Chana Palak Recipe with step by step pictures. Palak chana, chickpeas with spinach recipe which taste delicious with roti and pulao.
It's middle of the week and only two more days for weekend. I am feeling the tiredness already. I really want to take rest now but still have to wait for two more days. This weekend is going to be a long one for me. So what do you need in the middle of a tiring weekend. Something so quick and full of healthy vitamins and minerals which keep you going for the next two days. So here I deliver Spinach which is combined with chickpeas. You know it is a fully nutritional meal. I made it entirely indian style. I am really too lazy to describe this dish so straightaway to the recipe.
Ingredients for Chana Palak
- Spinach-3 cups chopped
- Chickpeas / Kondakadalai-1 cup cooked or 1 can drained
- Onion-1 sliced
- Tomato-2 chopped
- Chilli powder-1 tsp
- Coriander powder / Malli podi-1 tblspn
- Turmeric powder / Manjal podi-1 tsp
- Garam masala powder-1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Salt to taste
How to Make Chana Palak
- Heat oil in a kadai and crackle some cumin seeds.
- Add in onions and cook for 3 mins. Add in all the spice powders and mix well.
- Throw in chopped tomatoes and mix well.
- Season with some salt and mix well.
- Add in spinach and mix well. in chickpeas also..
- Mix well. Pour in some water and cover and simmer for 5 -10 mins.
- Serve it with roti or rice.
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Chana Palak Recipe | Palak Chana Curry Recipe | Chickpeas with Spinach
Ingredients
- Spinach-3 cups chopped
- Chickpeas / Kondakadalai-1 cup cooked or 1 can drained
- Onion-1 sliced
- Tomato-2 chopped
- Chilli powder-1 tsp
- Coriander powder / Malli podi-1 tblspn
- Turmeric powder / Manjal podi-1 tsp
- Garam masala powder-1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a kadai and crackle some cumin seeds.
- Add in onions and cook for 3 mins. Add in all the spice powders and mix well.
- Throw in chopped tomatoes and mix well.
- Season with some salt and mix well.
- Add in spinach and mix well.Throw in chickpeas also..
- Mix well.Pour in some water and cover and simmer for 5 -10 mins.
- Serve it with roti or rice.
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Chana Palak Step by step pictures
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| These are your stuffs |
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| Spice powders in closeup |
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| Chop up your spinach and rinse well... |
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| Crackle cumin seeds |
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| onions |
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| Add in all your spice powders |
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| Add in tomatoes |
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| Sprinkle some salt.. |
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| add your chopped spinach |
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| and your chickpeas |
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| mix well |
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| Pour in water |
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| bring that to boil and simmer for a while |
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| Done |
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| I served it with Naan.(Recipe soon) |
Version 2: Spinach with Chickpeas
This is a simple curry which taste really delicious. It is simple to make and goes great with roti, chapati, phulka, ghee rice or pulao. The combination of spinach and chana is really good. You can make it dry by adding less water, but i made it gravy like so it can be had with rice or chapati.
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 45 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- Oil - 3 tblspn
- Cumin Seeds / Jeeragam - 1 tsp
- Onion - 1 large chopped finely
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblsp
- Tomatoes - 2 large chopped finely
- Spinach - 5 to 6 cups chopped finely
- Chana / Chickpeas - 4 cups cooked
- Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Coriander Powder - 1.5 tblspn
- Chilli Powder - 2 tsp or to taste
- Garam Masala Powder - 2 tsp
How to Make Chana Palak
- Soak channa overnight. Add the soaked channa to pressure cooker, cover with water and pressure cook it for 5 whistle. After that simmer the pan and cook for 20 to 25 mins. Switch off the heat and let the steam go all by itself.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Add in cumin and let them sizzle.
- Add in onions, and cook till golden. In goes ginger garlic paste and saute them for a min.
- In goes tomatoes and cook that till mushy. Season in salt and turmeric powder and mix well.
- Add in chilli and coriander powder and mix well
- Now add in spinach and cook that for 5 mins or so till it wilts down.
- Add in cooked chana and mix well. Pour water as needed. Now cover and simmer this for 5 to 10 mins.
- Now add in garam masala powder and mix well.
- Serve.
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| take all your ingredients |
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| Chop spinach into small pieces, cook chana till it is completely cooked |
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| heat oil in a kadai, add cumin and let them sizzle |
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| add onions |
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| cook till golden |
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| add in ginger garlic paste |
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| mix well |
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| add in tomatoes |
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| add in salt and turmeric powder |
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| mix well and cook till oil separates |
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| add in chilli and coriander powder |
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| mix well |
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| add in spinach |
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| Mix well and cook that down for 5 to 6 mins |
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| add cooked chana |
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| add water |
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| Mix well |
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| cover and simmer |
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| now the curry is almost done |
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| add in garam masala powder |
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| mix well |
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| Serve |
jeyashrisuresh
quite a heathy one with chikpeas.nice combo
Carolina
I love chickpeas and i like so much the way you prepared them.
Kisses
Hari Chandana
Wow.. truly delicious.. yummy 🙂
Food, Fun and Life in the Charente
Have saved this, we both love spinach and chickpeas so this sounds really good. Diane
Rumana Rawat
It taste yumm, even i have a post of the same recipe...
Stefania
This is a very fragrant dish, I am going to reward him with a Google's vote +1. bye
Andréa
A nice recipe, chickpeas with spinach is all good!
Your blog is wonderful!
Kisses ..
grEAT
wonderful!!!!
i love chikpeas!
Sobha Shyam
nice combo, a very healthy dish..
Dzoli
Love thsi combiantion.See already myself dipping ssome yummiroti in the sauce;)
Inside a British Mum's Kitchen
THis is PERFECT food! I'm making this today - thanks for a great recipe!
Mary
Joanne
This is so crazy healthy delicious!
hindu
wonderful...mouth watering