Name: Spinach Soup Recipe / Palak Soup Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1 Bunch Of Spinach (medium size); 5 Nos Og Garlic Cloves; 5 Nos Of shallots; 1 No Of Cherry Tomato; 1 No Of Green Chili; Required Amount Of Salt and Water; 1 No Of Bay Leaf; 1 No Of Clove; ½ Inch Of Cinnamon Stick; 1 No Of Star Anise; 1 tbsp Butter; 1 tsp Cumin Seeds; Required Amount Of Salt and Black Pepper

Required Vegetables

1 Bunch Of Spinach (medium size)

5 Nos Og Garlic Cloves

5 Nos Of shallots

1 No Of Cherry Tomato

1 No Of Green Chili

Required Amount Of Salt and Water

For Tempering

1 No Of Bay Leaf

1 No Of Clove

½ Inch Of Cinnamon Stick

1 No Of Star Anise

1 tbsp Butter

1 tsp Cumin Seeds

For Seasoning

Required Amount Of Salt and Black Pepper

Boil The Spinach

Rinse the spinach and drop it in a small pan and tip in a pinch of sugar and salt each. Add the measured quantities of garlic, shallots, onion, cherry tomato and green chili to it. Just pour in a little water( half a cup approximately) and let it boil for a while in medium flame. Approximately after five to ten minutes when the aroma of spinach starts wafting out from the vessel just turn off the flame and allow it to cool down. Then plop the boiled veggies in a blender along with the water and blitz for one or two pulses and keep it aside.

Do The Tempering

Meanwhile, heat the pan again and tip in half a tablespoon of butter and when it melts down, add a bay leaf, clove, a piece of cinnamon and an anise to it. Now squirt in the blended spinach into the pan and stir in for a while. Sprinkle the required salt and let it boil in high flame for a minute or two and when it turns aromatic just lower the flame. Now using a slotted spoon take out all the tempered ingredients as the essence of all the aromatic agents would have got seeped in.

Finally, heat a small pan again and add half a tablespoon of butter again and follow it up with a teaspoon of cumin seeds. When it starts to splutter turn off the stove and add this to the spinach soup which is almost ready now. Take a bowl of sizzling hot spinach soup and tip in a pinch of salt and pepper and relish it on a rainy evening with your favorite music on.