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keerai poriyal recipe/siru keerai poriyal

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Total Time 20 minutes
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Greens/sirukeerai - washed and chopped 2 big bundles
  • Small onions sliced - 1/2 cup
  • Coconut grated - 1/4 cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Chilli powder - 2 tsp
  • oil - 3tsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1tsp

Method
 

  1. Thoroughly wash the greens and chop it.
  2. Keep a kadai add oil.
  3. Add mustard and let it splutter.
  4. Add onions and when half done add greens/sirukeerai.
  5. Add salt to keerai.
  6. After sometime the keerai will reduce in volume.(keep the flame not too high or not too low)
  7. Continue to stir by separating the leaves apart.
  8. When it is cooked add chilli-powder and mix continuously.
  9. Keep on low flame keep for some more minutes add coconut and switch off.

Notes

See to it the color of the leaves never changes.
Washing the greens is more important,should do it thoroughly to get rid of any stones,mud or pesticides!if any.
keep on separating the leaves apart so that it does not stick together.
keep the flame not too high or not too low.