Simple stir fry with fresh kale leaves, sautéed onions, garlic, spices and fresh coconut!
Kale Poriyal Recipe / Kale Stir Fry Indian Style / Kale Keerai Poriyal Recipe / How to make Kale Poriyal / How to make Indian Style Keerai Poriyal
Kale greens are highly nutritious, very rich in iron and comes under super foods. It belongs to the wild cabbage family and tastes similar to that of Murungai keerai (Drumstick leaves)
Kale is always available in abundant here in the USA and I use it as substitute for Murungai / moringa leaves which is not that easily available. This keerai / greens is lightly bitter, takes a little longer to cook when compared to other leafy greens. Stir frying it with good amount of onion, garlic and coconut will help to balance the bitterness. You may include a bit of sugar / palm sugar preferably to cut down on the bitterness.
Keerai Poriyal is a must in our home no matter what the menu looks like. The days when we make fish, fish kuzhambu or Puli kara kuzhambu… the side would be some kind of leafy greens stir fry some include cooked dal / coconut and lazy days just simple saute with garlic and butter!
Here are some of the keerai poriyal recipes that you can try…
Vallarai Keerai Poriyal – Indian Pennywort – Brahmi leaves
Vendhaya Keerai Poriyal Recipe ~Methi Leaves Stir Fry ~Fenugreek Leaves Fry
Bok Choy Poriyal – Keerai Poriyal
Kale Poriyal – Indian Style Kale Stir Fry
Ingredients
Temper
- 1 each Dry red chili
- 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp Split black gram ullundu
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida
- 4 each Curry leaves optional
- 2 tsp Oil
Stir fry
- 5 stalks Kale large
- 1/2 cup Onion diced
- 4 cloves Garlic crushed
- 1/4 cup Grated coconut
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric
- 1 cup Water
- 3/4 tsp Salt or to taste
Instructions
- Kale takes quite a long time to cook and even after cooking fully will still look leafy and chewy. They never become soft and tender like spinach, texture similar to drumstick leaves. It can be directly cooked with some water while sautéing or can be blanched separately. I prefer to cook along with the seasoning to make the work easier.
- Wash the kale greens, trim off the thick stalks and discard. Finely chop the leaves and tender stems.
- Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard, cumin seeds, split black gram, dry red chili and curry leaves.
- Sprinkle asafoetida, add diced onions and garlic until lightly soft.
- Add the chopped kale greens, turmeric and water. Let it cook uncovered for 6 minutes over medium flame or until all the water is absorbed.
- When it looks fully wilted and dry, add salt and garnish with coconut.
- Switch off and serve hot as a side for rice!
Comments
11 responses to “Kale Poriyal – Kale Stir Fry Indian Style”
where can i get this Kale in mumbai. can any one help me
Is Kale available in Bangalore? Where can I find it?
Pradeep,
I don’t think Kale is available in India, but nowadays you get most of the international stuffs at any posh supermarkets. So check it out! After googling I found out that its called parattaikkeerai in Tamil. Thanks.
looks delicious, i am going to try right now
Hi Mullai,
Please do reply.Kale came out well, but it was little sour. Will it be same.
Karthika, slight correction… it tastes bitter and tangy. They come from wild cabbage family with high content of Iron which makes it taste soooo odd. But they are very good for health. Options that you can consider is to increase flavor by adding more dal or temper with butter or ghee. They are not that disgusting compared to mustard greens, just my 2 cents!!
Hi Mullai,
Tried this today. It was good and it was a little bit crunchy as you have mentioned.It is a nice alternative to the usual spinach and methi that we used to take all the time. I missed murunga keerai a lot because we have a murunga maram in my mother’s house. So romba naal aasai innikku neraiveriyathu.
Thanks,
Priya Swaminathan
is this kale get in india? or can we use other greens for this receipe?
coooll..i have seen this vegetable in the American/spanish grocery store, but didnt know what kind of vege was that. thanks a lot, Mullai 🙂
actually i have seen this "kale" in the market so many times but i will not get that bcos i dont know how to cook, now i can……… thanks mullai
Madam,where do u find kale?