A simple garlic spinach curry, uniquely flavored with milk. I’ll place this right up with my most-loved comfort foods.
To be frank, when I really feel like having comfort home food, I have few recipes that I would like to make – vengaya kuzhambu, rasam, mor kuzhambu, potato roast and there comes this recipe “spinach garlic curry”. I just love this recipe. This makes me feel good after having it 🙂 I am not exaggerating. I feel so! I always make this spinach curry with potato roast and basmati rice. I really like the flavors of spinach curry and basmati rice and with sides I need my potato roast. You should try this combo! It is just awesome! You can even have this as sides to roti or just plain rice. It can be made as vegan by adding coconut milk or soy milk. I came to know about this recipe from my friend Priyanka. She used to make it for us 🙂 I just adapted this recipe from that. Before having this, I was wondering spinach and milk combination, it did not feel good 🙂 Now I am in love with this! Thank you Priyanka :)!!!!
Vegan Note – . You can use coconut milk/ soy milk instead of milk to make it completely vegan.
- • Cumin seeds (jeera) – 2 tsp
- • Garlic – 8, chopped finely
- • Onion – 1, chopped finely
- • Green chilli – 1, chopped finely
- • Tomato – ½, chopped finely
- • Turmeric powder - ½ tsp
- • Spinach – 3 cups, chopped or whole
- • Chilli powder – 1 tbsp
- • Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
- • Cumin powder – 1 tbsp
- • Milk – ½ cup
- • Oil – 2 tbsp
- • Salt – as needed
- • Coriander leaves – For garnish
- Heat oil in a large heavy bottomed non-stick skillet over medium heat, add jeera, garlic and add the onions and chillies and fry until they are golden brown.
- Now add the tomatoes, salt and turmeric and fry until golden brown.
- Now stir in the chopped spinach to this and add 2 tbsp of water and close the lid. Simmer it for few minutes till the spinach leaves shrink.
- Now add the chilli powder, coriander powder and cumin powder. Fry this for a minute.
- Now add milk and Stir in the mixture few times and the milk should evaporate 90%.
- Now switch off and Garnish with coriander leaves.
Looks delicious! Method references turmeric but no amount is specified in ingredient list. I’ll improvise.
thank you John! I have added it now. Thank you for mentioning it!!!!
Hey suganya, I made this curry a couple of days back, just yum! Thank you for the recipe.. ☺
Thank you Maha 🙂 🙂 Thanks for letting me know! Sweet of you!
I just made this for dinner – soooo tasty! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you kaila 🙂 Thanks for letting me know! :)!
Tried this for lunch today.. Came out well. Very simple and quick recipe. Thanks!
Thank you Priya 🙂 Thank you for letting me know 🙂
Hi Suki
I just made this. Was amazing. Thanks for great recipe !
Thank you 🙂 for trying
Hi,
I was looking for a recipe for spinach other than the regular strip fry or palak paneer and stumbled upon this recipe on your website. My family loved it! I admit I was a little skeptical about the combination of spinach and coconut milk. But it was so yummy! Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Hi
when you say Garlic,does it mean 8 whole garlic or 8 pieces?
8 whole garlic. 🙂 Sorry for late reply!
Are you sure you mean heads? I was skeptical about 8 pieces (cloves), but 8 heads… I will give it a go with 8 cloves and report back. Thank you again for posting your recipe.
Hey,
Can I use almond milk as well ?
YES YOU CAN :). sorry for late reply
I made this last night with Coconut Milk and OMG sooooo delicious! I loved it my husband loved and i hope my toddlers love the left overs. ( i doubled the recipe as i had a ton of spinach to cook up before it went off. Thank you for this recipe.
Thank you so much for letting me know 🙂 Glad you liked it
Hi. I didn’t try this recipe but writing this because cooking spinach and tomato together is not a good idea as this can lead to stones in kidney.
