East Indian

Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry)

Name: Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: East Indian
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

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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.

15 min Easy Diabetic friendly Low carb High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

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.

Watch how to cook Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry)

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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.

The dish at the centre
- Aloo Posto (Potato in Poppy Seed Paste)
  
  35 min
The protein alongside
- Arhar Dal (Bihari-Style Toor Dal)
  
  30 min
What it is eaten with
- Bajra Bhakri (Pearl Millet Flatbread)
  
  35 min

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.

Every tracked allergen in Saga Bhaja (Odia Greens Stir-Fry)
Allergen	In this dish
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 90 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 300 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

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.