DR. ALI’s Palak-Tiki Recipe
Majid Ali, M.D.
“Palak-Tiki” dinner, as prepared below, is an inexpensive, low-calorie, highly nutritious, and delicious dinner choice to be included in Dr. Ali’s Insulin Reduction Diet Plan. The ingredients listed below are sufficient for cooking eight palak-tikis. These tikis keep well for up to seven days in a refrigerator, when properly and individually saran-wrapped.
Ingredients for Sixteen Palak-Tiki Dinners
1. Frozen chopped spinach (Palak)
Net weight 48 ounces
2. Bason (gram powder available
at Pakistinian and Indian
stores) Two ounces
(potato powder may be used
instead of gram powder)*
3. Cumin powder One tablespoon
4. Cayenne pepper One and
one-half teaspoons
5. Salt One and one-half
teaspoons (or to your taste)
6. Fresh grated ginger root Four
ounces
7. Eggs, organic Two large
8. Lemon juice Four tablespoons
9. Extra virgin olive oil Three
ounces
Cooking Directions
1. Boil spinach (palak) with
two cups of water on slow heat
until softened, and squeeze out
excess water.
2. Add potato powder and knead
all of the above, except olive
oil and eggs, to make (add “a”)dough.
3. Make sixteen round tikis
(like meat patties) using all of
the dough.
4. Dip the palak-tiki in beaten
eggs and allow the extra egg to
drip.
5. Heat the skillet with a thin
layer of olive oil in it.
6. Fry on medium heat to a dark
brown color both sides.
7. Serve with your choice of
sauce or squeeze one-half lemon
(to your taste) on it.
8. Saran-wrap unconsumed
palak-tikis (removing all air
out) individually after they
have cooled and refrigerate.
Enjoy for up to one week.
For serving refrigerated palak-tikis, warm in a skillet lightly smeared with olive oil or re-heat it in a toaster oven.
* Potato powder adds only about one teaspoon of starch per tiki.
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