Hello Ann, thanks for letting m,e know. But this is not absolutely true as per doctors as its a total myth i believe. http://living-smartly.com/2013/08/spinach-tomatoes-kidney-stones/amp/
Thank you but!!!! 🙂
I’m eating right now and it is so delicious.
l was wondering: two tablespoons of cumin seeds?
You don’t grind them. But now that I’m eating it, it seems OK.
I was also looking for something different to make with a pound of spinach.
Thanks for sharing the recipe, I will make it again!
Thank you so much 🙂 Emily. Cumin seeds are good fro health and in curries u won’t taste much and it is 2 teaspoon.
It looks delicious. I have tried with ground coconut but no with milk or coconut milk. I’m going to try it. But can I make it the previous night and refrigerate for next day? Will it be still good for lunch box. PS it is not hot day though.
SOrry for late reply. Yes you can for 24-32 hours if stored in refrigerator but surely not more than that.
Making it again today… very delicious preparation of something as boring as palak 😊
Thank you so much 🙂
Can’t view any of the recipes for some reason lately… An ad covers up where it should be and there is no way to close it… even when I try to print, the ingredients and instructions are gone.. 🙁
Sorry about that Yani. I fixed it. 🙂 Thank you so much for letting me know
Made this with Swiss chard. Amazing!! I chopped the stalks up and put them in a few minutes ahead of the leaves, bulks it up a tiny bit. Definitely doing that one again. Yum!!
P.s. Despite reducing the amounts of garlic, cumin and chili (by about 1/4) it was still amazing.
🙂 glad you liked it 🙂 yeah swiss chard!! That is the way to go!!!
Hi,
Thank you for the recipe. I cooked it last night for dinner. It turned out very tasty! You have earned a regular visitor to your website now! 🙂
Thank you 🙂 Made my day 🙂 Mayur
How many people does this recipe serve?
It serves 2 cups. probably 2 it depends..! 🙂
I’m cooking for 8 but wander if multiplying the ingredients by 4 is wrong. For instance, 32 garlic cloves :/
yeah i am sure this will serve 3 already so just multiply by 3. 🙂
Hi there
I’m cooking for 20 people and I’d love to cook this dish along with a few others, like a dhal, some cumin potatos etc. So it wouldn’t need to serve 20 main sized portions, but more like 20 sides. How many times do you think I should multiply your recipe by for this? I’m also not familiar with the cup measurements. Hoping you could you help me? Is a cup of spinach like a large handful? & 8 garlics – I assume you mean 8 garlic cloves?
Sorry for all the questions – hoping I get to make this dish as it looks yum and the reviews are so great!
Thanks so much
Fiona
Hello Fiona, wow. cumin potatoes and dhal! :)For this spinach, i would say for sides, 6-7 times the current portion. Yes, i think one large handful will be one cup. yes 🙂 8 garlic cloves i meant 🙂
hope I answered everything 🙂 let me know if you have more questions! hopefully this turns super good 😉
Thank you so much. The curry was a great success and so easy to make…Although I made it a little too spicy!
🙂 Thank you Fiona 🙂 Glad you liked it! 🙂
Just tried it today and our family loved it.
🙂 🙂 Thank you Pratheeba 🙂 Glad your family loved it!
Hi,
You mean 8 whole garlic bulbs? Would it make the dish too garlicky?
I meant 8 cloves 🙂 Did you get a chance to try? Apologies on the late reply.
Am going to try this or by the time I get a reply, I would have made it already 🙂 I was wondering if you can suggest me a side for this curry with rice.
🙁 probably i am too late!!! ??? chris?
I didn’t use the tablespoons of spices but heaped teaspoonfuls which seemed to work. Puzzled by the cumin seeds listed in the ingredients as the recipe doesn’t mention them! I added them at the end and it all seemed to work. Next time I would use less milk as it was a bit sloppier than we are used to.
Hi, thanks for the recipe…but I have a doubt: After adding salt and other powders, when we add milk will it not spoil the dish???
This was very nice and low calorie too, thank you
Made this tonight, so so yummy thank you!
Wow Mouthwatering dish!!
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