Spinach has lots of nutritional benefits. It is necessary to take spinach daily or at least thrice in a week. I had already posted keerai poriyal and kadayal recipes. Today i'ld like to share keerai kootu with moong dal and coconut.
Ingredients:
Keerai kootu Cooking Time : 20 mins
- Spinach - 1 bunch
- Moong dal - 3 tbsp
- Small onion - 6 to 8
- Tomato - 1(Small)
- Garlic - 6 cloves
- Green chilly - 1
- Coconut - 2 tbsp
- Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Asafoetida - a pinch
To Temper:
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
- Red chilly - 1
Cooking Instructions:
- Wash and drain spinach. Cleaning the spinach is the time consuming process.
- Add moong dal, spinach, onion, tomato, garlic, turmeric powder, asafoetida, in a pressure cooker. Add little water and pressure cook it for 3 whistles.
- In the meantime grind coconut, cumin seeds and green chilly to a smooth paste.
- Heat oil in a kadai and add all the tempering ingredients. Once it splutters add the cooked spinach dal mixture.
- Add salt and coconut green chilly paste. Cook for a couple of minutes.
- Serve with hot steam rice and vathal.
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