BAKED SPINACH WITH CHEESE

Ingredients:

• Spinach,chopped - 1/2 kg
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Refined oil - 2 tablespoon
• Onion,chopped - ¾ cups
• Green chilly,deseeded - 2
• Milk,low fat - 1/2 cup
  
  For the White Sauce
  
• Butter - 40 gm
• All purpose flour - ½ cup
• Milk,low fat - 2 cups
• Paneer,crumbled - 250 gm
• Grated cheese - 50 gm

Method:

1. Boil the spinach in water.
2. Put in a mixer and puree it.Keep it aside.
3. Heat the oil and saute onions.
4. Add chopped and deseeded green chillies.
5. Add spinach puree and cook for 15 minutes
6. Add salt and milk to it and cook for another 5 - 7 minutes.

For the White Sauce

1. Heat the butter in a pan.
2. Add all purpose flour and cook it for about 2-3minutes
3. Add milk,salt and pepper and cook it till it thick-ens.
4. Add the grated cottage cheese to it.
5. Grease a baking dish.
6. Put a layer of the cooked spinach followed it withwhite sauce.Keep adding layers one after the other.
7. Make sure the last layer to be of white sauce,addgrated cheese to it.
8. Bake it at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes.
9. Serve hot.

Calcium content - 900 mg

© Dr Ranjana Mithal