Spinach(Palak) soup
I love most of the soups. When I saw an article about soups in my recipe collection from old Kannada weekly, I was very much interested in it. I tried most of them and almost all turned out great. But I was a bit hesitant to try the spinach soup. I am not very comfortable with the strong spinach smell, but still I tried it with few changes and it turned out really good. It is a perfect dish for cold weather.
Ingredients:
1 and 1/2 cups palak(spinach)
1/2 cup onion(cut into small pieces)
1 tea spn corn flour or maida
2 tea spns butter
Pepper powder
1/2 cup milk(optional)
Salt
Method:
Heat 1 tea spn butter. When it melts, add spinach and fry for 1-2mins. Add 1 cup water and cook till spinach leaves become tender. Grind them into a smooth puree using mixer/blender.
Heat remaining butter and fry onions till they turn translucent. Now add spinach puree. Mix corn flour in milk or water and add this to the spinach mixture stirring continuously. Add salt and pepper. When it thickens to desired consistency, take off from heat.
Serve hot.
Serves : 2
Preparation time : 15mins
I too make this soup with a slight variation.I roast a pod of garlic and 1 tsp jeera along with the spinach and blend it.It gives a very nice aroma and adds a lot of flavor.
Hi Shilpa,
Spinich soup sounds delicious ……never made it. I make similar soup with tomatos. Picture with the hot vapours looks very tempting…..
Thanks for the recipe of ‘Goli bajji’ its very famous in restaurants in mysore it also called mangalore bajji.
Spinach soup sounds perfect Shilpa, thank you!
does it taste bitter or more like metallic?
Yep soups are very comforting and see the color, it gives us our quota of anti-oxidants. I made palak soup on the last weekend but I used different ingredients. Will share my version soon. I have taken pictures too.
What a coincidence Shilpa….I have just posted Palak pulao in my blog n came here, n seen ur palak soup. Will try ur palak soup. Thx for the healthy recipe.
Good day!
Hi Shilpa ,
Can I give this to a toddler?
nice soup,perfect for this type of weather here.
Soumyata, I will try your version next time. Thanks.
Madhu, good to see you back. I am heading to your blog now
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Thanks Linda.
Shaheen, Metallic?? if you can’t stand the smell of cooked spinach(like me), you might not like this. But still give it a try.
Anjali, I am waiting for your version.
Bhargavi, I saw your pulav. It looks amazing. I am going to try it sometime.
Lakshmiammal, I have no idea about toddlers
. I am sorry.
Thanks Lakshmi.
Hi Shipa,
The other day my husband said he wanted to have Spinach soup and I had no clue how to make it.
Tried your recipe and it turned our really good.
I also added half green chilli, 1 clove garlic and half tomato to reduce the smell of palak.
And it was quite filling also.
Hey girls, here is my variation of the good old palak soup. Slightly cook spinach leaves with a little water, salt and cinnamon stick. Strain the leaves and liquidise them by adding little by little milk in a mixer. The colour becomes light green. Then cook the mixture by stirring lightly. Add little salt and pepper. For serving top with grated cheese.
Hi shilpa,
Tried palak soup & my husband loved it.I also added one clove garlic.
Thanks for ur recipe.
hai
i tried this soup
its really a healthy one
thanks
This soup tastes awesome if u add a few tbsps of fresh cream. and replace onion with garlic.
Hi,
Your recepies are always simple but very tasty.
I added Maggi Veg Cubes that I had in my refrigerator to the soup. It gave a very nice flavour to the soup, especially for people who do not like palak smell.
Bageshri
I have very high cholesterol and was searching the net for healthy soup recipes. Why is it that everybody uses butter or oil in spinach soups? So how come its healthy? Do you have a simple recipe for different soups without the white sinful maida and the very dangerous butter? Thanks
Shilpa: You could leave both sinful maida and dangerous butter from the recipe and it would still taste good.
Thanx for the recipe. I have tried this without onion. Just added little jeera and it tasted good. My son who don’t usually like soups, had it twice.
For Anirban
You could boil spinach and a handful of peas in water. Drain the water, refresh in cold water and puree it. It should be very smooth. Transfer to a container, bring it to a boil, add some low fat milk. You will see the soup a very light colour. Add salt and pepper and serve.
For the non cholestrol group, could add finely chopped onions fried in butter. This
Hi Shilpa,
I tried ur Spinach reciepe yesterday, even after the stir fry in butter and the biol , the raw taste of spinach was there. Any idea what went wrong ?
Hi Shilpa,
Thank you very much. It’s very easy to made & definately I will try this for my 2 year old child & husband. Is it fine?