Aloo palak recipe

Updated on January 1, 2022 by Raks Anand 74 Comments

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Aloo palak is a healthy side dish recipe, in which potato is cooked with Indian spinach. This is very rich and creamy tasting side dish, without any much fatty things.

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I had aloo palak for the first time only last year in a friends home, when they served it along with vegetable rice.

I had no idea about the taste of it until that day. It was yummy and Aj & Vj too loved it.

Was thinking why I had not tried making at home so far. Even at restaurants I have never thought of tasting such a nice dish.

I make palak paneer at home as Aj loves it and I thought can make it the same way except for the panner I can add aloo.

So I adapted the base recipe even more simpler to make and made this aloo palak.

And it turned out finger licking good! It's perfect for weekend lunch.

I made it along with peas pulao and it was perfect for it. You can also make it as side dish for roti.

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Aloo palak is a healthy side dish recipe, in which potato is cooked with Indian spinach. This is very rich and creamy tasting side dish, without any much fatty things.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Author Raks Anand

Servings 3 people

Cup measurements

Ingredients

2 cups Palak Indian spinach, tightly packed
3 Potato
1 Onion
2 Tomato
4 Green chillies
1 teaspoon Ginger garlic paste
¼ teaspoon Garam masala powder
2 teaspoon Coriander powder - 2 tsp
½ teaspoon Pepper powder - ½ tsp
1 teaspoon Kasoori methi
¼ teaspoon Sugar
¼ cup Milk
Salt

To temper

2 teaspoon Oil
1 inch Cinnamon
1 Cardamom
1 Clove

Instructions

Cook potatoes firstly and peel it, cube it. You can either pressure cook potatoes for 3-4 whistles in medium flame or boil as cubes as such.
Separate the leaves of spinach from the thick stem running in the middle of the leaf firstly.
After that, wash and clean the leaves.
Then, heat a pan and add the washed leaves, green chillies and cook in medium flame. The water in the leaves is enough to cook the leaves.
Cook until the leaves reduce in volume. Set aside.
Heat oil in the pan and add the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Just give it a fry and add finely chopped onions.
1 inch Cinnamon, 1 Cardamom, 1 Clove, 2 teaspoon Oil
Fry till transparent. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute.
Meanwhile, after palak cools down and grind it to a smooth paste.
Add chopped tomatoes and required salt and fry furthermore till mushy.
Add coriander powder and kasoori methi. Fry for a minute.
Tip in the ground palak puree, sugar and cook in medium flame for 2 minutes.
Add ¼ cup water while it gets cooked.
In goes the boiled, cubed potatoes, salt and mix well.
Pour milk at this time and mix well. Cook in medium flame. Do not boil in high flame.
Cook for 2 minutes.
Lastly add garam masala and pepper powder. Mix well and switch off the stove.

Notes

Adding sugar retains the color of the spinach.
You can skip ginger garlic paste and add either finely chopped ginger or chopped garlic while frying onion.
Instead of boiling potatoes and adding as such, you can deep fry until golden brown and add to the gravy.

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1. Cook potatoes firstly and peel it, cube it. You can either pressure cook potatoes for 3-4 whistles in medium flame or boil as cubes as such.

Separate the leaves of spinach from the thick stem running in the middle of the leaf firstly.

After that, wash and clean the leaves.

Then, heat a pan and add the washed leaves, green chillies and cook in medium flame. The water in the leaves is enough to cook the leaves.

Cook until the leaves reduce in volume. Set aside.

Heat oil in the pan and add the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Just give it a fry and add finely chopped onions.1 inch Cinnamon,1 Cardamom,1 Clove,2 teaspoon Oil

Fry till transparent.

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2. Meanwhile, after palak cools down and grind it to a smooth paste. Cook potatoes and peel it, cube it.

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3. Add chopped tomatoes and required salt and fry till mushy. Add coriander powder and kasoori methi. Fry for a minute.

Add the ground palak puree, sugar and cook in medium flame for 2 minutes. Add ¼ cup water while it gets cooked.

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4. Tip in the boiled, cubed potatoes, salt and mix well. Add milk at this time and mix well. Cook in medium flame. Do not boil in high flame.

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5. Cook for 2 minutes. Lastly add garam masala and pepper powder. Mix well and switch off the stove.

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Serve with rice or roti. We had with peas pulao! Its yummy and healthy too! No much oil too in this.

