These healthy simmered potatoes are flavored with onions, ginger, tomatoes and spinach. A comforting side dish!
Neither my flip-flops nor I were prepared this morning for the sight of six inches of snow covering every rooftop, tree, and roadway. Now, I realize the first things that should have come to mind were shoveling and bundling up my kids for the frigid weather. Instead, my mind was on food. Warm, slow-cooked comfort food, with plenty of spices and pleasing aromas. My mind turned to the Crockpot Gingered Chickpea and Spicy Tomato Stew I made last year. However, with nary a chickpea to be found in my pantry and a distinct lack of will to drive to the store, I started to re-invent this recipe. I used the same spices - ginger, garlic, and coriander seeds - but replaced the chickpeas with potatoes and came up with a quick stovetop version. With fuzzy slippers on my feet, and the kids warmly bundled off to school, I sat down to enjoy a bowl of these potatoes as a feeling of well-being crept through my body.
The recipe:
Peel and wash russet potatoes. Slice into ⅓-inch rounds. Place potatoes in a large pot of cold, salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook until the potatoes are just tender, about 10 to 12 minutes. Drain the potatoes and set aside.
Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add chopped onion and cook, stirring, until the onions begin to brown. Add minced garlic cloves, minced fresh ginger, ground coriander, coriander seeds, salt, and black pepper. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
Add balsamic vinegar and coarsely chopped canned or fresh tomatoes. Bring the mixture to a boil. Add potatoes, reduce heat to medium, and simmer until the potatoes are tender. Scatter fresh spinach leaves over the potato mixture, cover the skillet and simmer until the spinach leaves are starting to wilt. Remove from the heat and serve.
Gingered Potatoes, Tomatoes & Spinach
1 lb. russet potatoes, peeled, washed & cut into ⅓-inch thick rounds
2 teaspoon olive oil
½ medium onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
1 cup chopped canned or fresh tomatoes
1 cup (packed) fresh spinach leaves
Place potatoes in a large pot of cold, salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook until the potatoes are just tender, about 10 to 12 minutes. Drain the potatoes and set aside.
Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add chopped onion and cook, stirring, until the onions begin to brown. Add minced garlic cloves, minced fresh ginger, ground coriander, coriander seeds, salt, and black pepper. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
Add balsamic vinegar and coarsely chopped canned or fresh tomatoes. Bring the mixture to a boil. Add potatoes, reduce heat to medium, and simmer until the potatoes are tender. Scatter fresh spinach leaves over the potato mixture, cover the skillet and simmer until the spinach leaves are starting to wilt. Remove from the heat and serve.
Serves 4 to 6 as side dish.
eatgreek.net
it looks very tasty!!! 😀
Pegasuslegend
will nevr go back to snow in NY would have to have hubby find a new career! love this recipe so perfect for Florida keep warm my friend...move south!
Emily Malloy
Gorgeous colors and great flavors!
It's a HIT!
bunkycooks
Snow...wow! That seems so soon, but I guess we are almost to November. I best the chickpea version is especially tasty, but this version looks great, too.
Pacheco Patty
Love to hear about the snow, it sounds so beautiful. I like this gingered tomato potato recipe and will give it a try soon, thanks:)
A Canadian Foodie
Lovely opening paragraph. I am now looking for my fuzzy slippers! You have a lot more snow down there then we have in the "real" Canadian North! First snow was Tuesday and it was the light fluffy kind that blanketed everything in a crystalized wonderland. Monday was blue sky and crimson leafed fall splendour; Tuesday was a Christmas card. And, potatoes for breakfast somehow seems fitting.
🙂
Valerie
Torviewtoronto
healthy delicious presentation
judee@glutenfreeA-Z
Yikes! snow already.. Well, it gave you some great inspiration..I love everything in the recipe.
bellini valli
I don't dare peak outside for fear of seeing the white stuff, but all would be good with a comforting potato dish on my plate.
Tickled Red
Oh my that sounds nummy darlin'. I have to admit my system would go into shock if I were to wake up to snow this early in the season 🙁 Sending you warm hugs with the hopes that it will melt soon {{HUG}}