Saag Aloo

Inspired by the recipe of Anjali Pathak, a famous Anglo Indian cook I decided to make Saag Aloo.

Personally, I don’t eat a lot of spicy food such as curries and kormas but I would argue that Indian recipes are among the most creative around the world and the Saag Aloo allows the potato to shine as the dish’s main ingredient. Different from my preferable western ‘meat and two veg’ meal the Saag Aloo combines potatoes, spinach and some Indian spices to produce a delectable vegetarian meal.

You’ll need:

2x Large potates (I chose King Edwards)

1x Garlic Clove

Chiles

Cuman Powder

Spinnich

Pepper

Masala Spices

Begin by either boiling or steaming the potatoes and chopping them up into roughly ince thick pieces. Prepare a frying pan and add to it the garlic and spices as well as chopped chilli. To this add your potatoes.

Lastly, simply add the spinnich to the mix and cook for a few minutes. The longest part fo the process is waiting for the potatoes to boil; once on the pan it will take minutes!

 I even added a little sour cream and soft cheese to soften the blow from the spices.

Below is a video of Anjali Pathak making the dish for an online cookery show. Such skills she has!

PataksCurClub, (2012) How To Make Saag Aloo, Video With Anjali Pathak [Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APoBVISfa18 April 20th 2012