Has your family ever pondered in evening “What Shaak to make today?”. Many a times we miss the obvious. In an effort to help the food-makers make the decision on those rare days when they are not certain, here is a post to consolidate the list of shaaks that kutchis usually make at home.
This is a list of the shaaks made routinely and NOT a list of shaaks made for special purposes (like guests, etc). So I am assuming Shaaks like “Navratan Korma, Shahi Paneer, etc” Wont figure on this list since no-one really makes those during normal week-days.
Also I am not sure which term do most people use at home “Saag”, “Shaak” or “Sabji”. Hence I put all 3 in the title.
I will compile an alphabetically sorted list based on the comments. Here are some to start you off with:
Aloo-Pyaas Shaak (Onions and Potatoes with gravy)
Aloo Shaak (Dry)
Aloo-Palak
Aloo-Gobi
Besan Shaak (made with Besan and onions)
Cabbage Curry
Doodhi-Chana Dal
Tomato Shaak (made with tomatoes)
Mug nu shaak
Turiya ane moong daal
plain cauliflower
Flower vatana (cauliflower with green peas)
Flower vatana ane bateta
Bharela Ringna (stuffed indian eggplant)
Turiya vatana
Tindora
Bhinda
Vatana(green peas) ane Bateta
Chore jo Shaak
Chane jo shaak
Masoor jo shaak
Rajma
Ringna, Batata, Vatana ane Tameta
French Beans
Bhinda
Turiya vatana
Turiya patra
Dudhi – chana dal
Dudhi vatana tameta
Frozen mixed veggies (peas, carrots, green beans, lima beans)
Green beans
long beans
Palak Paneer
Paneer Mutter
Cabbage with and w/o mutter, bell pepper
Cauliflower with and w/o mutter, bell pepper
Tindora
White zucchini
Ringna-batata-vatana-methi(fresh or dry)
Bhinda with Onion
Bharela Bhinda
Bharela Ringna
Bharela Bell Pepper (Side Dish)
Bhartu
Tomato
GreenBeans with Carrots
Methi with Onion
Methi with Tomato,Onion and Bateta (French Fries)
Spinach with Onion
Bateta with Methi,Tuver,Onion and sometimes Tomato
Papdi
Turia
Guvar
Tindora
Bateta,Vatana and Tomato
How can we forget the 5-minute Shaaks-
Kele jo shaak ( Tikkho & Mattho)
Gaajar (carrots) jo shaak
Kaakadi(cucumber) jo shaak (even though I’m not fond of this one, I know its pretty popular)
There’s also the following…some of which are “best out of waste”
Tameta- sev
Mule je pan jo shaak ( w or w/o besan)
Kande je pan jo shaak ( w or w/o besan)
Aaluchi paatal bhaaji (Colocassia leaves/arbi ke patte)…..yummy
Karinge jo shaak
There’s also –
Makkai jo sancho
Phansi(greenbeans) +topro+vatana
Parval
Paneer Bhurji with green bell pepper
French beans + kacha kela + drumstick + white pumpkin with coconut and corriander curry
papdi + kacha kela
Palak + moong dal
Palak + Chhole
Palak + corn
DhanShak is our favourite which had all Dals + vegetables
Wow – Quite a few combinations!
Few more to add from my list –
Apple jo shaak
Broccoli+Onion+Bell Pepper
Palak+Onion+tomato
Long beans + Carrot
Zucchini + Bell Pepper
Ringa Bateta Sambhariya (Dry or gravy)
broccoli in white sauce
bell pepper + aloo
corn/baby corn + red n green bell pepper in tomato gravy.
dhudhi kofta shaak
kacha kela shaak (dry)
kadhi bhindi jo shaak
kadhi ringna jo shaak
bell pepper/ chillies/methi in thick kadhi.
Unfortunately we dont make half the shaak from Prashant’s list
🙁
Hopefully his wish list will come true soon 🙂
Kovalum Mutter (with coconut, onion, tomato)
Baigan Bharta
Aloo Palak, Palak Tofu
Aloo Methi
Gatha
and Chole
Thanks to all the contributors for sharing their daily menu. I will compile in a nice table format and include it as part of main post. Hopefully everyone will find it useful on those “rare” days that you start wondering what should I prepare today. 🙂
Great ideas to try out
Beet jo saag easy and tasty
Long parvel ( south indian sabzi and dal)
corn jo saag
Palak and Tofu
papad jo saag ( for parushan )
few more,
methi bateta/methi kela
french beans+carrots
turia+coconut jo shaak
tuver+tomato jo shaak
vaalore jo shak
bell pepper+tomato+peanuts
sprouted moong jo shaak
Hey People……looks like no one likes/makes the famous
“kaju-karela” 🙁 considering we get pretty good karela’s in the bay-area !!
I do make kaju-karela but that is a weekend lunch menu as it needs dal, rice, kachumber, chatney, papad, chhas to go with it…yummy. It is our favourite shhak.
We do make Beans(Fansi/Chori) Muthiya +Onions+Potatoes.
Turiya Nu Bharelo Shaak
Greens(Collards/Kale/Chard/Palak)
Potato Chips jo Shaak
Karela jo Salad
Methi/Bhindi jo kadhi varo shaak
I was wondering how come Sneha has not posted. :-). Sneha by Potato Chips Shaak do you mean Shaak from Frozen French Fries.
I make a side dish from French Fries that tastes heavenly with Rice and Kadhi.
I sometimes use frozen french fries if pressed for time but generally fry chips at home they are more crunchier
Do not forget all the khators we make during Panjusan parva.
(dry chick peas, black eye beans, dry green peas,laal chana)
Prashant,
While you are compiling the list of shaaks, some of them are new others and hence might not have the receipe for it. If you can think of a way for people to add their receipes to it. Also putting name of people against a sabji which is uncommon will help, so that we know whom to call if we want to try something different.
Yes, that was the plan. To put the name of 1-2 people who know that shaak besides it. We will request those folks then to write a article describing the recipe and we will have a link to that recipe from this post.
Everyone rejoice. We are about to introduce some new dishes in your daily life. 🙂