Palak Mashiyal

Palak Mashiyal

This recipe was one that I learnt from a close family friend Jayashree chechi. I always ask her to make this for me whenever I visit her home and she used to always make it most lovingly for me. So, this recipe is dedicated to our Jayashree chechi.

Ingredients

Palak                    – 3 bunches, chopped

Onion                   – 1 big chopped

Whole red chillies – 2-3 broken into pieces

Pappad(raw)        – 2-3 roughly torn into pieces

Coconut Oil         – 2 Tbsp

Turmeric pwd      – ¼ tsp

Chilli pwd            – ½  tsp

Salt                     – as required

Method

• Heat the coconut oil in a wok and add the chopped onions and red chillies. Stir fry for some time until onion turns translucent.
• Now, add the torn bits of pappad and continue frying until the pappad gets cooked and puffs up. This will hardly take a minute or so.
• At this stage low the flame and add the powders; turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt. Mix well and sauté until the raw smell goes.
• Add the chopped palak , mix really well and increase the flame to high and stir fry continuously until the all the water that gets released from the palak evaporates and its colour slightly changes to a darker shade of green.  Remove from flame and serve hot with rice or chappathi.