Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, alu palak. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Alu Palak is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Alu Palak is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook alu palak using 17 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Alu Palak:
- Make ready Palak Prep
- Take spinach
- Prepare garlic cloves whole
- Get ginger, peeled
- Get green chillies (+/- 2 for spice adjustment)
- Prepare For the gravy
- Make ready diced onions
- Prepare & 1/2 cups puréed tomatoes
- Make ready garlic cloves minced
- Make ready ginger minced
- Take hing
- Get cumin seeds
- Make ready red chilli powder (+ / - 1 for spice adjustment)
- Make ready garam masala
- Get haldi
- Prepare ginger sliced into small thin slices
- Take diced potatoes
Steps to make Alu Palak:
- In a vessel, bring water to boil
- Add the spinach in the water, cover and cook for 1 minute
- Strain the hot water and immerse the spinach in cold water, the cooking process must stop at this point
- Add the spinach, green chillies, ginger and garlic (from spinach prep section) to a mixer and make a smooth paste (add as little water as possible to make the paste)
- Keep the paste aside
- Boil the diced potatoes until they are just undercooked (1 whistle in a cooker should do the game)
- Shock the potatoes by immersing then in cold water, the cooking process should stop for the potatoes to ooze out excess starch
- Take a pan, heat oil
- Shallow fry the parboiled potatoes until they are golden in colour
- Keep the potatoes aside
- Take a wok / kadhai and heat oil
- Add hing
- Add cumin seeds and wait for them to sizzle
- Once they start sizzling, add the minced garlic and ginger (not the sliced)
- Fry until the aroma fills up (1 minute max)
- Add diced onions and fry until they are translucent
- Add all spice powders and stir well for 30 seconds
- Add the tomatoes, followed by salt and stir for 1 minute
- Cover and cook the tomatoes until they ooze out the oil from the dish (keep stirring in between)
- Add the sliced ginger and stir for 1 minute
- Mix the spinach paste we made in the wok
- Cover and cook for about 12 minutes, tasting the dish after about 10 minutes to ensure the raw taste of ground chilli and garlic is no longer dominant
- Add the potatoes and cook on slow heat for 3-4 minutes more
- Enjoy the serving along with some roti and / or jeera rice
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