Palak with badis (MIL's recipe)

Boil paalak with ginger and garlic.  Blend.

Saute the badis.

Heat oil.  Add finely chopped onion.  When brown, add finely chopped tomatoes.  Add turmeric and red chilli pwdrs.  Once tomatoes are cooked, add the badis and palak.  Cook for a few mins.  Garnish with garam masala pwdr.

Palak Moong Chilka 

Serves 4

250 gms palak, chopped

1/2 cup moong chilka dal

1 inch piece of ginger, finely chopped

1 onion, finely chopped

Jeera seeds

1/2 tsp garam masala

1 tsp red chilli pwdr

1/2 tsp dhania pwdr

1/4 tsp amchoor

Salt

Mix together dal, palak, ginger, salt and 3 cups of water and pressure cook.

Heat oil.  Add jeera, then fry onion.  Add pwdrs and saute for a minute.  Add to dal.

 Week 9 - Amma's salad

Ingredients

• 2 cup boiled and shelled peanuts (can be replaced with dried white peas soaked overnight and pressure-cooked or fresh green peas or cooked chickpeas)
• 1/2 cup tomatoes, seeded and chopped
• 1/2 cup chopped spinach, blanched
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped (none for Darshu)
• juice of 1/2 a lemon
• 1/4 tsp chaat masala
• Salt and pepper

Method

            Mix everything and enjoy.

Sangi’s palak paneer

Fry onions and tomato, garlic, ginger, pepper.  Blanch palak.
Grind everything. Heat oil, add haldi, coriander powder, jeera
powder, salt.  Add palak mixture. Then add paneer.

Spinach and corn balls

Maida 1 tsp
Corn 1 small cup
Spinach 1 small bunch
Boiled rice 1 cup
Salt to taste
Chilli powder (optional)

Chop spinach fine. Add butter to a kadai. Mix all the ingredients together, roll into balls and fry in oil.

Potato and bread kofta in spinach gravy

I have a non-stick paniyaram pan which I rarely use. Then after going through few blogs, I realized I could use it to make koftas. You need to use only few drops of oil and the koftas are quite tasty. Last night I made koftas with bread and potato and then cooked them in a spinach gravy. I got this recipe idea from Priyas's Recipes. I will be using the paniyaram pan more often now! Will make manchurian next time...

Spinach Cucumber Peanuts Salad

Sprouts Salad