Aloo palak recipe | Potato spinach gravy - Raks Kitchen (9)

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Akila
June 18, 2012 at 12:08 pm

I am drooling over here... beautiful clicks...
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Tina
June 18, 2012 at 12:12 pm

healthy and delicious...
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Sangeetha Nambi
June 18, 2012 at 12:14 pm

Healthy and Tasty one... Thanks for ur tip...
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APARNARAJESHKUMAR
June 18, 2012 at 1:10 pm

lovely dish 🙂
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Agnieszka Jarecka
June 18, 2012 at 1:15 pm

This is one of my favourite Indian dishes. Depending on my mood I change herbs and spices I add to it.
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Rinku Naveen
June 18, 2012 at 1:22 pm

Wow! that looks so yumm..Loved that last shot 🙂
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Kousa's Kitchen
June 18, 2012 at 1:28 pm

lovely!!! U forget to mention about green chili's in that procedure but I can see its added with spinach. we can add the green chili as such while grinding the spinach rite?
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Ramya
June 18, 2012 at 1:32 pm

What a lovely color raks!! Lovely clicks as always!
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Jingalala
June 18, 2012 at 1:34 pm

The clicks are really Lovellly Raks! Whenever I visit your site, I get the sense of trying it and eating it immediately!
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Chitra
June 18, 2012 at 2:29 pm

Lovely dish. will try for sure 🙂
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Archana
June 18, 2012 at 2:45 pm

What a lovely colour.
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June 18, 2012 at 2:46 pm

Superb click Raks
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Anu
June 18, 2012 at 3:18 pm

Perfectly done raji, love those bright green colors.
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Sudha Sabarish
June 18, 2012 at 3:56 pm

What a coincidence Raji.Today i was thinking to search this recipe and u've posted it.Will try within a week .
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Muraligeetham
June 18, 2012 at 3:57 pm

good recipe! palak is there in my fridge ..will surely try out this!
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Shama Nagarajan
June 18, 2012 at 3:59 pm

delicious dear
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Paaka Shaale
June 18, 2012 at 4:59 pm

Lovely curry and stunning pictures. An awesome post 🙂
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Hamaree Rasoi
June 18, 2012 at 5:11 pm

Delicious and healthy recipe. Just admiring the look of it.
Deepa
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Reshmi Mahesh
June 18, 2012 at 6:17 pm

Healthy and yummy recipe...Love the color..
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Richa
June 18, 2012 at 9:32 pm

love your step by step pictures and the gorgeous color!
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Priya
June 18, 2012 at 9:52 pm

Omg, wat an incredible gravy..simply loving it.
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Sanoli Ghosh
June 18, 2012 at 10:30 pm

Admire its looks.....healthy and tasty recipe. Do visit of mine at your free time. http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.com
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Shabitha Karthikeyan
June 18, 2012 at 11:04 pm

Good one raji !! Love this anytime !! I think u forgot to add the addition of green chillies while grinding the palak...
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sowmya's creative saga
June 19, 2012 at 12:35 am

nice..a beautiful sidedish to go with your rotis..
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Nagashree
June 19, 2012 at 2:30 am

Lovely, I do it the same way. Deep fried potato tastes yummier but I usually avoid it as the addition of milk turns the gravy quite rich.
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Saraswathi Iyer
June 19, 2012 at 3:04 am

Looks tempting, I also make dry version. Nice clicks.
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Divya Kudua
June 19, 2012 at 3:13 am

I've been planning to try this recipe ever since we had the same at a restaurant.I believe potatoes make any curry stand out among the rest and this one is no different.Love the bright green colour of the gravy!
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Aarthi
June 19, 2012 at 3:48 am

yummy palak curry
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Kaveri Venkatesh
June 19, 2012 at 9:07 am

Lovely green curry...Looks very yum
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Gayathri NG
June 19, 2012 at 9:10 am

Ddelicious n healthy gravy, appealing color!!
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Tally
June 19, 2012 at 3:55 pm
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leanne
June 19, 2012 at 5:24 pm

This looks so so yummy! I cant wait to try!! 🙂 Beautiful pictures by the way! x
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Sharmilee! :)
June 20, 2012 at 9:13 am

Not a big fan of anything with greens in gravies...but guess this thick creamy sidedish will change my mind, looks tempting
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Prathibha
June 20, 2012 at 9:59 am

I love this one..nice n creamy and more importantly wid spinach,yummy
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Satya
June 20, 2012 at 12:28 pm

delicious n tempting...yummy
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Harini
June 20, 2012 at 5:22 pm

Looks delicious. This is what I am making for dinner tonight 🙂
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Hema
June 21, 2012 at 4:58 am

Very delicious, love that rich green color..
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Prathima Rao
June 21, 2012 at 8:04 am

This is a fav at home...ur version looks too good Raks..The color is vivid green too..Love it!!
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Veena Theagarajan
June 21, 2012 at 4:16 pm

Very nice clicks our family Favourite
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faseela
June 21, 2012 at 8:36 pm

yummy healthy n delicious,.....
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R.Punitha
June 22, 2012 at 8:15 am

Hi Rajeswari ,
Aloo palak looks delicious and
neat presentation 🙂
one request to you Rak ,
I posted a guest post at Lavanya's blog.
Do drop a comment at Lavanya's recipes....
thank you Rak and Keep on:)
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runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com
June 22, 2012 at 9:59 am

