Palak corn curry -A healthy and delicious curry made with spinach and corn
Palak corn curry is a very delicious curry from Punjabi cuisine. It is quite easy to make . You don’t need much ingredients to make this healthy Makai palak curry. Some spinach, corn kernels, tomato and few basic spices are needed and you can make it easily.
For making palak corn/ spinach corn curry you have to wash and blanch the spinach leaves. Then add spinach in cold water to stop cooking it further. This method also helps to retain the bright green color of the spinach.
After blanching grind spinach and then grind tomato ,green chilies and ginger . Hear ghee or oil in a pan and hen add tomato paste and stir fry till it start leaving the sides , add spinach, corn ,spices and cook further.
You can make it richer and creamier by adding cream in it. This delicious curry can be served with jeera rice, pulao ,steamed rice or roti.
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Palak Corn Curry / Makai Palak
Ingredients
- 2 bunch Spinach leaves/ palak patta 500 gm
- 2 cup Corn Kernels / Makai Dana boiled
- 3 Tomatoes / Tamatar
- 4 Green chilies/Hari Mirch
- 1 tsp Ginger / Adrak
- 2 tsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras
- to taste Salt / Namak
- pinch Sugar / Chini
- 1/3 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 1/3 tsp Garam Masala Powder
- 1 tsp Dried Fenugreek / Kasoori Methi
- 2 tbsp Fresh cream optional
tempering/ tadka
- 2.5 tbsp Cooking oil
- 1 tbsp Clarified Butter / Desi Ghee
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 3 Green cardamom
- 2 Cloves / Lavang
- 1/2 inch Cinnamon /daalchini
- 2 Bay Leaves / Tej Patta
Instructions
- Trim the hard and thick stems of spinach and wash it well.
- Heat enough water in a pan and add 1/3 tsp of sugar in it.
- When water start boiling add the spinach leaves and cook for around 30 seconds .
- Now remove the leaves from the pan and immedietely add in a bowl of ice cold water(to retain the bright green colour)
- Grind the spinach leaves and make a smooth puree.
- Grind together tomato,green chilies and ginger and make a paste.
- Heat oil and butter in a pan and add cumin seeds,cardamom,cloves,cinnamon and bay leaves.
- When cumin become golden then add the tomato puree and turmeric powder.
- Saute till tomato puree start leaving the oil.
- Now add spinach puree,crushed kasoori methi and boiled corn and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Then add salt,sugar,garam masala and fresh cream and simmer for a minute.
- Add lemon juice and serve hot.
- Serving suggestions-serve with jeera rice,chapati or pooris.
Notes
1-Can replace fresh cream with 1/2 cup of fresh milk
2-Can use 1/2 cup of fresh fenugreek leaves instead of kasoori methi.
Sunita says
Tried this..came out very well..than you very much
anjanaskc says
Thank You !Glad you liked it 🙂
Udipi says
Made this today and it turned out delicious. Thank you so much.
Kalyani says
I made this Anjana ji with a slight variation to make it Gluten free and Vegan too 🙂 thanks for a SAtvik recipe. Heres a linkback to ur blog from mine : http://www.sizzlingtastebuds.com/2016/03/jain-style-corn-palak-hoe-to-make-makai.html
Cheers
Kalyani
Veena Theagarajan says
healthy and tasty combo
Sona S says
Looks absolutely delicious, nice combo.
Shruti says
What a combo of ingredients in curry 🙂 Superb…
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Sangeetha Priya says
healthy n delicious combo…