Spinach chutney ( Palak ki chutney )

Hello friends,
Namaskar....

I am Sangeeta Agarwal and heartily welcome you at my food blog.

# Today I have made "Spinach chutney" at my home so I am sharing its easy but very healthy recipe with you.

#  Spinach is full of fiber and water content. It is rich in minerals, iron, potassium and calcium too.
It helps in curing constipation and host of tummy problems.

So do intake spinach in any form as you like it.

# Let us start the "Spinach chutney recipe".

# Ingredients For Spinach Chutney...

1. Fresh spinach....250 gram ( 2 bunch )
2. Tomatoes...2 small
3. Coriander leaves...2 Table spoon
4. Lemon juice..1 small
5. Green chillies....4
6. Ginger...1 inch
7. Asafoetida...1 pinch
8. Cumin seeds...1/2 Tea spoon
9. Rock salt....1/2 Tea spoon
10. Black salt....1/2 Tea spoon

#  Ingredients For Tadka ...

1. Mustard oil...2 Table spoon
2. Mustard seeds...1/2 Tea spoon
3. Cumin seeds....1/2 Tea spoon
4. Asafoetida...1 pinch
5. Curry leaves....15
6. Dry whole red chili..2

# Method Of Making...

1. Firstly, wash the spinach well in an open water.
Then dip the spinach in the water with a little salt for 20 minutes so that all the impurities could come out.

2. Either blanch it in the boiling water for few minutes for maintaining its green colour, or pressure cook it till one whistle without water.

3. Let it pressure down and place the boiled spinach on a strainer so that extra water could come out.

4. Then add all ingredients of chutney like....chopped tomatoes, lemon juice, cumin seeds, asafoetida, coriander leaves, salt, chopped green chillies and ginger to this boiled spinach and grind it in the mixer jar as a smooth paste.
If  needed...add few spoons of water in the Chutney.

5. Take out the Chutney in a bowl.

6. Now prepare the tadka for chutney..
Just take a tadka pan and place it on the medium flame.
Add 2 spoon mustard oil or butter...as it heats up, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds to crackle.
Add asafoetida, Curry leaves,  broken dry red chillies and saute it for a nice flavour and taste.

7. Just transfer this tadka in the Spinach chutney and mix well.

#  In this way, delicious and nutritious spinach chutney is ready to serve.
Serve it with chapatis, Parantha, poori,rice, pakora and dal.

#  Note..

1. For making any Spinach dish...Spinach should be fresh and well washed.

2. In place of blanching spinach...You can cook it directly in the Kadhai with tomatoes and other ingredients except lemon juice, ginger , green chillies and coriander leaves,  with a spoon oil.

Let it cool and transfer it in the mixer jar and grind it with left Ingredients as a smooth paste.

3. If you avoid oil in the firm of tadka..
just eat it plain...It will taste nice even then.

Thanku Friends,
Thanks again.