Healthy and delicious and simple to follow. Nice!
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jeyashrisuresh
June 26, 2012 at 1:18 am

Wonderful gravy with the combo of aloo and palak. Love the vibrant green color
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Anonymous
June 27, 2012 at 3:05 am

WOW - I am so happy I have found this site - I love home style cooking but have no one to teach me - now I can learn from all these step by step pictures! Spinach is my FAVOURITE!!
Thanks!
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Jean
June 27, 2012 at 3:11 am

Love the dish..it's so green. :)Thanks for sharing your recipe. 🙂
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neha
July 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Hi there... i tried this recipe... turned out grt.. my family really appreciated the new dish ..:) and i must add... i have tried 2 other recipes... shahi paneer and bhindi masala... n they r our hot favourites with roti.. 🙂
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fuhad rasheed
August 19, 2012 at 1:00 am

i'm totally smitten totally in love with you... bachelors lyk me are now top chefs
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Unknown
October 04, 2012 at 6:02 am

This receipe is definitely a keeper..wonderful taste.Thanks!!
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Aishwarya Ragupathi
October 16, 2012 at 9:13 am

Yummmy.... I prepared this with jeera rice and my entire family enjoyed 🙂 Thanks Raks...
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Aishwarya Ragupathi
October 16, 2012 at 9:13 am

Yummmmy..... I prepared this last night with jeera rice and my entire family enjoyed it... 🙂
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ravi kumar
December 25, 2012 at 9:16 am

it is very oil less dish and very tasty good for health
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ravi kumar
December 25, 2012 at 9:16 am

it is very oil less dish and very tasty good for health
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Tar
January 28, 2013 at 3:24 am

I have made Palak dishes for years now. But I must say, this turned out to be the best palak dish forever. Its so mild in its flavors, and yet so yummmmmm... My family wiped the wok clean. Thank you for this!
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Rohan Shah
February 20, 2013 at 4:20 pm

Saw this recipe and made it for lunch! Simply yummy!!
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Rohan Shah
February 20, 2013 at 4:21 pm

Saw this today and had it for lunch! Simply awesome
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Chitra Visalakshi
March 14, 2013 at 4:55 pm

Thank u for the lovely recipe, trying it for dinner tonight. ♥ ur blog!
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Priyanka Mukherjee
March 26, 2013 at 1:48 am

hi
tried this recipe today with minor adjustments to suit our palate.
it turned out delicious. everyone enjoyed it a lot.
cheers,
Priyanka.
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Rachana Deshpande
May 10, 2013 at 3:48 am

hey. tried out your recipe today! turned out great.. thanks!!1
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meghna
October 30, 2013 at 8:55 am

Awsome recipe...mixd sweet corn wid this..n its tasty...
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Rajathraj
November 02, 2013 at 7:52 am

Very Nice recipes..
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Aparna Desai
January 24, 2014 at 12:38 am

Do we need to add oil while cooking spinach leaves? I didn't get that....
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Aparna Desai
January 27, 2014 at 7:27 am

Do we need to add oil while cooking spinach leaves? I didn't get that....
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Raks anand
January 27, 2014 at 7:32 am

No need to add oil. I have said water that is in the leaves after washing, is enough to cook them. No oil
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Kavitha
February 07, 2014 at 12:20 am

can we add cream instead of milk?
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Lakshmi Sridhar
July 07, 2014 at 8:04 am

Hi, I have tried this one, it came just awesome.... beautifully explained.... i got typical green colour gravy for first time i can say.... thanks for sharing....
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Lakshmi Sridhar
July 07, 2014 at 8:04 am

Hi/... have tried your recipe, this one comes just the super way.... thanks for sharing....
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Gaya3
July 16, 2014 at 1:54 am

Hi,
The milk added must be boiled milk or chill milk ?
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Raks anand
July 16, 2014 at 1:56 am

Anything will be fine, if its fresh milk, then for safer side, you can use boiled cold milk.
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Komathi Murugan
February 14, 2015 at 12:14 pm

hi
it looks awesome.. i tried this recipe and its come out really super.. thanks for the recipe
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Nanthini Sukumaran
March 23, 2015 at 12:16 am

Can't wait to try this for dinner... Feeling yummy now itself.. Awww... Already tried two of your recipes.. Became fan of this blog and you..
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apexsha
January 16, 2016 at 9:00 am

Can I skip the garam masala in this recipe? As my family is allergic..Is there a substitute I could replace with?
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Raks anand
January 16, 2016 at 9:07 am

You mean the powder? Yes you can just skip it and try
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Saranya Prabhakaran
January 13, 2017 at 12:24 am

Awesome Recipes
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Raks anand
January 13, 2017 at 12:33 am

Thanks
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