Baked Spinach Corn In White Sauce

Baked Spinach Corn is a continental dish, cooked in white sauce and served with garlic bread. It is an excellent dish to be served at parties or in your day to day meals. We all are very well aware of the benefits of this leafy vegetable. Storehouse of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, manganese, vitamins A, C, E, K and B6, thiamin, protein, fibre. It is low in fat and even lower in cholesterol. We often look for ways to incorporate spinach into our daily meals in some form or the other. Spinach juice, spinach chapati, Palak Paneer (Cottage cheese dumplings in spinach gravy), Palak ki kadhi (spinach in gram flour and curd gravy), Palak ka saag (spinach vegetable), etc. Luckily my children love spinach in any form, be it a traditional Indian dish or a continental one. They are fond of spinach. So, I also try to make different dishes using this leafy vegetable. Baked Palak Corn is one such dish. They love it all the more because it is served with garlic bread. Yes, instead of chapati, it tastes good with garlic bread. Garlic bread, is also homemade with wheat flour. Another good plus point of this dish is the white sauce. Normally white sauce is made using all purpose flour but I make it with wheat flour only. Believe me, there is hardly any difference between the two, except the colour of course. And when mixed with spinach or pasta, even the colour does not matter. Unless you mention, no one will come to know that it is made with wheat flour. It does involve 3 different steps (1) Preparing Spinach (2) Boiling Corns (3) Preparing White Sauce You can prepare spinach and boil corns in advance and keep in the refrigerator. This saves your time. I have used American corns here. You can use that or canned corns or take out from the corn web. For making this dish, the more finely spinach is chopped, the better it is. I usually chop it in my food processor.