Navratan Spinach

Navratan Spinach

Ingredients

Spinach (palak) 500 gram
Vegetables (cauliflower, beans, carrot, baby corns) 1 cup
Onions (payaz)finely chopped 2 medium
Garlic (lahsan) finely chopped 2 table spoon
Ginger (adrakh) finely chopped 1 tea spoon
Green chilli (hari mirch) finely chopped 1 tea spoon
Hot spices (garam masala) 1 tea spoon
Black pepper (kali mirch) 1/2 tea spoon
Salt (namak) to taste
Milk (doodh) 1/2 cup
Grated cheese 1 table spoon
Butter 1 table spoon
Vegetables oil 5 table spoon
Raisins and Cashew nuts  (Kismis & Kaju), chopped 1/4 cup
Cream (malai) 2 table spoon

Instructions

  1. Clean, wash and chop spinach and cook it in the pressure cooker for one whistle.
  2. Let it cool and then grind it.
  3. Heat oil in a deep pan and fry vegetables and keep aside. Fry cashew nuts and raisins also and keep them separately.
  4. Now heat another pan and put 1 table spoon of butter in it.
  5. Once it is heated add onions, green chillies, garlic and ginger, cook it till onion becomes brown.
  6. Add chilli powder, pepper powder and cook it for further 2-3 minutes.
  7. Add fried vegetables and cook it for further 5-7 minutes.
  8. Now add blended spinach, milk and salt and cover it and let it cook on low flame for 10- 15 minutes.
  9. Once it gets cooked add fried raisins and cashew nuts and cook it for further 2 -3 minutes.
  10. Sprinkle hot spices and add grated cheese and immediately put off the flame (If you keep it for longer time on heat then cheeses will become hard).
  11. Garnish it with fresh cream and serve it with Nan or Roti.

Tip:

  • 1. As the name (Navratan Korma) suggests, there should be 9 varieties of ingredients. Use spinach along with 5- 6 varieties of vegetables of your choice and 2-3 varieties of dry fruits to make this 9.

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