chicken into it. It&#8217;s very good like that, too. Just like spinach dip, the spinach doesn&#8217;t come across as yucky as you might expect. In fact, did you notice the word &#8220;curried&#8221; in the description? Anytime you see &#8220;curry&#8221; or a variation thereof, that means &#8220;spicy&#8221;. Not in the sense of jalapeno or pepper spicy, but with things like ginger, green chilli and cumin. Indian spices. I don&#8217;t like spicy foods, but I can tolerate a small amount of it. The spiciness was just enough to give it flavor, and cause me to reach for my water a few times. The chicken I added has its own spices, and blends nicely with it. You can also try chips in this, since it&#8217;s so similar to spinach dip.<br />
There are also large chunks of &#8220;Indian cottage cheese&#8221;. Tastes like mozzarella when I get a really large chunk of it. At first I thought they were potatoes, with how they&#8217;re cut. Cheese is always a good addition to spinach.</p>
<p>I give this palak paneer two thumbs up. It&#8217;s really not a weird dish, if you&#8217;ve tried spinach dip before. I do recommend adding something like chicken to it, though, to vary the taste a little, and in my case to dull the spiciness.</p>
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