I’ve been looking at various recipes for sag aloo for a while now. None of them seemed to give me the result I was after. Every now and then, Spices of India send me an email wanting me to buy their pretty expensive spices. This time round, they also sent a recipe for sag aloo. As it was from them, I thought it might hit the spot and decided to give it a go.
Sag Aloo
Priced at Asda using mySupermarket
400g frozen spinach, 1.3kg/£1.50, 46p
2 onions, peeled and sliced, 2kg/£1.18, 18p
A tin of potatoes, 15p
1 clove garlic, crushed, 5p
A chilli, fine chopped, 5p
1 tsp mustard seed, £1/48g X 2p
1 tsp turmeric 45g/70p, 3p
1 tsp ground cumin, 70p/41g, 3p
1 tsp garam masala, £1.25/92g, 3p
4 tblsp oil, 6p
Plenty of freshly ground black pepper
Salt
Total cost £1.06
Total nutrition, 928 calories, 68g carbs, 60g fat, 21g protein, 18g fibre
Serves 4, as a side dish at 26p and 232 calories, 17g carb, 5g protein, 4g fibre
Have half, on its own, for 53p, as a filling and tasty meal. Or split into 4 portions, and serve with a quarter of the Paneer curry, recipe coming in a day or two.
Asda is not showing the 100g packs of spices, if you can get these, the spices are much much better value
Bronnie – so glad you like it 🙂
This was delicious! I didn’t have mustard seeds, so I used mustard powder. Very tasty
I’m so glad you liked it, and mixing cuisines is totally allowed
I realise that this is an older post, but I’ve just made this an it was absolutely delicious, even with the substitutions I made. I had it with dosas, which I know is mixing regional cuisines, but the ethnic food police haven’t knocked at my door, yet!
This recipe is very definitely a keeper.
I just used tinned because I wanted to see what they were like
The recipe sounds yummy. I like to use fresh potatoes. They are on sale in Toronto now.
Looking for a way to freeze the potatoes.