Recipe- Make Your Lunch Delicious With Aloo Palak Ki Sabzi

Aloo palak sabzi is a dry stir fry recipe made by tossing potatoes in basic spices and fresh spinach leaves. Learn this basic Aloo spinach dry curry with the help of a video and stepwise pictures for beginners.

This Potato spinach sabzi is a regular side dish for rotis and parathas in most North Indian homes. In fact, this Aloo sabji can be a good match with simple rice and dal tadka.

The Spinach is a delicious green leaf variety and blends beautifully with any cuisine. As these palak leaves are mostly bland in taste unlike other slightly bitter green leaf varieties, we can use this as a base in Indian gravies.

Ingredients

6 potatoes (medium size)
2 cups spinach (palak chopped)
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
6 garlic pods
3 green chillies
1 onion (3/4 cup)
ū tsp salt (as per taste)
― tsp chilli powder
ž tsp turmeric powder
ž tsp asafoetida
Few tbsp of water

Ingredients

6 potatoes (medium size)
2 cups spinach (palak chopped)
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
6 garlic pods
3 green chillies
1 onion (3/4 cup)
ū tsp salt (as per taste)
― tsp chilli powder
ž tsp turmeric powder
ž tsp asafoetida
Few tbsp of water

Method

* Rinse six medium size potatoes, peel the skin and chop into bite-sized pieces. Keep aside.

* Wash spinach leaves(around two cups packed) and chop them, keep aside.

* Chop 1 medium size onion (3/4 cup) and garlic (6 pods).

* Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a frying pan.

* Add 1 tsp cumin seeds and let them fry for few seconds.

* Next, add fine chopped 6 garlic pods and fry them for half a minute.

* Add one medium size onion (around 3/4 cup) and 3 slit green chillies.

* Saute the onions for a minute until they become transparent.

* Put 3/4 tsp of salt(as per taste) required for the sabzi.

* Add 1/2 tsp chilli powder and saute just ten seconds.

* Next, add the chopped potato and saute for two minutes.

* Aloo pieces tend to stick to the bottom hence stir without break.

* When potato pieces start roasting slightly add palak(spinach) leaves and mix.

* Add 4 tsp of turmeric powder.

* Sprinkle few tablespoons of water and mix quickly.

* Put some asafoetida and cover the pan with a lid.

* Cook potato for around eight minutes until the potatoes become soft.

* Stir often to avoid potatoes stick to the bottom.

* Switch off and serve with dal rice and rotis.