Comfort food: spinach curry recipe

Ingredients

• Spinach (as required)
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 onion
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp red chilli
• Urad dal and channa dal (1 tsp each)
• 3 tbsp oil
• Salt (as required)
• 2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 2 tsp ginger garlic paste

Instructions

1. Pour the oil in a pan and heat it for a minute.
2. Add the mustard, urad dal, cumin, channa dal, red chilli and stir until the dals become light brown. Add the ginger garlic paste.
3. Chop the onions and tomatoes and add them to the pan. Stir well until the onions change colour and the tomatoes have softened.
4. Chop the spinach leaves and add them to the pan.
5. Add salt and the turmeric powder.
6. Add the garam masala and red chilli powder.
7. Stir the mixture well and sprinkle in some water so that the mixture settles and blends well.
8. Let it heat for 15 minutes. Keep stirring occasionally.
9. After 15 minutes, you will get an aroma of spinach and mixed spices.The spinach curry is now ready to eat!

Recipe Notes

PS: Adding potatoes elevates the taste. Add one potato to this recipe, if you are a potato lover like me. The cooking time in this case will increase by 5-10 minutes. In another variation, you can prepare dal separately and mix this curry with it –making a dal-spinach gravy, which goes well with both rice and chapati.

Recipe by

Ganesh Murthy