Steps to Prepare Andrew Copley Alu Palak

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, alu palak. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Alu Palak is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Alu Palak is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook alu palak using 17 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Alu Palak:

1. Make ready Palak Prep
2. Make ready spinach
3. Get garlic cloves whole
4. Make ready ginger, peeled
5. Take green chillies (+/- 2 for spice adjustment)
6. Prepare For the gravy
7. Take diced onions
8. Make ready & 1/2 cups puréed tomatoes
9. Get garlic cloves minced
10. Make ready ginger minced
11. Get hing
12. Make ready cumin seeds
13. Prepare red chilli powder (+ / - 1 for spice adjustment)
14. Take garam masala
15. Take haldi
16. Take ginger sliced into small thin slices
17. Make ready diced potatoes

Instructions to make Alu Palak:

1. In a vessel, bring water to boil
2. Add the spinach in the water, cover and cook for 1 minute
3. Strain the hot water and immerse the spinach in cold water, the cooking process must stop at this point
4. Add the spinach, green chillies, ginger and garlic (from spinach prep section) to a mixer and make a smooth paste (add as little water as possible to make the paste)
5. Keep the paste aside
6. Boil the diced potatoes until they are just undercooked (1 whistle in a cooker should do the game)
7. Shock the potatoes by immersing then in cold water, the cooking process should stop for the potatoes to ooze out excess starch
8. Take a pan, heat oil
9. Shallow fry the parboiled potatoes until they are golden in colour
10. Keep the potatoes aside
11. Take a wok / kadhai and heat oil
12. Add hing
13. Add cumin seeds and wait for them to sizzle
14. Once they start sizzling, add the minced garlic and ginger (not the sliced)
15. Fry until the aroma fills up (1 minute max)
16. Add diced onions and fry until they are translucent
17. Add all spice powders and stir well for 30 seconds
18. Add the tomatoes, followed by salt and stir for 1 minute
19. Cover and cook the tomatoes until they ooze out the oil from the dish (keep stirring in between)
20. Add the sliced ginger and stir for 1 minute
21. Mix the spinach paste we made in the wok
22. Cover and cook for about 12 minutes, tasting the dish after about 10 minutes to ensure the raw taste of ground chilli and garlic is no longer dominant
23. Add the potatoes and cook on slow heat for 3-4 minutes more
24. Enjoy the serving along with some roti and / or jeera rice

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