Curried Spinach & Dill

Recipe Courtesy: Pallavee Amdekar

We are always looking for new ways to incorporate dark green vegetables into our meals. This is a delicious way to bring dill into your repertoire of leafy greens.

This recipe needs several different ingredients that are listed below.

• Chopped Dill- 1 cup
• Chopped spinach- 3 cups
• Peanuts – 1/4 cup
• Split Bengal gram/Chana dal – little less than 1/2 cup
• 2 green chilis chopped
• Besan – 2 tbsp
• Red Chili powder – ¼ tsp
• Dry Red Chilies – 2 nos.
• Tamarind pulp – ½ tsp
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Salt – as per taste

For tempering,

• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Minced garlic – 4 cloves
• Peanuts – 2 tbsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp

Soak chana dal for 2 hours. Pressure cook the chana dal with dill, spinach, ¼ cup peanuts, and green chilies for 4 whistles, till they are softened and well cooked. While dal is cooking, fry the remaining peanuts with little oil till the time they become crunchy. Open the pressure cooker and mix well mashing it. Add besan, tamarind pulp, chili powder, salt and start boiling. It becomes nice and mushy.

For tempering, heat oil. Make a tempering of mustard seeds, minced garlic, dry red chilies, and crunchy peanuts. Pour it on curry.

Notes: You can cook the dal and other ingredients in Instant Pot. You can eat this curry with flatbread or with rice, and can adjust the thickness / consistency per your liking.