Keerai masiyal is a traditional South Indian dish made with spinach and lentils. It is a healthy and nutritious recipe that is easy to make, perfect for a quick and delicious meal. Don’t forget to serve it with a dollop of ghee for that extra flavor!
This straightforward Keerai Masiyal recipe involves pressure cooking spinach along with green gram dal. You can try the Paruppu Keerai Masiyal.
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Paruppu Keerai Masiyal
Cooks in 20 minutesDifficulty: EasyThis Paruppu Keerai Masiyal can be prepared with any type of greens(keerai). This dish also goes by the name keerai kadayal.
Easy Keerai Masiyal
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minutesThis straightforward Keerai Masiyal recipe involves pressure cooking spinach along with green gram dal.
Ingredients
Keerai (Greens) – 1 bunch
Green Gram Dhal – ½ cup
Garlic flakes – 10
Onion (Medium size) – 1
Tomato (Medium size) – 1
Green Chillies – 2
Jeera (Cumin) – 1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Directions
- Soak the green gram dal in water for about thirty minutes.
- Rinse and finely chop the greens. Finely dice the onion and tomato. Slit the green chilies lengthwise.
- In a pressure cooker, combine the soaked dal, chopped greens, onion, tomato, green chilies, garlic flakes, cumin, turmeric powder, and salt, then add half a cup of water. Cook until you hear one whistle.
- Then remove and mash the mixture well. It requires no additional seasoning.
- Serve it with hot rice.
Recipe Video
Notes
- You can also cook it in an open vessel. Be careful not to overcook it. If desired, you can season it with a bit of mustard and urad dal. When serving with hot rice, consider adding a teaspoon of ghee to the rice.
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Hi Rekha,
Thank you for your suggestion for video. However, cooking, taking video and publishing will consume more time and need other’s help to take video when you cook. For the time being I am just cooking and posting the recipes with photos only. Will try to add video in future if time permits. Thank you once again for the interest shown in my recipes.
Hi Kamala
Came across this recipe and wanted to confirm that you have used paasi paruppu (yellow split gram dal, i.e. yellow moong dal or whole green gram dal). Your recipe calls for green gram dal and in the picture it looks like split yellow moong dal.
Thank you.
Hi Nirmala,
Thank you for visiting my site. Grenn Gram dal is pasi paruppu and I used pasi paruppu only.