Palak keerai masiyal recipe
Palak keerai masiyal recipe | Pasalai keerai masiyal without dal for rice
Servings: 3 people
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- 2 cups Palak / Pasalai keerai /Spinach
- 1 to 2 Green chilli
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- pinch Sugar
- Salt as needed
To temper
- 2 tsp Ghee
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- ½ tsp Urad dal
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds
- 1 Red chilli
- pinch Hing
- 1 Big onion or small onion
- 5 Garlic cloves (finely chopped)
Instructions
- Wash and chop the palak leaves roughly. Cook it with green chilli, turmeric powder, a pinch of sugar and salt adding required water in a kadai.
- Cool down the mixture and grind to a smooth paste. Instead of grinding the keerai, you can mash it with a masher too. Heat ghee in a small kadai.
- Splutter mustard seeds, urad dal, cumin seeds, red chilli and hing. Saute onion, garlic cloves till transparent. Add to the ground palak. Mix well and serve with plain rice adding ghee. Enjoy !
Notes
- Adding a pinch of sugar and turmeric powder while cooking palak helps to retain its bright green color.
- Adjust the quantity of green chilli as per your taste.