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                     Aloo Palak ki sabzi
               (Potatoes with spinach)

All most everyone loves potatoes. Potatoes contains vitamins, minerals and fiber, but they are known for carbohydrate content, they are good for you as long as you prepare them in a healthy manner. Aloo palak ki sabiji is a nutritious popular north Indian side dish. In this dish potato is cooked in with spinach, onions, garlic, tomatoes and blend of spices. It could be served with any main dish and roti, puri or parathas.

Ingredients:

1    Pack (10 oz) frozen chopped spinach
      thawed or 1 pound fresh spinach-chopped
2    Medium  potato-chopped into ½ " pieces
1    Medium size onion- fine chopped
1    Medium ripe tomato - chopped
2    Cloves of garlic minced (2 teaspoon minced)
1    Tablespoon fresh grated ginger or fine 
      chopped
1    Medium green chili- chopped
2    Teaspoons coriander powder
½   Teaspoon red chili powder
½   Teaspoon turmeric powder
½   Teaspoon garam masala (optional)
1    Teaspoon mango powder (amchoor)
2    Tablespoons vegetable oil
1½ Teaspoon salt or to your taste

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         Chopped spinach

            Chopped potatoes

Directions:

1. On medium heat add 2 tablespoons oil in a non stick frying pan or heavy bottomed stainless steel pan, add chopped onions and minced garlic, sauté them for 5 to 6 minutes or until onions become light brown.

In a pan add chopped onions, minced garlic and oil and fry

Onions become light brown

2. Add coriander powder, turmeric powder and red chili powder and mix and fry for
    few seconds.

Add coriander powder, red chili powder and turmeric powder

Mix the spices with fried onions

3.   Add chopped tomatoes and cook for 5 to 6 minutes or until they become soft and blend with onions, while cooking with the spatula mash tomatoes so that they become soft quickly.

Add chopped tomatoes

Tomatoes blended with onions

4. Once tomatoes become soft and blend well with the onions, add spinach and chopped potatoes. Sprinkle salt over and mix everything together, cover the pan and cook on low heat for 20 to 25 minutes or until potatoes become tender. Do not add any water because vegetables cook in their own steam. 

5.  While cooking periodically keep stirring and turning the spinach and potatoes upside down so that masala coats the vegetables evenly all the time.

Add chopped spinach and chopped potatoes

Mix potatoes and spinach with onion masala

6.  Once potatoes become tender add chopped green chilies and grated ginger and mix, if there is water in the bottom then turn the heat high so that all the water evaporates quickly, then turn the heat down to medium. 

7. Sprinkle mango powder (amchoor) and gram masala and cook for another 5 minutes while frequently stirring and turning potatoes and spinach upside down. Turn the stove off.

Add grated ginger and chopped green chilies

Sprinkle mango powder (amchoor) and garam masala

Aloo palak is ready

Tips:

1.  One pound of fresh spinach is equal to 6 cups
     chopped spinach and after boiling equal to 1 cup.

Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.

Thank you    

Geeta Seth

Other recipes:

Aloo banigan (Potatoes with eggplants)               Green long black eye beans
                                                                                     (Lobia ki phali)
Aloo methi (Potato with fenugreek)                   Stuffed karela (Bitter melon)

Green beans (French beans)                               Stuffed eggplants (Banigan)

 Gobi aloo (Cauliflower with potatoes)

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