Simple Sag Aloo

Shared a recipe for this on Bluesky today and made a bit of a mess of it so below is a more carefully written out one. If you like this sort of thing, I’ve written up a short “booklet” of my favourite recipes, which you can download here:

Ingredients:

6 – 8 new potatoes / 2 large potatoes, cut into roughly 2 cm cubes 

Same volume of frozen spinach – leaves or chopped

1 medium / large onion, diced

1 teaspoon cumin seeds

½ teaspoon ground turmeric

1 teaspoon ground coriander

4-5 cloves minced garlic

2 inches grated fresh ginger

2 tablespoons of vegetable oil

Salt to taste

Method:

  1. Heat vegetable oil in pot and add cumin seeds and let them sizzle for about a minute, making sure they turn brown, but don’t burn.
  2. Add garlic and fry on medium heat til golden brown
  3. Add onion and fry til soft and translucent 
  4. Add ginger and continue cooking til onion light brown
  5. Add potatoes and stir well, leave for a couple of minutes.
  6. Add turmeric and ground coriander and stir well, leave for a minute.
  7. Add salt and stir well. 
  8. Add a splash of water, just enough to cover base of pan, and cook on low / medium heat til potatoes done
  9. Stir in frozen spinach and cook til it is all defrosted and warmed through.

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