This palak sabzi with potatoes is a healthy, comforting dry vegetable preparation that goes well with roti or as a side dish for your dal-chawal. This aloo palak sabzi is made with a basic, handful of ingredients yet tastes fantastic.

Palak sabzi in a white bowl with brown napkin on the side.

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Healthy: Because it is a healthy, hearty and super satisfying dry veggie preparation, you can add this to your weekly menu. Plus, this is a great way to add some more iron to your diet.

Comforting: Whenever we Indians add potato to any dish, it becomes comforting. Potato is so versatile that it can be paired with any vegetable like aloo beans, aloo bhindi, aloo capsicum, aloo methi, and the list will go on.

Lunch-box friendly: This can be packed into kids’ or adults’ lunch boxes. Don’t forget to pack fresh rotis in a separate container to go with this sabzi.

This is naturally vegan and gluten-free.

Serve it differently: Instead of serving this palak sabzi with rotis, you can add this to your paratha with some kachumber salad and roll it to make a desi wrap. Or make a toast sandwich by swapping the potato masala with this palak sabzi.

🧾Ingredient Notes

Spinach: If using regular spinach or desi palak then remove and discard the stems. The stems may make the sabzi a little off tasting. If using baby spinach then no worries, just chop them and use.
Potatoes: I prefer to use Yukon gold or red skin potatoes for sabzi or curry.
Onion: Red onion is traditionally used in Indian cooking to get good flavors. You can use yellow or white onion if that’s what you have on hand.
Tomato: I am adding a tiny amount of chopped tomatoes (just like my mom does, this is her recipe). But some people do not combine spinach and tomatoes. If so you can skip adding tomatoes.
Ginger, Garlic, Green chili: Here I have used freshly grated ginger, garlic and finely chopped green chilies. Alternately, you can use ginger garlic paste and chopped chili or crush all three together in a mortar and pestle or small grinder.
Spice powders: Very basic Indian spice powders (turmeric, red chili and coriander powder) are used. You don’t need other spices like garam masala that mask the real flavor of the veggies.

👩‍🍳How To Make Palak Sabzi? (Stepwise Photos)

1) Heat the oil in a pan or kadai on medium heat. Once hot add cumin seeds and let them sizzle a bit and they get a little darker in color.

2) Add chopped onion and sprinkle a little salt to speed up the cooking process.

3) Cook until onion starts to soften and becomes light pink in color.

4) Then add ginger, garlic and green chili. Saute for a minute or until the raw smell of ginger garlic goes away.

Collage of 4 images showing cooking onion, ginger, garlic and chili.

5) Add cubed potatoes, remaining salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder and coriander powder.

6) Mix well so spices are coated evenly on the potatoes.

7) Cover the pan and cook until potatoes are 80% cooked. You may need to check and stir once or twice in between to make sure that potatoes are not sticking to the bottom of the pan.

8) Add chopped spinach and tomato.

9) Mix, cover and cook until potatoes are 100% cooked (fork-tender). Meantime, spinach will also get cooked and tomatoes becomes soft (but not mushy).

10) Turn off the stove and keep the palak sabzi covered for 5 minutes before serving to let the flavors mingle.

Collage of 6 images showing cooking potatoes with spices, adding and cooking spinach.

💭Expert Tips

You can use boiled, cubed potatoes. If so, cook the onions until soft and light brown in color. Then add boiled potatoes and spices. Cook for 2 minutes and then continue with the next steps of adding and cooking spinach, tomato.
Instead of adding tomatoes, you can drizzle a few drops of lemon or lime juice once sabzi is cooked.
I have added a moderate to low amount of spinach here. You can add more if you like but don’t add too much otherwise it may taste bitter or metallic.

Top view of palak sabzi served in a bowl with brown napkin on the side.

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