In praise of spinach!

[Poot]

I tried saag paneer for the first time last night and I may have fallen a little bit in love.

Yum.

 

[Detroit City]

i thought saag was mustard leaves? according to the sign in the pakistani supermarket by me anyway... although i have always seen spinach called saag on bangladeshi & indian restaurant menus

its all the same to them, they don't differentiate...true "saag" is a mix of spinach and mustard greens

 

[Herbsman.]

its all the same to them, they don't differentiate...true "saag" is a mix of spinach and mustard greens

I just seen that on wikipedia

I have loads more amalgum fillings than that

It's the metallic taste that I notice. It's meant to be really high in iron but you've got to have vitamin C with it to release it or something like that. Spinach cooked in orange juice

Or... more palatable - spinach cooked in tomatoes. like in a curry.

im gonna make an aubergine, spinach, chickpea and garden pea curry, leave it in the fridge overnight then re-fry it in spices, its 10x nicer than a straight up just-cooked curry.

 

[cesare]

Or... more palatable - spinach cooked in tomatoes. like in a curry.

im gonna make an aubergine, spinach, chickpea and garden pea curry, leave it in the fridge overnight then re-fry it in spices, its 10x nicer than a straight up just-cooked curry.

That sounds That's a better way of getting the Vitamin C in to kind of activate it ... got me thinking about that now. Straight forward/basic saag aloo tastes great to me, I just don't get that metallic twinging in my mouth. But potatoes don't disguise the spinach flavour. Maybe they add the Vit C that activates the iron absorbability and therefore it then tastes right? </out on an un-scientific limb>