Ingredients:

• 500 g – Palak (spinach)
• 100 g – maag daal (split green gram)
• 30 g – groundnut oil
• 15 g – Green chillies
• 100 g – tomatoes, finely chopped
• 5 g – ginger, crushed
• 5 g – Asafoetida
• salt to taste

Method:

1. Wash and chop spinach into shreds.
2. Wash and soak green gram for 1 hour.
3. Heat oil in a pan.
4. Add asafoetida, green chillies, ginger and tomatoes.
5. Add green gram with enough water. Cook till soft.
6. Add spinach and salt. Best served with plain rice.

Recipe courtesy of Anita Raheja