Creamy Palak(Spinach) Soup

Do remember the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man. He was portrayed as having a strong affinity for spinach, becoming physically stronger after palak (spinach). The commonly accepted story of events states this portrayal is based on faulty calculations of the iron content in palak.

                                                 Few days back; I read in book that palak (Spinach) acts as antioxidant and protects our body from radical formation and act as anti cancer substances too ; from this I got an ideal of posting some recipe made of palak. But the versatile palak is used in variety of preparation such as palak rice, palak puri, dal palak, palak pakoda, and one of the most famous cuisine palak paneer in spite of all this varieties I preferred palak soup as today’s recipe

      

Ingredients

1 bunch   Palak (spinach)

1                       Onion

5-6     Garlic flakes
1 cup    Vegetables (beans, carrot and peas)

 2tbsp       Cooked rice

 1tbsp       Butter

 1 tsp        Pepper powder

 ½             Lemon juice

 1 tbsp      Cream

1tsp          Sugar 

     Salt to taste

Procedure

Clean Palak.  Cook palak, onion sliced, garlic and salt in cooker (one whistle)

Ones it get cool, Blend it to smooth palak puree by adding cooked rice.

Heat Butter in a wok chopped vegetables and cook on medium heat add pepper powder   and stir well.

Add palak puree and mix well

Add water to consistency you like and bring it to boil

Ones it starts boiling add  sugar and cream stir well

 Reduce the heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes 

 Remove from flame, stir in lemon juice and serve piping hot, garnished with cream.

Serve hot.