Palak Saag | Spinach Saag | Gravy Recipes
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2-3 people
 
Creamy, melt in the mouth, with a delicious taste and homely feel, palak saag
Ingredients
  • 2 Cups chopped palak/spinach
  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • 2 sliced onions/shallots
  • 1 chopped tomato
  • 1-2 cloves chopped garlic
  • 1" chopped ginger
  • 1 slit green chilli
  • ½ Tsp garam masala
  • ¼ Tsp red chilli powder
  • 1 Tsp dhania-jeera powder
  • 1 Tbsp makai ka atta/maize flour/cornmeal (coarse cornmeal)
Method
  1. Wash tomatoes, peel ginger, garlic and onion and keep them ready
  2. Roughly chop tomatoes, ginger and garlic and slice the onions
  3. Pick and wash the spinach in a colander, set it aside
  4. Once the water from spinach has drained away, put the spinach in a deep pan
  5. Add chopped tomato, ginger, garlic, chilli and onions
  6. Cover and cook till spinach and other ingredients soften
  7. Next add dhania-jeera powder and garam masala
  8. Add salt to taste and mix well
  9. Allow this to cool
  10. Add this mixture into a mixer jar and grind into a paste
  11. Bring mixture back to heat, add ½ Cup water
  12. Let it come to a light boil
  13. Now add cornmeal and mix very well and ensure there are no lumps
  14. In a small pan, add butter and let it melt
  15. Throw in a sliced onion and start frying
  16. Allow the onion to turn golden brown on low flame
  17. Sprinkle red chilli powder
  18. Pour this over the palak saag mixture
  19. Mix well, serve hot with makki di roti!
Notes
Make sure to use fresh palak/spinach leaves

Do not over boil the spinach leaves as they will discolour completely

Adjust spice as per your taste, add a little more garam masala if you like
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/palak-saag/