Vegan Indian Creamed Spinach

4
15 min
25 min

Ingredients

  • ½ bag of Emborg Frozen Chopped Spinach
  • 1 can of full-fat coconut milk
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 yellow onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 60ml water
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp grated ginger
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp turmeric
  • ¼ tsp cayenne

Method

This Indian creamed spinach dish is based on another traditional Indian dish known as Saag. Full of flavour, you are sure to wow your guests with this very quick and easy dish. This Indian Creamed Spinach is a versatile dish which can act as a side dish or as a delicious dip, best served with some naan bread.

What gives this Indian creamed spinach recipe it’s great flavour is the delicious blend of spices; onion, garlic, ginger, cumin, garam masala, turmeric and cayenne pepper. This dish gets its spiciness from the cayenne pepper and we suggest that you are very cautious with the quantity you add to this dish and try not to use more than ¼ of a teaspoon.

  1. Leave the spinach to thaw as you prepare all of the ingredients
  2. In a pot, stir in 1 can of full-fat coconut milk with the spinach. Half a bag of Emborg Frozen Chopped Spinach should be enough for this recipe. Cook until the milk and spinach mixture is warm and the spinach has cooked through.
  3. Once the mixture has cooled down, blend until the spinach has been cut down and mixes well with the coconut milk.
  4. Chop the onion and garlic. Sauté the onion, garlic and ginger in two tablespoons of olive oil for about five minutes.
  5. Add in the spices (cumin, garam masala, turmeric, and cayenne) for about two minutes, stirring throughout.
  6. Add in a diced tomato and 60ml of water. Cook for about 8 minutes until the tomato has dissolved into the spices.
  7. Stir in the coconut milk and spinach mixture to the rest until the mixture is heated and combined well.
  8. Add salt according to taste. We found that ¾ teaspoons worked best according to our liking.

Original recipe by OMGFoodMalta.

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