Paalak Masala

Name: Paalak Masala
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 bunch Spinach (Paalak/Cheera); 1/2 cup Grated Coconut; 2 nos Garlic pods; 2 nos Green chillies; Chilly powder (As reqd); Salt (As reqd); For seasoning:; 3 tsp Oil; 1 tsp Mustard seeds; Thymol seeds(Vaum/Ajwain)

By sonaliS

• September 4, 2002

Paalak Masala

Spinach(Paalak) in coconut paste

Print Recipe

Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

1 bunch Spinach Paalak/Cheera
1/2 cup Grated Coconut
2 nos Garlic pods
2 nos Green chillies
Chilly powder As reqd
Salt As reqd
For seasoning:
3 tsp Oil
1 tsp Mustard seeds
Thymol seeds(Vaum/Ajwain)

Instructions

Wash and cook spinach in water.
Grind it along with grated coconut, green chillies and garlic.
Pour it in a skillet and heat till it starts boiling.
Add salt and chilly powder along with water to make it semi-liquid paste. Boil for few minutes.
Heat oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds and thymol seeds.
Pour it over the prepared gravy.
:- Serve hot with chapathis, parathas or plain rice.

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

Response (5)

s

surya August 18, 2005

Sounds good.I`ll try it out today.But I have heard that palak has really high iron content and so you need to add tomatoes to the curry while cooking..

Reply
S

SIMISUSEEL February 22, 2007

add little dal cooked with salt and green chilly to the cooked palak. add a tspoon vegetable masala to this . really excellent with chappathi…

Reply
K

Karuna November 28, 2005

My husband loved this recipe…and keeps asking me to make it every week…good job and keep it up

Reply
A

Anuradha April 20, 2004

Very tasty and simple

Reply

Load more replies (1)
R

RomyJohn May 10, 2006

Somehow for me with palak it turned really bad but then I made some dal curry and added it with Palak curry and was ok.

Reply