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25 min — 10 min prep, 15 min cooking.

Palak Nu Shaak Gujarati

Name: Palak Nu Shaak Gujarati
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Gujarat Indian
Ingredients: 1g Turmeric Powder; 80g Water; 6g green chillies; 40g Peanuts; 30g Gram Flour; 400g Spinach (Palak); 5g salt; 3g Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch); 8g Garlic; 0.5g Asafoetida; 25g oil; 2g Cumin Seeds

Spinach cooked with besan, peanuts, and mild Gujarati spices. Not creamy like Punjab palak — drier, nuttier, with distinct peanut crunch.

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Time 25 min · Serves 4 · 172 kcal · Central Gujarat, Gujarat

Ingredients

Main

Turmeric Powder — 1 g
Water — 80 g
green chillies — 6 g
Peanuts — 40 g
Gram Flour — 30 g
Spinach (Palak) — 400 g
salt — 5 g
Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch) — 3 g
Garlic — 8 g

Tempering

Asafoetida — 0.5 g
oil — 25 g
Cumin Seeds — 2 g

Method

Wash spinach well and chop finely.
Dry roast peanuts and crush them coarsely.
Heat oil. Add cumin and hing. Add chopped garlic and chillies.
Add besan and roast until it smells nutty.
Add spinach, turmeric, chilli powder and salt. Mix well.
Sprinkle water. Cover and cook, stirring often, until dry.
Add crushed peanuts. Cook 1 more minute.
Serve hot with rotli or bajra rotla.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Palak Nu Shaak Gujarati?: 172 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 25 min — 10 min prep, 15 min cooking.

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