Fresh Cheese with Spinach Sauce (Saag Paneer)
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Saag paneer, a dish of firm fresh cheese in stewed spinach, is a standard Indian restaurant offering. We like it so much that we wanted to create a homemade version, beginning with the cheese. Surprisingly, it can be made with supermarket ingredients and with relative ease.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
We didn’t stray far from the usual technique when developing our saag paneer recipe—we brought milk and a healthy dose of salt to a boil and stirred in white vinegar (which we preferred over lemon juice for its neutral taste) until curds fo...