One more green leafy veg recipe to the platter. This recipe is Aloo Palak, again a side dish from Punjab served with rice and chapatis/phulkas. It is cooked using main ingredients potatoes, spinach, tomatoes and few masalas. It is a simple and easy to cook recipe. And it takes hardly few minutes to cook it. Green veggies are good for health and if cooked with pototoes, it makes it intresting . Though green veg recipes are boring, this would not be that boring but tasty.
Ingredients:
2 Bunches palak
2 Potatoes
2 Tomatoes
1 Onion
2 Garlic flakes
1 Ginger
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp Corainder powder
1/2 tsp Red chilli powder
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
Oil for frying.
Method:
- Wash and clean the palak, chop them and set aside
- Cut the potatoes into small cubes.
- Chop the tomatoes into small pieces.
- Grind ginger and garlic to make a paste.
- Chop the onions into small pieces
- Take 2 tablespoons of oil in a kadai, and add the chopped onions. Fry onions till they turn transparent.
- Add cumin powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder and turmeric powder to it and saute for a minute.
- Add ginger garlic paste. Saute them till the raw smell of ginger and garlic goes, so fry them for 1-2 mins.
- Add the tomatoes and saute till oil leaves the sides of the pan and the tomatoes are tender soft.
- Now add the potatoes and cook it with closed lid for 5 mins.
- Add chopped palak and salt and mix well. Cover the kadai with lid and cook for 20 mins on medium flame.
- Open the lid and check the dish, palak must be well cooked and turned into dark green colour.
- Aloo palak is ready to serve. Serve hot with rice or chapathis.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes.
Serves: 4 persons
Shelflife: 1 day.
Serving suggestions: Serve hot with rice or chapatis.
Note:
- Cook the dish in its own water. Dont add extra water.
- This dish needs no garnishing. But if needed, decorate it with chopped tomatoes .
- Few like this dish in the form of gravy. In that case, blanch the spinach and grind it to paste.
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