Dill leaves recipe with step by step photos. This is an easy, fragrant, one-pot sautéed dish of dill leaves with potatoes made with minimal ingredients. This is a dry dish and can be called as aloo suva recipe in Hindi. Dill leaves are known as ‘suva’ in Hindi and ‘shepu’ in Marathi. Potatoes are called ‘aloo’ in hindi.
Dill leaves have a strong aroma and a slightly pungent taste. Nevertheless, these aromatic greens make for a nice dish by itself or in combination with another vegetable or legume. You could add dill leaves to spice up a salad, flavor a dal or sambar or make a simple sabzi.
My mother usually used to make sabzi or bhaji as I call them from dill leaves. One recipe used to be with potatoes and the other one used to be with moong lentils that is Shepu Bhaji.
Both of these dill leaves recipes used to go very well with chapatis and rice-dal combo. Dill leaves add a lot of flavor and punch to any dish, be it in salads, pasta and even in pakoras. Sometimes when I have a tiny bunch of dill leaves then I either make pakoras or raita with them.
The dill leaves recipe which I have posted here is very simple and easy to make. For this recipe, we only add chopped garlic, red chilli powder, and turmeric powder. No other seasoning is added.
Since garlic is added, this sabzi has a garlicky flavor and tastes good. Both dill leaves and garlic are a winning combination and makes the dish healthy. So the result is a superb dill leaves sabzi spiced with garlic.
The addition of potatoes makes the dish more hearty and filling. You could use the regular potatoes, new potatoes or even the baby potatoes.
You can also make it without potatoes but then you need to add more dill leaves. Veggies like carrots, peas, cauliflower are some other options that you can consider to include in place of potatoes for a filling and healthier dish.
The dish can be packed for lunch box also with a side of roti, jeera paratha, plain paratha or whole wheat bread.
How to make Dill Leaves Recipe
1. Take 250 to 275 grams dill leaves (suva) bunch. Remove the dill leaves from the stems. Rinse dill leaves thoroughly in water. Drain all the water using a colander or strainer.
2. Chop the dill leaves. You will need 3.5 to 4 cups chopped dill leaves.
Also rinse, peel and chop 2 to 3 medium-sized potatoes. You will need 1 to 1.25 cups chopped potatoes.
Peel, rinse and finely chop 7 to 8 small to medium sized garlic. You will need 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic. Keep aside.
Tip: Chop the potatoes in smaller cubes or wedges so that they get cooked faster.
Sauté Potatoes
3. In a kadai or a pan heat 2 tablespoons oil. You can use sunflower oil or peanut oil. For a pungent flavor, you can even use mustard oil. Keep the flame to a low. Add the chopped garlic.
4. Mix well.
5. Fry for 3 to 4 seconds on a low heat.
6. Add the chopped potatoes.
7. Mix the potatoes with the garlic and oil mixture.
8. Stirring often saute potatoes for 3 to 4 minutes on a low flame.
9. Add ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder and ½ teaspoon Kashmiri red chilli powder (or sweet paprika).
10. Mix these two spice powders very well with the potatoes. Keep the flame to a low so that the spices do not get burnt.
Make Dill Leaves Recipe
11. Now add the chopped dill leaves (suva).
12. Mix everything very well.
13. Add salt according to your taste.
Tip – I recommend adding less salt initially and after the cooking is completed, then add more salt if needed. The dill leaves wilt and shrinks in size after cooking.
While initially, the leaves look a lot and plenty, after cooking the portion looks comparatively less.
Thus the addition of salt can become more if you consider the proportion of fresh dill leaves. It is better to add less salt first and then later you can add more if required.
14. Mix again.
15. Add ⅓ to ½ cup water.
16. Mix again well.
17. Cover and cook the dill leaves and potatoes on a low heat.
18. Check in between a couple of times to see if the water has not dried up. If the water dries up, you could add some more water. Stir and cover with lid to continue cooking.
19. Cook till the potatoes are softened and fork tender. Do not overcook the potatoes.
20. This dill leaves recipe is a dry dish, so ensure that no water remains once the potatoes are cooked.
If there is any water left, then cook without lid and let all the water get evaporated. Then switch off the flame.
21. Serve aloo suva sabzi with chapatis, roti, plain paratha or whole wheat bread. You can also serve it with the humble yet tasty combination of dal tadka with rice.
Overall it makes for a healthy dish and one of the flavorful ways to include dill leaves in your meal.
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Dill Leaves Recipe (With Potatoes)
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon oil – peanut oil or sunflower oil
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic or 7 to 8 small to medium sized garlic, finely chopped (lahsun), finely chopped
- 1 to 1.25 cups chopped potato cubes or 2 to 3 medium sized potatoes , cut in cubes
- 3.5 to 4 cups dill leaves , chopped or 250 to 275 grams (suva or shepu)
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder (ground turmeric)
- ½ teaspoon Kashmiri Chilli Powder or sweet paprika
- salt as required
- ⅓ to ½ cup water or add as required
Instructions
Preparation
- Remove the dill leaves (suva) from the stems. Rinse dill leaves thoroughly in water. Drain all the water using a colander or strainer.
