Saag Aloo
Saag aloo recipe is popular on the menu in most Indian restaurants outside India. If you want to try it out at home, it is one of the simplest Indian dishes that you can get started with.
Ingredients
- 4 medium sized potatoes ~400 grams
- 150 grams green leafy vegetable such as spinach or 5 oz
- 1 tbsp peanut oil or any other cooking oil
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 pinch asafoetida optional
- 5 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 1/2 inch piece of ginger sliced and finely chopped
- 2 green / red chillies
- 1 medium onion halved and thinly sliced
- 2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp red chilli powder optional
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp amchoor powder raw mango powder
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- To prepare saag aloo recipe, pressure cook the potatoes or in a pan of water on the stove top until a skewer goes through. Drain and peel when cool enough to handle. Cut into bite sized chunks and keep aside.
- Wash and clean the green leaves. Roll into a bundle, slice thinly and keep aside. You can also use 4oz of frozen spinach to speed up the recipe.
- In a large non stick pan, heat the oil.
- Sprinkle cumin seeds in hot oil. As soon as the seeds splutter, add garlic, ginger, chillies and stir on high flame for 30 seconds.
- Toss the sliced onion along with the rest of the ingredients in the pan. Cook on a medium flame for 4-5 minutes until onions are translucent.
- The sliced greens go in at this point. Keep stirring on a high flame until the greens wilt, roughly 1-2 minutes.
- Add the cooked potato chunks with all the dry spice powders and salt. Combine all the ingredients in the pan until the potato is coated with the spices and the greens.
- Cover and cook on a low flame for 2-3 minutes for the flavours to combine.
- Remove and serve hot with rotis.
Notes
Apart from serving this with an Indian meal, I have a couple of other ideas for you. Use this curry as a stuffing between two tortillas, sprinkle some cheese and make quesadillas. This also makes a good stuffing for toastie sandwiches that make a hearty lunchbox dish for kids.
Instead of spinach, any seasonal greens like kale, swiss chard or radish tops / beet greens can be used.