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5240544 No.5240544[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

What is your opinion of Palak Paneer?

>> No.5240551

>>5240544
Fucking delicious. I hear the cheese isn't hard to make, and the curry is just spinach, lime leaf, and other spices

>> No.5240554

>>5240544
my mom loves it. I prefer Paneer Makhani. I will def. eat Palak though.

>> No.5240582

It's delicious.

Makes my fart stink though.

>> No.5240619

It's the one dish I always requested when I went out to Indian since I was something like 5, and I still love it.

I've tried making it at home a few times, to somewhat decent results, but nobody I know/eat with cares enough for me to make is often as I'd like.

>> No.5240622

>>5240619

>to make *as often as I'd like

>> No.5240640

Ok when you make this at home do you have to make the paneer or are there places that sell it? I live around a bunch of specialty grocers and have never seen paneer being sold, ever. I know its easy to make but I don't really feel like buying a cheese press. I asked an Indian coworker if he knew where to find it and I think I sort of offended him.

Do you make it or do you buy it?

>> No.5240658

>>5240640

It's honestly the easiest cheese you could ever make at home.

Then it's just garlic spinach (speaking in hyperbole).

Seriously though, even though you make the cheese yourself, its one of the easiest Indian dishes to make (aside from being cheap and delicious).

>> No.5240815

>>5240544
Taste is amazing, a good mild curry to round of any selection.

However I rate most Indian restaurants by the quality of their vindaloo

>> No.5240856

one of the best foods in the world

>> No.5240877

>>5240815
I think vindaloo is typically not a great curry to rate. It's associated with being super hot, and a lot of curry houses aiming to adapt to western tastes will make it unenjoyably hot and oily.

Tarka daal is the best dish to rate a curry house on for me, but I generally speaking dislike North Indian food. South Indian and Sri Lankan is my favourite food. Give me some Tamil Sambar and I am a happy man.

>> No.5240915

>>5240640
Paneer literally just means cheese. Get a young goat's milk cheese from any indian vendor if you want to buy it.

Really though, IIRC you just add some acid and squeeze the curds dry with cheesecloth.

>> No.5240956

>>5240544
I eat the spinach but pick out the cheese and throw it away.

>> No.5240961
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5240961

>>5240544
>Palak Paneer
That looks delicious.
>tfw have never had Indian food in my life
>closest thing is curry made by Vietnamese

>> No.5240977

I usually get chicken/lamb dishes but my friend made palak paneer for my birthday and it was really good. Surprised myself since I am not a fan of cheese at all.

>> No.5240993

>>5240544
Palak beef is better.

>> No.5240996

>>5240640
just bring milk to boil and squeeze in a lime until the whey and curds separate- strain out the water and you are left with paneer

>> No.5241000

Paneer is really easy to make. I usually make it 1-4+ times a month.

I take 2-4 litres of milk and bring it close to a boil on the stove, stirring occasionally. Then remove from heat and add lemon juice while stirring. Pour through cheese cloth and immerse in cold water to stop cooking.

I put 20-30 lbs of weight on the cheese to get a nice firm block.

>> No.5241249

>>5240961

Vietnamese curry is sweet as hell which is not a bad thing depending on your preference.

>> No.5241305

>>5241249
Is it anything like Cambodian curry? My Cambodian neighbors made curry for me once and it was very liquidy like a soup, not hugely spicy, but had a rich sweetness to it. I like it a lot.

>>5240877
I like to judge an Indian restaurant by their bhindi masala or other okra dish. It's a really simple preparation but a lot of restaurants get it wrong.

>> No.5241316

>>5241305

I'm neither of the anons you were responding to, but I'm honestly curious where you live.

I recently moved to a place with a significant Cambodian population (and was close to being invited over for a meal, before we realized we were a decade apart in age, and had almost nothing in common). I live in a small "city", but the Cambodians pretty much lived in the ghetto.

>> No.5241319

Can you guys recc me some Indian curries? I've tried palak paneer, tikka masala, vindaloo, and rogan josh.

>> No.5241320

>>5241316
Cleveland. We've got pockets of Vietnamese and Cambodians here and there, and yeah, a lot of them live in the ghetto.

>> No.5241351

>>5241305

I'm not sure. I'm guessing probably since they're neighbor countries. The sweetness in Vietnamese curry comes from large amounts of coconut milk and if Cambodian curry does the same than yes.

>> No.5241569

>>5240544
god i love it so fucking much.

i can't even contribute to the thread, I'm that dumbstruck.

>> No.5241590

>>5241305
Look up pictures of somlor matchu kroeung mnoas. That might be the "curry" you're talking about. It's made with pineapple juice, turmeric and lemongrass. It's not spicy because it's not meant to be. There are many spicy/pungent Khmer foods that are curry-like.

>>5241249
>>5241351
I have no idea what kind of Viet curry you've eaten. The ones I've had have never been terribly sweet and none are made with coconut milk. They're a North Viet food. They are more soup-like than other curries, though. They are usually made with mutton or goat and rarely pork.

>> No.5241592

>>5241590
Oh, and try playing around with the spelling if nothing comes up or leaving out 'mnoas' (pineapple). Khmer has no standard way of writing using foreign letters, so it is difficult to guess how someone might spell it in English. "Somlor," for example can be written as:
samlaw
somlaw
samlor
samlah
somlah

Very annoying.

>> No.5241662

>>5240544
Love it!

>> No.5241721

>>5240640
>I asked an Indian coworker if he knew where to find it and I think I sort of offended him.
why?

>> No.5241724

That looks like ABC food, Already Been Chewed.
Get back on the road to flavortown!

>> No.5241915

making it from scratch is a huge process and isn't worth all the effort.

>> No.5241922

>>5240544
Love that shit.

>> No.5241926

>>5241915
lolwut
It takes literally 30-45 minutes to make and most of that time, it's just doing its own thing... on its own. Even if you make your own paneer, it's not that labour intensive or time-consuming.

>> No.5241963

>>5241590
My mom makes hers with coconut milk. The broth wasn't sweet if I recall, but she did use sweet potatoes, not sure if that is traditional.
And yeah, back home I can see how how mutton or goat is the norm, but the one's I've had in California, chicken was used.

p.s. we are south Viets

>> No.5241980

>>5241963
Onion, carrot and potatoes in north Viet one. Cham in the south make it the same way. It's not a Buddhist dish, so I guess when Buddhists make it, it's with coconut milk. It's a Hindu or Muslim dish (IE Cham).
I know how to make it, but it's a whole production. I just buy it from a restaurant.