Aloo palak

I try to include more Greens in my daily diet and one such green is spinach,which i use in preparing gravies,curries and dal's.Aloo palak can be prepared either in the dry form or a gravy and both go well with roti's.Here goes the gravy form of this.

Ingredients:
1 bunch of spinach
12-15 Baby potatoes or 3 Big Potatoes diced into cubes
1 Onion sliced
1 " Ginger
5-6 garlic pods
6-7 green chillies
1/2 tsp Garam masala
1 tsp Dhaniya powder
1/2 tsp Jeera powder
1 tsp Amchur powder
1/2 tsp jeera
2 tbsp Cream(optional,i did not use it here)
salt to taste
1 tsp oil


Method:

• Blanch the spinach in the boiling water for 5-6 mins until soft,run under cold water to retain the color.Cool the spinach and run it in the mixie to a nice smooth puree.
• Grind Sliced onions,ginger,garlic,green chillies to a fine paste in the blender.
• Deep fry the baby potatoes(or diced potatoes) in oil or you can even shallow fry (I placed them in a greased oven tray and baked it until it browns on top approx for 10-12 mins).
• Heat oil in a kadai,crackle jeera and add the ground onion mixture and fry until the fat separation happens,now add all the dry masalas and salt and cook for a minute,add the spinach puree and cook for 5-7 mins on a slow flame(Do not close it with a lid which helps in retaining the color).
• Now add the fried potatoes to it and cook for 2 mins.Pour the cream all over.
• Serve it hot with Roti/Naan/Poori and raitha(I made boondi raitha).

Note:

• Avoid cream in the recipe for a Vegan version.

I am sending this to the sowmya's SWC: Cooking with greens Event which was originally started by Lakshmi
and as green is one of my favorite colors and as it is dominated in this dish, this also goes to Curry Leaf's "FIC:Favourite" event which was originally started by Sunshinemom of TongueTicklers .