Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, alu palak. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Alu Palak is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Alu Palak is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook alu palak using 17 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Alu Palak:
- Take Palak Prep
- Get spinach
- Take garlic cloves whole
- Prepare ginger, peeled
- Get green chillies (+/- 2 for spice adjustment)
- Get For the gravy
- Take diced onions
- Prepare & 1/2 cups puréed tomatoes
- Get garlic cloves minced
- Get ginger minced
- Get hing
- Get cumin seeds
- Make ready red chilli powder (+ / - 1 for spice adjustment)
- Prepare garam masala
- Make ready haldi
- Make ready 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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