Keerai/Spinach Sambhar

Spinach is one of a favorite vegetable for us and my mom cooks different type of spinach and makes spinach poriyal,sambhar and kottu every other day.Never had any problem in eating spinach and love to have different varieties of the spinach.My kiddo also loves to eat and one of his favorite is spinach sambhar and I make it once in a week.

Spinach sambhar can be made with toor dhal or moong dhal along with black channa and it tastes excellent with rice and some vegetable fry such as potato or cauliflower.Here follows the recipe.....

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Spinach(finely chopped)	2-3 cups
Toor Dhal/Thuvaram paruppu	1/2cup
Black Channa(soaked)	1/2cup
Shallots/Chinna venkayam	10-12 nos.
Tomato	1no.(medium size)
Sambhar Powder	1tsp
Turmeric Powder	1/4tsp
Tamarind Paste	1tsp
Oil	1tsp
Salt	to taste

To temper

Ingredient	Quantity
Mustard seeds/Kadugu	1/2tsp
Urad Dhal/Ullutham paruppu	1tsp
Cumin seeds/jeeragam	1/2tsp
Red Chilly(broken)	1no.
Asafoetida/Perungayam	a pinch
Curry leaves	1sprig
Ghee	1tsp

Method

                     Pressure cook the toor dhal and channa,chop the spinach,cut the shallots,tomato to fine pieces and keep aside.

• Keep a pan with oil and saute the shallots till transparent and then tomatoes.

• Once the tomato is cooked add the chopped spinach and sambhar powder and saute it for a minute.Add the cooked dhal and black channa to and add a cup of water and salt,turmeric powder to it.Let it cook till the raw smell goes off.

• Now add the tamarind paste and cook it for a boil.In a separate pan temper the ingredients given for tempering with ghee and add it to the sambhar.

• Spinach Sambhar is ready.

Enjoy...........................

• Any type of spinach can be used to make this sambhar
• Use of shallots give a nice flavor and taste.
• Adding the black channa gives an excellent taste and it is purely optional.
• This sambhar is slightly watery than the regular sambhar.
• A garlic clove can be added in the tempering which gives extra flavor.

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