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