Our everyday meals are predominantly vegetarian. Beans or lentils are our daily source of protein. Today's post is a nutritious mix of healthy greens and everyone's favorite chickpeas.
Ingredients:
Baby Spinach/Palak leaves - 3 cups
Dry Chickpeas/Garbanzo Beans/Kabuli Chana - 1 cup
Onion - 1 big
Dry Chickpeas/Garbanzo Beans/Kabuli Chana - 1 cup
Onion - 1 big
Tomatoes - 2 medium
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp
Green Chili Paste - 1/2 tsp
Green Chili Paste - 1/2 tsp
Fennel Seeds/Saunf - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds/Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds/Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Cilantro/Coriander Leaves - few sprigs
Garam Masala or any other spice mix - 1/4 tsp
Salt
Oil
How to cook Chole in a Spinach Sauce:
How to cook Chole in a Spinach Sauce:
- Soak chickpeas for 6 - 8 hours. After soaking, 1 cup chickpeas will turn to 2 cups. Wash the soaked chickpeas and cook till soft with 2 - 3 cups water. You can use Canned Chickpeas as well.
- Finely chop onions. Puree spinach leaves, tomatoes and fennel seeds to a smooth paste. Add little water if required.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan, add cumin seeds. After few seconds, add chopped onions and sauté until onions turn soft.
- Now add the spinach tomato puree, ginger garlic paste, green chilli paste and salt. Cook it covered. When it starts boiling, add cooked chickpeas and garam masala. Cook it covered for 5 - 10 minutes or until you get the desired consistency.
Garnish with cilantro leaves and/or raw onions and serve with roti and/or rice.
Palak is the most fav green in my family :-)and this is a new combo for me to try,thanks :-)
ReplyDeletewow ... looks delicious.... very new to me. I am so going to try this recipe. Thanks Uma. One question ... we grind raw spinach?
ReplyDeleteThanks Gulmohar, Preeti for stopping by!
ReplyDeletePreeti, yes! grind raw spinach.
nice combination with spinach!
ReplyDeleteChanna palak looks awesome and truly healthy...love it..
ReplyDeleteWe love palak...and this curry too..yours looks really yummy and tempting..
ReplyDeletehi uma how are you
ReplyDeletegreat chenna with chepati cool love to eat both
I am a big Palak Fan..and just love anything cook by palak..the dish looks superb...sounds superb and i bet must be tastes superb too....
ReplyDeletewe love spinach..if u combine it with dal it will give a nice flavour ..
ReplyDeletethis channa palak looks delicious..yummy yummy dear.
very healthy and yummy recipe. nice click too.
ReplyDeleteIts tempting. I love to have it with chapathi. And its a nice snap.
ReplyDeleteThis Kabuli Chana Palak recipe looks nice and delicious. Thanks
ReplyDeleteVery healthy n delicious combo curry,,good with pooris...
ReplyDeleteNice combo uma, healthy and delicious
ReplyDeleteCurry looks rich n perfect...
ReplyDeleteHealthy delicious curry dear :-)
ReplyDeletenew combo for me and so healthy!
ReplyDeleteVery nice and new combination of chickpeas and spinach.
ReplyDeletehi uma wats special in home today
ReplyDeleteThanks Priya, Harman, Jagruti, knk, Kamalika, Prani, Suhaina, womenwisdom, Parad, Sathya, Sushma, Jay, Aruna, Kshipra, Sridevi for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteknk, nothing special.. same old routine :)
Hy Uma,
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My mum loves this! Simply yumm Uma! ;)
ReplyDeleteHappy Weekend dearie!
If you don't like spinach this is indeed a great way to incorporate in your diet.
ReplyDeletedeadly combination for me...chana masala jo meri mom banati hai i just love that...and i am sure ye bhi utni hi delicious hogi :) paani aa gaya muh mein :)
ReplyDeleteby the way, sorry uma ji...i missed some of ur posts...actually work pressure is on maximum this time. :(
Thanks Jay for the awards dear!
ReplyDeleteThanks Love2Cook, Nostalgia, Abhi for stopping by!
Healthy curry looks yummy
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