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We love the way the vegetable markets look during winters. The peas are sweeter, the berries shine brighter and the variety of winter greens that come to the fore are lusciously verdant, fresh and tender. This love for saags is reflected even on the menus of restaurants in India, that have at least one winter greens dish vying for our attention. Here’s our edit of some of the best leafy dishes on some of the coolest menus in the country.
Sarson & Makai at The Bombay Canteen
You can pick it up and eat it like a cute taco. The Bombay Canteen’s corn pancake has a dense bite and doesn’t taste like a plump chilla that it looks like. Instead, it has a fluffy pancake appeal that is topped with rustic sarson ka saag. They use four kinds of greens to make this topping: sarson or mustard greens, small-leaved bathua, basic spinach and radish greens. The recipe is levelled up with a coarse sambal made out of radishes and reduced corn juice that adds tremendously to create a