Clean Eating Indian Healthy Saag Recipe - My Natural Family (2024)

This Clean Eating Indian healthy saag recipe gets my children and me to eat more veggies. My family has seriously been on an Indian food craze. We love it so much. It is a meal that we can all eat together and enjoy! Not to mention Indian food has so much flavor and taste - it leaves you wanting more and more.

Since it can be expensive to go eat out for Indian food, I have been on a mission to get some great recipes to have on our frequent list of meals for dinners. I like how the spinach is so transformed, you can't even tell it's spinach. Well, other than the color. Because of that, my kids will eat it and they don't even know it's healthy.

Our family first tried Indian food a few years ago when we were adding on to our house. It was a HUGE addition and took four months (during the winter with several weeks of the outside wall partially missing, totally missing or with an uninsulated room. We used the garage to set up a temporary kitchen complete with an oven and fridge. No dishwasher though.

Our garage is an old converted carport and you can see daylight through the walls in many places. It was VERY cold. I could see my breath out there every morning. I often resorted to turning on the oven and opening the door cause the portable heaters we used were pretty much useless.

Let's just say, it seemed like forever, and I used every excuse I could think of to go out to eat a lot. Well, after a while of that, we were sick of our regular restaurants and pretty much sick of eating out in general. My husband would often stay at home since he has so many food allergies he can only eat at a handful of restaurants.

Either that, or he was eating something real quick and then cleaning up the construction dust so we could come in the house. So one night I told the kids we were going to try something new and they had to try it, whether they wanted to or not, and they couldn't complain and they had to try it.

But I wanted to pick the place to eat for once and they could have leftovers if they didn't like dinner. Well, guess what? They LOVED it. They especially loved the tikka masala.

We ended up going to the same Indian restaurant so many times that the workers there knew us. My children are mostly stuck on tikka masala and like it enough that they see no reason to try anything else. I like tikka masala fine, but I don't like how it's made with chicken breasts.

I preferan Indian saag recipe with chicken thighs because they are much moister and have a deeper flavor. Although, we do try to eat vegetarian on occasion, so that's why I made it with Paneer cheese this time.

Here are some tips, tricks, and suggestions for this Indian saag recipe:

• Check out myYeast-Free, Quick Naan Breadrecipe that goes perfectly with this recipe.
• Indian saag is traditionally made with paneer cheese and I made my own paneer cheese for these photos. It's incredibly easy to make and only involves milk and lemon juice. Paneer cheese bought in the store works wonderfully as well, of course. The Saag can also be made with chicken or lamb if you prefer having a protein in your dish and that will make it Paleo.
• Try it with some steamed, mashed cauliflower or cauliflower rice for a Paleo and Whole30 option or with rice for a gluten-free diet. For a Clean Eating diet, try short grain brown rice * or quinoa *.
• The coconut milk may be subbed with cream, milk, almond milk, etc. It's such a small amount of it, that it doesn't matter all that much. I like it with coconut milk, but I often don't feel like opening a can of coconut milk and taking out such a small amount, so I often just use heavy cream 'cause I LOVE heavy cream.

This Paneer is simple to make and full of nutritious ingredients. I would love to know if you try it and any variations you make with it and who you make it for.

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