Hara Bhara Saag - Mix veg with Spinach
Ingredients
- 1 bundle spinach (approximately 500-600 gms)
- Few whole green chillies
- 1 carrot cut into sem circles
- 1/2 green capsicum cut into cubes
- 1/2 red capsicum cut into cubes
- 1 onion cut into 4(optional)
- 5-8 mushrooms cut into 4 pieces each
- 1/2 cup cooked peas
- 8-10 cashews
- 2 tsp melon seeds
- 1 tsp whole cummin
- 2 tsp whole coriander seeds pounded coarsely
- Few whole red chillies
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 2 tomatoes chopped
- Red chilli powder to taste
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp cummin powder
- 1 tbsp of dry kasturi methi leaves
- 2 1/2 tbsp of ghee / oil
For the tadka (optional )
- 1/2 tbsp of ghee
- 5-6 whole pods of garlic
- 1/2 tsp kasmiri red chilli
- 1 tomato cut into big pieces
Preparation
- Blanch the spinach
- Clean and cut the spinach coarsely
- Place it in a pan on low flame
- Cover and keep for few minutes
- Flip the spinach and cook for few minutes
- Remove from flame and let it cool down
- Then grind the spinach with few green chillies and keep aside .
- Grind the cashews and melon seeds together in a grinder to make a paste .
- Keep aside .
- Take a pan add 1 tsp of ghee/oil
- Warm the oil and swirl it around
- Add the cut vegetables with a pinch of salt and stir fry on full flame till the vegetables are more than half done .
- Remove and keep aside
Method
- Take a kadhai
- Add the ghee
- When the ghee in warm add the whole red chillies, cummin seeds and the ground coriander
- Stir till the cummin starts spluttering
- Add the chopped onion
- Stir fry till the onions become beige
- Then add the ginger-garlic paste
- Saute till thee raw smell of the ginger garlic goes
- Now add the chopped tomatoes
- Saute till the tomatoes become mushy
- Can add 2-3 tbsp of water to saute
- Now add the salt ,turmeric, red chilli powder, cummin powder, coriander powder
- Saute for few minutes
- Can add few tbsp of water and saute
- When the masala becomes a nice reddish colour
- Add 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Saute for few minutes
- Now add the dry kasturi methi leaves
- Saute for few minutes
- Add the ground spinach
- Mix it in well in the masala
- When the spinach starts bubbling
- Lower the flame and cook till the water of the spinach dries up
- Keep stirring
- When the spinach becomes thick
- Add the cashews melon paste mixed with a little water
- Mix it in well
- Cook for few minutes
- Now add the vegetables and cook on low flame for few minutes
Now the tadka
- Take a small kadhai
- Add the ghee
- When the ghee is warm add the whole cummin and garlic
- Stir for few minutes and red chilli powder and cut tomato
- Stir fry few seconds
- Now add to the spinach .
- Done
- Serve with rotis.
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