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Aloo palak recipe (Aloo palak gravy recipe)

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    A healthy side dish recipe, in which potato(aloo) is cooked with Indian spinach. This is very rich and creamy tasting side dish, without any much fatty things. I had aloo palak for the first time only last year in a friends home,when they served it along with vegetable rice. I had no idea about the taste of it until that day. It was yummy and Aj & Vj too loved it. I was thinking why I had not tried making at home so far. Even at restaurants I have never thought of tasting such a nice dish. I make palak paneer at home as Aj loves it and I thought I can make it the same way except for the panner I can add aloo. So I made the palak paneer recipe even more simpler to make and made this aloo palak. And it turned out finger licking good!  Its perfect for weekend lunch. I made it along with peas pulao and it was perfect for it. You can also make it as side dish for roti …

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Aloo palak recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Lunch/ Dinner
Prep Time: 10 mins    |  Cook time: 30 mins    |  Serves: 3

Ingredients

Palak (Indian spinach) – 2 cups, tightly packed

Potato – 3

Onion – 1

Tomato – 2

Green chillies – 4

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp

Coriander powder – 2 tsp

Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp

Kasoori methi – 2 large pinches

Sugar – 1/4 tsp

Milk – 1/4 cup

Salt – as needed

TO temper

Oil – 2 tsp

Cinnamon – 1 inch piece

Cardamom – 1

Cloves – 1

Method

  1. Separate the leaves of spinach from the thick stem. Wash and clean the leaves. Heat a pan and add the washed leaves, green chillies and cook in medium flame. The water in the leaves is enough to cook the leaves.Cook until the leaves reduce in volume. Set aside. Heat oil in the pan and add the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Just give it a fry and add finely chopped onions.Fry till transparent. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute.

    2. 1-aloo-palak

  2. Mean while, after palak cools down and grind it to a smooth paste.Cook potatoes and peel it, cube it.

    3. plk4-horz

  3. Add chopped tomatoes and required salt and fry till mushy. Add coriander powder and kasoori methi. Fry for a minute. Add the ground palak puree,sugar and cook in medium flame for 2 minutes. Add 1/4 cup water while it gets cooked.

    4. 2-aloo-palak

  4. Add the boiled, cubed potatoes, salt and mix well. Add milk at this time and mix well. Cook in medium flame. Do not boil in high flame.

    5. 3-aloo-palak

  5. Cook for 2 minutes. Lastly add garam masala and pepper powder. Mix well and switch off the stove.

    6. 4-aloo-palak

Notes

  • Adding sugar retains the colour of the spinach.
  • You can skip ginger garlic paste and add either finely chopped ginger or chopped garlic while frying onion.
  • Instead of boiling potatoes and adding as such, you can deep fry until golden brown and add to the gravy.

Serve with rice or roti. We had with peas pulao! Its yummy and healthy too! No much oil too in this.

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  7. lovely!!! U forget to mention about green chili's in that procedure but I can see its added with spinach. we can add the green chili as such while grinding the spinach rite?

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  27. I've been planning to try this recipe ever since we had the same at a restaurant.I believe potatoes make any curry stand out among the rest and this one is no different.Love the bright green colour of the gravy!

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  41. Hi Rajeswari ,

    Aloo palak looks delicious and

    neat presentation 🙂

    one request to you Rak ,

    I posted a guest post at Lavanya's blog.

    Do drop a comment at Lavanya's recipes….

    thank you Rak and Keep on:)

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  44. WOW – I am so happy I have found this site – I love home style cooking but have no one to teach me – now I can learn from all these step by step pictures! Spinach is my FAVOURITE!!
    Thanks!

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  46. Hi there… i tried this recipe… turned out grt.. my family really appreciated the new dish ..:) and i must add… i have tried 2 other recipes… shahi paneer and bhindi masala… n they r our hot favourites with roti.. 🙂

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  53. I have made Palak dishes for years now. But I must say, this turned out to be the best palak dish forever. Its so mild in its flavors, and yet so yummmmmm… My family wiped the wok clean. Thank you for this!

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