Mushroom palak (spinach) curry

• Servings: 4
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Boiling time: 3-4 minutes.
• Frying mushroom time: 6-7 minutes.
• Frying masala time: 10 minutes.
• Cooking time: 3-4 minutes.
• Total time: 35 minutes.

Spinach is without doubt the most important green vegetable contains many different nutrients, vitamins, folic acid, various antioxidants, which keep our skin looking young and bright.

Mushroom has large amount of vitamin D2, it is low calorie food, excellent source of vitamin B.

Ingredients:

• Mushroom: 200 gm
• Palak: 1 bunch (200 gm)
• Onion: 1 no. (Small)
• Tomato: 1 no. (Small)
• Ginger paste: half teaspoon
• Garlic paste: half teaspoon
• Green chilli: 2 no.
• Refined Oil: 3 table spoon
• Cumin seed: half teaspoon
• Clove: 2 no.
• Cinnamon: 1” piece
• Green cardamom: 1 no.
• Mace: 1 small piece
• Butter/Fresh cream: 1 teaspoon (optional)
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: ½ teaspoon
• Red chilli powder: 1 teaspoon
• Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
• Garam masala powder: ¼ teaspoon

Preparation:

1. Peel off each mushroom, chop into two halves, keep aside.
2. Cut onion and green chilli, grind them to smooth paste. Keep aside.
3. Chop tomato, grind to smooth paste. Keep aside.
4. Blanch/Boil or microwave palak for 3 minutes and grind to fine paste.

Method:

1.  Take a heavy bottom pan. Put 2 tablespoon of oil in a pan; when smoke starts coming, add mushroom, stir fry till done, remove and keep aside.
2.  Put remaining oil into the pan. When smoke starts coming, put whole Garam masala (green cardamom, mace, clove, Cumin seed and cinnamon), Sputter it for few seconds; add ground onion paste, garlic and ginger paste, fry these masala till get light brown in colour. (About 2-3 minutes on medium flame).
3. Add tomato paste; Fry these masala till liquid dries up (About 2-3 minutes on medium flame), add red chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder,  continue to fry for few seconds.
4. Add palak paste and salt; put half cup water, and just boil it, add fried mushroom and bring it to boil.
5. Add Garam Masala Powder; transfer it to serving bowl, garnish with Butter.
6. Mushroom palak is ready, serve hot with Tandoori Roti or Dost Paratha.

Mushroom palak (spinach) curry by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.