Pui Shak is a well known leafy vegetable of West Bengal, Orissa . This is also known as Malabar spinach Or Climbing spinach Or Chinese Spinach etc. in other parts of India. This type of spinach is full of Vitamin A , Vitamin C, Iron & Calcium, but little high in protein per calorie. In West Bengal this leafy vegetable is cooked in vegetarian or non vegetarian both ways. In this Pui Curry fish head, shrimps even small fishes are also added.
Bengalis love Pui shak in stir fry way with eggplant, red pumpkins, potatoes. We serves this stir fried curry with rice & dal in lunch. We add fried Rohu fish head, Hilsa fish head, small fried shrimps, fried small fish in this stir fry. "Pui Shak/Shaager Chorchori" is a famous stir fried curry which is serves in any kind of Bengali lunch gathering like Wedding lunch, Rice Ceremony lunch, Or even in Picnic. Almost every Bengali love this with plain rice & masoor dal. This recipe has been adopted from my Granny's regular menu items. Here is the recipe...
