East Indian
Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry)
Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 cups mustard greens, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 dried red chilies
- 2 tbsp mustard oil
- 1/2 tsp panch phoron (five-spice blend)
- 3/4 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Wash and roughly chop the greens.
- Heat the mustard oil in a wide pan and temper with the panch phoron and dried red chilies until they crackle.
- Add the garlic and fry until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Add the greens and salt, and stir-fry over high heat until wilted and just tender, about 6 minutes, letting the extra moisture cook off.
- Serve hot as the daily leafy-greens side alongside dal and rice.
Serve it with
A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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Cook this with your whole family
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