PAALAK CHANA

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time:20 minutes

Serves:6-8

Ingredients:
For Paalak

1 bunch paalk(spinach)

1 onion chopped

1 tomato chopped

1 green chili

1" ginger chopped

5-6 cloves garlic

1/2 cup tomato puree

1 tbsp gram flour

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp catch sabzi masala

1/2 tsp degi mirch

1/2 tsp amchoor (dry mango powder)

1 tsp dry kasoori methi

1 tbsp fresh cream

salt to taste

boiled chick peas 1 cup
Method:

1. Soak 1/2 cup chick peas overnight and boil them with some salt and water in a pressure cooker till they become tender. Keep aside.
2. Clean ,wash and chop spinach.
3. Take spinach,onion,tomato,green chili,ginger and garlic a pan and cook for 5 minutes till all the ingredients are cooked.
4. Now puree the spinach along with other ingredients with the help of a blender.
5. Dissolve gram flour in 2-3 tbsp of water and pour it in spinach puree and cook for five minutes stirring occasionally
6. In another pan heat one tbsp of butter and add cumin seeds and when it turns brown in color add tomato puree and all the spices and salt one by one. Add 1/4 cup of water.
7. Cook for 2 minutes and mix the tempering with the cooked spinach and mix well.
8. Mix boiled chick peas and mix well and cook further for 5 minutes.
9. Serve Paalak chana hot with rotis or naan. 
10. Garnish the Paalak chana with some cream or  grated paneer .