- Chop the dill leaves.
- Also rinse, peel and chop 2 to 3 medium-sized potatoes. Tip – chop the potatoes in smaller cubes or wedges so that they get cooked faster.
- Peel, rinse and finely chop the garlic.
Sautéing potatoes
- In a kadai or a pan heat 2 tablespoons oil. For a pungent flavor, you can even use mustard oil. Keep the flame to a low.
- Add the chopped garlic and mix with the oil.
- Fry for 3 to 4 seconds on a low heat.
- Add the chopped potatoes and mix well.
- Stirring often saute potatoes for 3 to 4 minutes on a low flame.
- Add ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder and ½ kashmiri red chilli powder. mix these two spice powders very well with the potatoes.
Making dill leaves recipe
- Now add the chopped dill leaves (suva) and mix Everything very well.
- Add salt as required and mix well. Tip – add less salt and after the recipe is done, then you can add more salt if required.
- Add ⅓ to ½ cup water. Stir and mix.
- Cover and cook the dill leaves and potatoes on a low heat.
- Check in between a couple of times to see if the water has not dried up. If the water dries up, you could add some more water. Stir and cover with the lid to continue the cooking.
- Cook till the potatoes are fork tendered and softened. However make sure that you do not overcook the potatoes.
- This dill leaves recipe is a dry dish, so ensure that no water remains once the potatoes are cooked. If there is any water left, then cook without lid and let all the water get evaporated. Then switch off the flame.
- Serve aloo suva sabzi with chapatis or as a side dish with rice, dal or sambar or rasam. You can also pack it in lunch box with a side of roti, plain paratha or jeera paratha or whole wheat bread.
Notes
- You can increase the amount of kashmiri red chilli powder if you want.
- 1 to 2 green chillies can be added instead of kashmiri red chilli powder.
- The recipe can be halved or doubled.
- Add water as required for cooking potatoes. In the water dries up and the potatoes are not cooked, then add some more water. Cover and continue to cook.
- Baby potatoes also work very well in this recipe and can be added instead of regular potatoes.
- In place of potatoes you can use other veggies like cauliflower, carrots and green peas.
- You can also make it without potatoes but then increase the proportion of dill leaves.
Nutrition Info (Approximate Values)
This Dill Leaves Recipe is from the blog archives was first published on July 2010. It has been updated on December 2024.
Easy ,quick and delicious.loved it !
thanks mariam for this positive feedback.
Tip: it is better to cook the potatoes in the water before adding dill leaves. If dill leaves are cooked in water then they loose their color . Once potatoes are cooked and almost all the water is dry then add dill leaves and cook it covered for few minutes .
thanks for the tip asha.
Hi Dassana,
I am an ardent fan of ur blog. Love love love ur recipes n clicks.I hv a request. .u mentioned in the beginning of this entry that dill leaves are also made in combination vit mung dal. Could you please post the recipe?
Thank you so much..
ALIYA
thanks a lot aliya. will try to add this recipe. its my mom’s recipe and she makes it often.
Hi, it’s also made with Maash ki daal and spinach. Which is an outstanding dish I sip it up like soup,
For this recipe here I’d like to add. A few changed if anyone wishes for more “masala”.
Start with soften some onion not brown. Then add ginger garlic fry for a few mins add potato, CRUSHED chilli pepper, a dash of turmeric and 2-3 tomatoes (depending on size) and close the lid for a few mins. Once potatoes are half way tender add dill (generous amount) and once again close lid until done , turn heat high and stir until oil rises. Add cilantro ,
thanks for your response to aliya and also thanks for all the suggestions.
Very good recipe delicious too.
thanks sunil
Thanks for this delicious recipe. I served it with your spinach dal and very simple yoghurt and lime on the side – the yoghurt and dill were sublime together. I’ve only just discovered your blog and all of the recipes sound beautiful – can’t wait back to try more.
thats nice to know sally. simple and yet comforting meal you made. do try the other indian recipes as well.
This is a really great recipe!
I just wrote about all of the dill we are harvesting from our garden and shared your recipe on my blog (and linked to you).
Check it out here:
http://harmlesscolor.blogspot.com/2011/05/bounty-of-dill.html
thank you sarah. you are lucky to have a garden and harvest herbs and plants in your garden. you also have a wonderful blog. am glad you liked the recipe.
thanks for mentioning my recipe and linking back to the recipe. i too love dill leaves and add them in my recipes a lot.
awesome recipe… u have a lovely blog…do visit mine when u have time 🙂 http://heartyfeast.blogspot.com