sag seeds?

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having had a very nice curry last night - it made me think about growing our own sag... and I have seen it on a program about allotments, so it is possible in the UK

anyone know where I can get some seeds?

[John Headstrong]

sag, as in sag aloo ?

sag is spinach, unless you are talking about the spice 'sag' which is dill

or we might be talking about totally different things

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yes sag as in sag aloo, and whilst you can substitute spinach, sag is a different veg - or so they tell me at my local Indian restaurant
I have been told you can make spinach taste like sag with the addition of tea.. and if you have sag in a restaurant and get that tea taste,, then you are likely to be eating the real thing.
I saw on a program on allotments an Indian gentleman growing sag, saying you cant buy it in this country.

So - I was assuming it was something different from spinach or beet spinach, however, I can't find any info on it....

[John Headstrong]

well you have kicked off a debate in a IRC room I hang around in.

most people did say "it is spinach" but it seems that "sag" or "saag" really means "greens" so really quite vague, looks like it is whatever is growing when you cook.

http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/histor ... vocab.html
http://aromahope.blogspot.com/2007/05/sai-bhaji.html

Methi is fenugreek, sarson is mustard. I have used nettle has a spinach replacement and loads of people grow chard but call it and use it has spinach.

So I think what you (and now me) are after is a good mix of soft greens, or whatever you can get growing in your patch.

I have a salad bed that has a large selection of salady type things, maybe we need a bed with a selection of "saggy" type things?

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well - seems you may well be right.

I looked it up in my copy of Madhur Jaffrey's 'Ultimate Curry Bible'

and she says 'In India, we often combine different greens to make what is generically referred to as Saag' and then goes on to give a recipe that includes both spinach and radish greens.

Makes me wonder about the Indian gentleman growing sag on his allotment though.. and the thing I was told about tea flavour...

[Wombat]

Makes me wonder about the Indian gentleman growing sag on his allotment though.. and the thing I was told about tea flavour...

Maybe after the camera went off he was wetting himself laughing at all the silly white fellers..........

Nev

[ohareward]

After reading this thread I 'Googled' saag aloo, and most of the sites said that saag was a spinach.

Robin

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yeh I did that too.

but still my local restaurant said otherwise, which might just be a misunderstanding, and tea taste allotment things too.