PANEER AND SPINICH SWIRLS

Paneer and Spinich Swirls are elegant, sure-to-impress your kids.

PREPARATION TIME : 10 min.
TOTAL TIME              : 30 min.
CALORIES                 : 262 

INGREDIENTS :

• 4 sheets of Frozen Puff Pastry sheets.
• 1 cup finely chopped and blanched spinach
• 1/2 cup of grated Paneer
• 1 medium onion finely chopped
• 3-4 cloves of garlic chopped
• 1/2 tsp of red chili flakes
• salt to taste
• 2 tbsp of milk
• 1 tsp of oil for making filling
• Oil spray for baking the swirls

METHOD :

1. Pre Heat the Oven at 200 degrees.
2. Take out the pastry sheets from the freezer and let it soft for 40 minutes before you plan to start to make these swirls.
3. Mean while,heat oil in a pan, and once the oil is hot, add onions to it. Stir fry the onions until they are pink.Now add chopped garlic and stir fry them too.
4. Once the onions and garlic are little cooked, add spinach, salt, chili flakes and mix everything well. Let this mixture cook for 5 minutes on medium flame and then switch off the flame and allow this mixture to cool.once cooled, mix the paneer also to this mixture.
5. Take one pastry sheet and roll it longer using a rolling pin. Spread the paneer and spinach filling on the pastry sheet leaving one inch space in the ends.
6. Roll the sheet with both the ends and seal the edges using milk. Once the sheet is rolled, brush with milk all over, and cut it into 1.5 cm thick swirls. you will have 4 swirls form each sheet.
7. Grease a baking tray with little oil and place all the swirls on the baking tray. Spray some oil all over.
8. Bake the pastry sheet swirls at 200 degrees for 20 minutes. You may flip the swirls at some time in between so that they get baked on both the sides equally.
9. Once they are baked , take them out and serve hot with tomato ketchup and enjoy.