Keerai Molakootal

Ingredients:


Spinach/Palak/keerai - 1 bunch (serving for 2 people)

Salt

Turmeric powder

Toor Dal - 1 cup (well cooked)


Grinding:

Coconut grated/powder - 1/2 cup

Red Chilli - 1

Milagu/Black Pepper- few

Cumin Seeds/Jeera- 1tsp

"Cumin Seeds and Black-pepper are two another healthy Ingredient"



Seasoning:

Mustard Seeds -1 tsp

Asafoetida Powder a pinch

Cumin seed - 1/2 tsp

Ulud dal - 1 tsp


Method:

Cut keerai finely, add salt, turmeric powder and sprinkle some water and cook keerai for few minutes and keep it aside. Now take the blender add the blending material (coconut, red chilli, black pepper and cumin seeds) and grind it to a paste and add little water to it so that the kootu would have a gravy effect. Now take a frying pan and do the seasoning (mustard seeds, asafoetida powder, Cumin seeds and Ulud dal). Note fry the Ulud dal well. Now add the cooked keerai, toor dal and the ground paste and saute well and cook it for few minutes. Keerai moolakootal is ready to be served with hot steamed rice/rasam rice/ rotis..