Sarson Ka Saag – The Authentic Recipe From The Kitchen Of Amritsar

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Sarson Ka Saag

As the winter arrives the very first thing that comes in every North Indian’s mind is the scrumptious Sarson Ka Saag with makki ki roti. Yes, this sarson ka saag is the most loved and the cooked dish for the winter season in the north of India.

Sarson Ka Saag

 

It needs to be cooked with a lot of patience and love, as it is a bit time consuming task. People often make it in large quantity and refrigerate it. The small portion is then tempered as required.

Sarson Ka Saag

There have been many variations made to the recipe of saag. But my today’s recipe is a perfect authentic sarson ka saag recipe straight from the kitchen of Amritsar. It is my mother in law’s recipe and so it is the traditional one going on from ages.

I have explained everything in right from the cleaning to chopping to cooking and then tempering the whole thing is included in my recipe.

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Ingredients:

1 kg Mustard leaves (Sarson)

½ kg Spinach leaves (palak)

¼ kg Bathua (chenopodium)

1 Onion (finely chopped)

2 tbsp Garlic (finely chopped)

1 tbsp Ginger (finely chopped)

2 Green Chillies (chopped)

¼ cup Maize flour

Salt

¼ cup Ghee

Home made butter

Water

Method:

Take mustard leaves, spinach leaves and bathua leaves.

We will begin with sarson. Take the bunch of sarson and then we need to take only the leaves and tender stem of it. If the stem is hard then peel the outer layer and take the inner tender and soft part of the stem.

mustard leaves

take the tender part

 

For both palak and bathua take the leaves and only tender stems.

palak leaves

 

bathua leaves

Now clean these leaves and stems in running water for 3 to 4 times. All the dirt should be removed.

On a chooping board cut all these leaves and stems. Do not cut them big else it would be difficult to mash them later. In Punjab the saag cutting machines are available, as they make saag in large quantities, the machine is more convenient for them.

chop the leaves and stems

After cutting, put all these chopped leaves in the pressure cooker and turn on the heat.

put in pressure cooker

 

Add in 1 glass water, 2 green chillies and salt. Add little salt as the leaves would be reduced on cooking, so the salt could be adjusted later on.

Pressure cook for 30 minutes. For 5 whistles on high and then lower the heat.

pressure cook for 30 min

Open the cooker when it depressurizes. The water should be dried till now. If it is not dried remove the water in a bowl which we would add later on. The water is removed so that when we add the maize flour in the next step, the flour won’t form lumps.

water dries

Now put in  the maize flour. Take a hand blender and mix and mash the maize flour with the saag. It would take around 6 to 8 minutes.

add maize flour

mix and mash

Again cook it for 15 minutes. The raw taste of the maize flour should not be left. After 15 minutes, taste it and if the raw taste still persists cook for some more time. Do not close the cooker just cover it half and cook.

add 1 glass water

cover and cook

cooked

Now in a pan take ¼ cup ghee and add in the onions, garlic and ginger. Saute till golden brown.

ghee, onion, garlic, ginger

saute till golden brown

Then put in a cup of prepared saag and mix well and simmer for a minute.

add saag

mix 

Rest can be tempered as and when to be used. It stays good for a week if refrigerated.

Serve it hot with makke ki roti and raddish.

Sarson Ka Saag

Tips:

Clean all the greens thoroughly.

Chop them small, so that it would be easier to mash.

Cover and cook while cooking the maize flour.

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