I actually use tofu cubes as a substitute. Texture and taste are the same.

I have made the homemade version and it is easy, but honestly I like the texture of the store-bought kind better for making palak paneer or mattar paneer. I go to the India A-1 Grocery on Glebe Rd in N. Arlington and buy like 10 bricks at a time and freeze them til I want to make some mattar paneer.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe just do an Aloo Saag (spinach and potatoes), unless you really want some sort of cheese?

Good suggestion, but we're making aloo gobi already so I wanted another dish, too.

Anonymous wrote:Get thee to an Indian grocery store.

Can you suggest one in MoCo? Thanks!

Anonymous wrote:Paneer is a basic, homemade cheese. It takes perhaps an hour to create - it's just a gallon of whole milk and some white vinegar. You heat the milk to steaming, add the vinegar and stir. Watch the milk separate. Strain and shape the "cheese" on a plate, chill and cut. One hour. Google it.

Wow! We will do this tomorrow. Thanks so much.

Get thee to an Indian grocery store.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole foods has it

But it is outrageously expensive.

...okay. The question was where to buy it, not how expensive it is.

Anonymous wrote:Whole foods has it

But it is outrageously expensive.

Whole foods has it

Maybe just do an Aloo Saag (spinach and potatoes), unless you really want some sort of cheese?

Get in from an Indian grocer or at Lotte mart in the Indian fridge section.

Anonymous wrote:Or get queso fresco in the cheese section of a Latin grocery store or Columbia Heights Giant

And giants in silver spring too.

Or get queso fresco in the cheese section of a Latin grocery store or Columbia Heights Giant

Paneer is a basic, homemade cheese. It takes perhaps an hour to create - it's just a gallon of whole milk and some white vinegar. You heat the milk to steaming, add the vinegar and stir. Watch the milk separate. Strain and shape the "cheese" on a plate, chill and cut. One hour. Google it.

I want to cook palak paneer, but don't know where to buy paneer cheese. Where do you get it?
Alternately: The recipe is subtitled "Cottage Cheese in mildly spiced Spinach". When I eat palak paneer in restaurants, it doesn't look like any cottage cheese I've ever seen in a grocery store. Is there a good substitute in our local stores?

Thanks!