18 December 2023

Spinach in Yogurt Sauce

 Spinach in Yogurt Sauce is a mouth watering  home made food  , by adding healthy spinach along with yogurt-gram flour sauce. Normally it is an Indian cuisine dish it is not only tasty but also very tasty.This dish is very healthy because  we use only very little amount of oil in this preparation and there is no deep frying and there is minimal usage of spices . The extra taste of this recipe is because of the usage of cumin seeds, dried red chili along with ghee. This gives extra fragrance and mild spice taste to this yogurt curry. It only require 30 minutes of  preparation .Mainly it is used as a side dish with variety of rice items it can also be used with roti's  or chapati.

Prep time:10 minutes 

Cook time:15 minutes

Total time: 25 minutes

Servings:4


INGREDIENTS :

  • 250 gram baby spinach 
  • 1/2 cup onion sliced
  • 3 fresh chilly 
  • 1 tablespoon chopped ginger
  • 3/4 cup yogurt
  • 3 tablespoon gram flour
  • 1  teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 2  tablespoon oil
  • salt
  • 2 cup water
  • 1/4  teaspoon fenugreek seed

For tempering:

  • 2  tablespoon ghee
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 dried chili

  • INSTRUCTIONS:

    • In a bowl add yoghurt, gram flour, turmeric,salt, water and mix it until it is lump free.
    • Heat oil in medium heat and add fenugreek seeds, then once seeds color changed  add chopped onions, ginger and chili.
    • Once onion becomes lightly fried add yoghurt mixture on low heat.
    • Cook for 9 minutes until the flour cooks and add salt.
    • Add spinach ,mix well and simmer over medium heat, until it cooks completely( for 6 to 7 minutes)
    • Turn off heat when.
    • For tempering heat oil or ghee in a small pan and add dried chili, cumin  and the chili powder , cook for a minute and pour it over the spinach mix.
    • Tempering is optional, but it makes the curry more tasty. Using ghee makes it even more tastier.