Tasty and green?! It’s unheard of!
This is a great recipe for getting in a big bunch of greens or using up some greens if you’ve got a garden.
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp oil, split
- 250g silverbeet/spinach/kale/green leafy
- 200g feta (or for a vegan or allergy-friendly version, use semi-firm tofu)
- A good grind of pepper
- 1/4 tsp ground cardmom (equivalent to 1 cardamom)
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves (equivalent to 2 cloves)
- 1 large diced red onion
- 1 tablespoon fresh or minced ginger
- 2 garlic cloves or 2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 diced chilli
- 1 tin diced tomato
- 1 pinch sugar
- 4 tsp tomato sauce
- 3/4 level tsp salt
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1/3 cup milk (or soy milk)
Method
- Heat to medium 1 tbsp of oil in a wide pan and add the spinach (or green leafy)
- Stir occasionally and cook for 10 minutes before removing from heat and allowing to cool
- Once cool, blend the green leafy into a purée
- Chop the feta or tofu into 1cm cubes
- Heat the remaining 2 tbsp of oil
- Sauté the onion for 2-3 minutes until slightly browned
- Add ginger, garlic & chilli and sauté for 2-3 more minutes
- Add tomatoes, sugar, pepper, cardamom and cloves and cook for another 2-3 minutes
- Pour in the spinach purée, salt and heat through
- Add milk and garam masala
- Serve with brown basmati rice or bread. This dish improves with a day or two of ageing in the fridge.
Inspired by Food52.
Tags: Basmati Brown Basmati Cheese Delicious Dinner Eat Feta food green Healthy Kale Lunch Palak paneer Recipe Rice Silverbeet Spinach Tasty Vegan
I heard that this was an absolutely delicious dish, and I am curious. Isnt it wonderful that there are so many ways in the world to make food. Is your recipe hot? meaning you put red pepper or hot palak? This Indian dish combines fresh spinach and ricotta in a creamy palak paneer. Use paneer if you can find it! It is absolutely wonderful with basmati rice or naan.