Today was a mood for simple food, going back to the usual daal-chaawal (Lentils with rice) cooked in the typical home style. Nothing fancy.
So to accompany the simple food, I fixed a simpler dish, crackling garlic spinach. & trust me it was awesome, sorry no pictures coz we ate it as soon as it was made. Here's the recipe:
Since it was just three of us & it was my side dish we made just a lill bit of it, so increase the quantities if you like more of leaf.
- Spinach leaves: a small bunch: diced
- Garlic : 7 cloves finely chopped (reduce to 4 cloves if you dont like too much garlic)
- Green Chillies: 4, finely chopped
- Salt: 1/4 teaspoon (adjust as per taste)
- Red chilli powder: 1/4 teaspoon
- Oil to fry: 1 cup
Wash the spinach nicely under running water & drain all the water ensuring that the spinach is fairly dry(moist is fine)
Add salt & red chilli powder into the spinach so that it is evenly spread, & keep it aside for 15 minutes. Some water would seep out of spinach, but that's OK.
Heat oil in a pan, once hot fry the chopped garlic first, & keep aside. Then fry spinach in small amounts.In the end fry the green chilies.
Mix the fried spinach, chilies & garlic, sprinkle a little bit more salt if required. Serve hot.
VARIATIONS:
You can toss into the spinach some butter cooked prawns, or boiled chicken chunks or some cottage cheese, especially the flavored ones to make a great starter.
Hope you enjoy it, I liked it very much with my dose of daal-chawal.
