Palak Chole Masala

Palak Chole Masala is a tasty and spicy side dish for chapati/roti. I personally like Palak Chole masala more than plain chole masala because of the nice flavour of palak cooked with onions, tomatoes and chole. Try this yummy dish and let me know your comments!!!

Palak Chole Masala

Preparation Time	5 mins
Cooking Time	20 mins
Servings	3

Ingredients:

Onion	2 big size
Tomato	3
Cooked Chole	1 Cup
Spinach (Any Greens)	1 bunch
Green Chillies	2
Salt	To Taste
Ginger-garlic paste	2 teaspoon
Oil	2 tablespoon

Ingredients For Seasoning:

Bay leaf	1
Cinnamon sticks	2
Fennel Seeds	1/4 teaspoon
Cloves	2
Cumin Seeds	1 teaspoon

Method:

Finely chop the onions, tomatoes and green chillies and keep it aside. Wash the spinach nicely and chop it and keep it aside
Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and fennel seeds. When the cumin seeds starts to sputter, add bay leaf, cinnamon sticks, cloves and fry for a minute
Add finely chopped onions and saute them in oil. Add a pinch of salt and mix well. Adding salt to onions brings out the moisture from them and allow them to cook evenly and quickly

Add Ginger-garlic paste to the onions and saute them for 30 seconds

When the onions turn transparent, add chopped tomatoes, chopped green chillies and salt and mix well

Add 1/2 cup of water to the tomato mixture and keep the flame in medium low for the tomatoes to cook completely and becomes like a puree

Now add the chopped spinach and mix well. Allow the spinach to cook in the masala for 5 minutes in medium flame

Then add cooked chick peas / Chole to the palak masala and mix well. Adjust the salt if needed. Allow the masala to cook in low flame

Now take 3 tablespoon of the cooked palak and chole along with masala and allow it to cool off. Grind this to a nice paste. This step is not mandatory. But I prefer to do this as the ground palak with chole makes the gravy thicker. You can also skip this step.
Add the ground paste to the masala and mix well