aloo saag recipe | instant pot aloo saag recipe
easy saag aloo recipe comes to your rescue when you want to increase iron in your body. Learn to make this in a pressure cooker or an instant pot for easy meals.
Equipment
- instant pot / traditional pressure cooker
- Blender
Ingredients
- 2-3 tbsp. oil olive oil / mustard oil / vegetable oil
- 1 medium onion
- 2 large tomatoes
- ½ tablespoon ginger paste or grated ginger
- ½ tbsp. curry powder add more if you like it more spicy
- 1 teaspoon paprika or red chilli powder as per taste
- salt as per taste
- 2 potatoes around 300gms in total
- 200 gm spinach pureed with ½ cup water
- 100 gm amaranth or fenugreek leaves optional
- 1.5 cup water
Instructions
In an instant pot
- Heat oil in an instant pot and add chopped onions and salt to it. Once brown, add chopped tomatoes or tomato puree to it along with the spices and ginger.
- Meanwhile, blend spinach with other greens amaranth and ½ cup water to make a puree. Add this to the instant pot and cook for few minutes until rawness disappears.
- Add potatoes to it and mix well.
- Now add 1.5 cups water and salt(if required)
- cook for 10 mins on high pressure with seal ON , release after 10 mins.
In a traditional pressure cooker:
- Follow the same instructions as above, in a traditional pressure cooker. Cook for upto 2 whistles.
- Serve hot with vegan naan, roti or basmati rice if gluten-free.