Spinach Poriyal(My style)

Description

We all know that Popeye made himself super strong by eating spinach, but you may be surprised to learn that he may also have been protecting himself against osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer, arthritis, and other diseases at the same time.

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Ingredients
1 pack Spinach
¼ cup Moong dhal
1 tsp Cumin seed
1 no Green chilli (chopped)
½ no Onion(chopped finely)
3 pinch Sambar or rasam powder
Salt (as per taste)
3 tsp Oil
¼ cup Coconut (grated)

Instructions

Step 1. pressure cook the dhal and keep it aside(4-5 whistle atleast)

step2. clean the spinach and drain the water.

step3. in a wide pan add oil and when it turn hot add cumin seed and g.chiilies when it splutters add onion.

step4. fry onion for 4-5 mintues

step5. add spinach and turn it around continously for 1 mintue.

step6. spinach will shrink in to a small amount now add some water and add salt and sambar/rasam powder( because spinach doesn’t have any taste of its own)

ste7. when spinach is well cooked add dhal.

step8. cook for 5-8 mintues cook often

step9. add coconut powder.(if need some water we can add at any stage)

step10. serve immediately.

Notes

if it is kind of dry add some water

Source

My friend-Ambica

Comments

7 responses to “Spinach Poriyal(My style)”

  1. danalakshmi Avatar
    danalakshmi

    to all my friends
    iam really new to cooking my friend told me it is spinach poriyal, moreover in kuttu we didn’t add coconut.
    any way it is healthier diet. spinach has lot of vitamins and proteins and so do lentils. it contains less oil, so please try it and let me know
    regards
    dana

  2. Visitor2 Avatar
    Visitor2

    I hate to do this but I have to agree with the last post.. Kootu it is. But it is a heck of a lot healthier than poriyal! Which with spinach, invariably, ends up quite greasy.. my 2 cents..
    Amala

  3. Sadhanaraveen Avatar
    Sadhanaraveen

    Dhana i ve not tried spinach poriyal so \far ..will try urs.. thanx for sharing.

    Sadhana Raveen

  4. newsweetwaves Avatar
    newsweetwaves

    If you want it as a poriyal or dry curry the way i do is to soak the moong dhal for about 20 minutes and half hour and when the spinach is cooking and you should without too much water add the moong dhal to it, will be very nice and dry and it will cook well with spinach you can also add coconut to it in the end

  5. divya mubarak Avatar
    divya mubarak

    dana, like ur spinach recipe i will prepare keerai….nice one..keep going..neenga popeye fana????

    DIvya Mubarak

    1. danalakshmi Avatar
      danalakshmi

      yes ofcourse just waiting for ur comments

  6. jlakshmi Avatar
    jlakshmi

    Dana

    No Offense .. My 2 cents ..this looks like Spinach Kootu.. I do the exact same way, For porial the dhal has to be 3/4th cooked and the porial must not stick to each other ( Must be like uthiri uthiriyaka ).

    I know u r going to tell me that ..” This is my style” !!..Thanks for sharing. I always go thru all of your recipes , they are good.
    Regs
    Jaya