How to make Palak Paneer and Rice Casserole -
An appetising baked cassrole layered with pasta sauce, palak paneer rice and a generous amount of cheese cubes.
This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.
Main Ingredients : Spinach (पालक), Rice (चावल)
Cuisine : Fusion
Course : Main Course Vegetarian
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Palak Paneer and Rice Casserole Recipe Card
Hindi: palak
Treasure house of vitamins and minerals, spinach must be included in the week's menu. The usage can be varied: chopped spinach leaves cooked with potatoes is a semi-wet vegetable with rotis, a few spinach leaves thrown in with mixed vegetables and turned into a soup is lovely on a cold winter night, chopped and blanched spinach makes a different sort of raita, spinach puree can be used in cutlets or kababs, the list goes on.
Prep Time : 16-20 minutes
Cook time : 21-25 minutes
Serve : 4
Level Of Cooking : Easy
Taste : Mild
Ingredients for Palak Paneer and Rice Casserole Recipe
Spinach blanched & chopped 1 bunch
Rice cooked 3 cups
Paneer (cottage cheese) cut into ½ cm cubes 100 grams
Oil 1 tablespoon
Butter 1 tablespoon
Cumin seeds 1 teaspoon
Onion finely chopped 1 medium
Salt to taste
Pasta sauce 1 cup
Cheddar cheese cut into ½ cm cubes 100 grams
Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180ºC.
Step 2
Heat oil and butter in a non-stick pan. Add cumin seeds and let them change colour.
Step 3
Add onion and sauté till it is translucent. Add spinach, mix and sauté till the moisture dries up.
Step 4
Add rice and salt, mix and cook for a minute. Drizzle some water, cover and cook for two to three minutes.
Step 5
Spread the pasta sauce evenly in an oval glass baking dish. Top with a layer of prepared rice mixture and add cottage cheese and cheddar cheese cubes on top.
Step 6
Place the dish in the preheated oven and bake for ten to fifteen minutes.
Step 7
Serve hot.
Nutrition Info
Calories : 2436 Kcal
Carbohydrates : 273.1 gm
Protein : 112.9 gm
Fat : 98.7 gm
Other : Iron- 40.1mg
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