Probably the most well known dish of sindhis......extremely tasty and healthy too
Ingredients
- 1 bunch of fresh Palak
- 3 to 4 strands of Sua/Dill leaves
- 2 medium size Tomatoes
- 1 medium size Onion
- 1 medium size Potato
- 1/2 cup of Gram Dal soaked(2 hrs prior) - we can use other types of lentils too
- 2-3 green chilies
- 1 inch ginger
Dry masalas
- 1 tea spoon Turmeric powder
- 1 table spoon Coriander powder
- Salt to taste
For Tampering
- 1 teaspoon Jeera
- 3 -4 pods of chopped Garlic
- 1-2 table spoon of Oil
Method:
Style 1:
- Add all ingredients from in a pressure cooker except tampering one with 1-2 cup of water and pressure cook for 3 whistles .
- Mash this ingredients with a hand masher till completely smashed but do not turn it to a paste, keep it to simmer for ten minutes.
- Take 2 table spoons of oil and when hot add jeera and garlic and add this to the sai bhaji. Its real nice and different and good veggie for weight watchers.
Style 2:
- Heat oil in Pressure cooker. when oil is heated add Jeera and chopped garlic.
- When Garlic is little brown add Onion and saute for few minutes until pink.
- Add 1/2 Spinach, spread daal/lentil over it and finally cover with rest of Spinach.
- Add Sual/Dill, green Chilli and Garlic.
- Add tomatoe, Turmeric, Salt and 1/2 cup water.
- Close Pressure cooker and let it cook until 3 whistles or until daal is cooked.
- Grind everything together coarsely and boil for few more minutes.
You can eat this with plain rice or with veg biryani or pulao or the traditional sindhi rice Bhugal Chanvaar or Brown rice.
