Healthy Food Recipes - Murungai Keerai Poriyal (Drumstick Leaves Poriyal)
Posted on: 09/Dec/2014 12:35:05 PM
Ingredients:
- Murungai Keerai (Drumstick Leaves) – 1 cup
- Onion - 2 nos.
- Garlic – 10 nos.
- Red Chilli – 2 nos
- Salt – To taste
- Cumin seed – ½ spoon
- Mustard seed – ½ spoon
- Bengal Gram (Kadala Parupu) – ½ spoon
- Urad Dhal – ½ spoon
- Oil – 4 spoon
To Roast and grind:
- Ground nuts – 3 spoon
- Red chilli – 1 no
Method:
- Thoroughly wash the drumstick leaves and keep it aside.
- In a kadai, heat 3 spoons of ground nut. Remove its skin and grind it along with 1 red chilli.
- Then again heat the pan and add oil to it. Then add cumin seeds, mustard seeds and allow to splutter.
- Also add the Bengal gram and urad dal to it for tempering.
- Wait until dal becomes light brown, then add Red chilli, Garlic, and chopped onion. Add salt to taste and add 100 ml of water to it
- Once the water gets boiled well, add the drumsticks and stir well, so that leaves do not get stick to each another as it may stop it from boiling well.
- Then close the lid and allow it to boil for 5 minutes.
- Finally add the grinded paste and stir well and serve hot.
Note:
- Do not allow the drumstick leaves to boil for longer times, as it may bring in bitter taste to the dish.
- Each and every greens will have slight bitter taste and over cook will elate it.
- In villages, people do not have the practice of rinsing the greens (Murungai keerai) as the believe washing might wind off the vitamins in it. (It`s not cooking well)
- In city, we ought to wash the greens before using it, due to over dust and pollution.
- After rinsing the leaves, drain it well and use it.
- Drumstick tree’s pods, flower tops, leaves, stem, root are all have nutritional values.
- An old proverb says, ‘A house can turns wealthy, if it owns a cow and a drumstick tree’.
- Incorporate drumstick leaves and fruits in your daily diet and attain its health benefits!
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
