Thursday, August 18, 2011

Palak Bajji/Spinach Curry/Palak Gojju: Tangy, Spicy & Garlicy

Want to enjoy a meal during sore throat, cold & cough? Prepare palak bajji & enjoy any boring meal. It has the perfect ingredients to give a high to your taste buds. Great news about this curry is, when refrigerated it stays up to a month.


Ingredients: (For around 2 cups of curry)
Spinach/Palak: 3 big bunches (Around 300 grams)
Garlic: 5 pods
Amtekayi: 3 nos (Since this is not available outside India, substitute with a medium grape sized tamarind).
Green chillies: 6 nos, more or less
Salt: According to taste

For tempering:
Oil: 1 tbsp, preferably coconut oil
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Garlic: 4 pods, minced or sliced
Curry leaves: 8-10nos



Method:
  • Wash the spinach leaves along with the stem thoroughly in water. Chop the leaves & the tender stem coarsely. 
  • Add less than 1/2 cup of water to the chopped spinach leaves. To this add garlic, amtekayi or tamarind, green chillies & salt. 
  • Boil on medium-high heat for 10mins or pressure cook for 1 whistle.  Allow them to cool. 
  • Once cooled, puree the mixture. 
  • Heat oil in a pan. When oil is hot, throw in mustard seeds followed by garlic & curry leaves. Saute till the leaves wilt & garlic turns golden brown.
  • Add the spinach puree & adjust the seasoning. Boil on a medium-low heat for 10-15mins until the flavors blend in.
  • Enjoy with ganji/porridge, rice or dosa.

Notes:
  • If amtekayi is used: After boiling the amtekayi, squeeze out the juice & discard the hard portion.
  • Ganji/Kanji/Porridge & this curry is a classic combination. 

12 comments:

  1. I do this some times ...love your recipe ...looks yum

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  2. Did u mention that u used amtekai for this??
    I like d amtekay pickle n not tried anything else wid it..so it sounds interesting..:)
    looks yumm n healthy too

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  3. Woww healthy gojju,simply inviting..

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  4. This is deliciously green. Looks so healthy and yummy :)

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  5. very similar to keerai masiyal that we make at home! love pureed spinach with spices!

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  6. Haven't heard of amtekai... Lovely way to eat spinach!!
    http://krithiskitchen.blogspot.com/

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  7. wow. what a colour..love it...

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  8. deliicous and interesting one.with the addition of garlic this must be very flavourful too

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  9. Finger licking good!!! Nice addition of amtekai...We always make a dish called menaskai from it..a speciality of udipi,..But this dish is a refreshing change...Healthy too...Bookmarked...
    Prathima Rao
    Prats Corner

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  10. looks tempting and delicious.

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  11. Hmmm this recipe looks so delicious and nice and i think that fits perfect with my taste and in my opinion is a very easy recipe, so i think i will try it. Thanks for sharing.

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