Muli Tomato Palak

I'd impulsively bought a lot of palak (spinach) and mooli (radish) when I'd gone veggie shopping. I woke up and wondered what to  do with the combo. So...

I took some tej patta (bay leaves), whole dried red chillies, a pinch of haldi and a fair bit of ajwain (which has the  fancy carom seeds or mistaken as bishop's weed across the ocean in the West).

I sliced a few tomatoes, grated a large mooli....

... and chopped a large bunch of palak as well...

... and realized that I was looking at a veritable flag of Italy ... :)

I dunked all the masala and oil into my trusty non-stick pan and waited for things to sputter. I decided to do this instead of adding the masala to hot oil, since I wanted the oil to get more of the aroma as it heated with the masala for longer than it would otherwise.

I put in all the veggies together and simmered in a covered pan, stirring once in between.

Then I got ready to pack and leave for office while the last bit of cooking happened... Quick and easy morning cooking :)

Lauki ka sabzi... (attempt 02)

Another Tuesday morning comes rolling in with DoraDora (the cat) ambling in to edge TingTingay (the white kitten) out from her milk.


The fridge defrosted and left a pool of water and paw prints in the kitchen as I added to the Tuesday morning squelch...


The vegetables in the crisper didn't really jump out at me and scream "cook-me-now" after the defrost. I removed a sheaf of palak to see half a lauki (bottle gourd) peeking at me. This would be a nice languid morning I decided and reached for the lauki.

The dhania patta (coriander leaves/cilantro) wallah had given me some nice curry patta (curry leaves) gratis in his hurry to shut shop and go home. I got a sprig out along with a few cloves of garlic and quickly crushed them and tossed everything in the pan with a dash of haldi (turmeric) and some tej patta (bay leaves) and then morning washed by me a little too quickly...

Another day at office beckoned...