Saag Paneer

Who wouldn’t like paneer packed with goodness? Saag Paneer is a creamy, flavorful, appetizing curry that is easy to prepare and sumptuously feasts your taste buds. With naan, paratha, or jeera rice, it’s the perfect pairing, with some cut onions and lemon- you're in for a palatable indulgence. Saag Paneer Ingredients are mostly spinach and paneer with added spice. We have to admit- spinach cannot ... be this fun to eat if it weren’t for the paneer. The soft cottage cheese cubes in mild spiced suave spinach sauce are ever so subtle to taste and nutritious. Modern paneer is traced back to Persian rulers who introduced “panir” ( cheese in Old Iranian) made of goat or sheep rennet in the 16th century. Ayurveda mentions something called dadhanwat a milk product similar to ripened cheese. Spinach (saag) is a versatile leafy flowering plant that originated from Ancient Persia, consequently introduced to India and ancient China in 647 AD. 19th-century cookbooks call for boiling spinach for over 25 minutes! Saag Paneer Calories range from just 190 to 210. Saag Paneer Benefits are numerous. Saag provides at least 50% of the RDA for vitamin A and is a good source of iron, calcium, and folic acid. It is proven to have helped those suffering from osteoporosis, heart diseases, arthritis, and colon cancer. The kaempferol in spinach decreases your risk of chronic diseases and its antioxidants decrease oxidative damage like diabetes risk. Paneer strengthens bone and teeth and stimulates feelings of fullness with the casein contained- thereby supporting weight loss.