Keerai cutlet is a popular South Indian snack made from spinach, potatoes, and spices. It is a great way to incorporate leafy greens into your diet and is also a delicious snack. Here’s a recipe to make keerai cutlet Enjoy the delicious and healthy snack!
This dish made with spinach (keerai) can be served as a side dish to any rice varieties. This particularly goes well with rasam sadam or sambar sadam. Here is a list of different kinds of spinach (keerai).
Keerai Cutlet
Course: Poriyal, SnacksCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Medium7
servings10
minutes20
minutesLooking for a delicious side dish to pair with rice varieties? Try this spinach (keerai) recipe that goes perfectly with rasam sadam or sambar sadam.
Ingredients
Spinach (Keerai) – 1 bunch
Big onion – 1
Tomato – 1
Sambar Powder – 1 teaspoon (heaped)
Turmeric Powder – ¼ teaspoon
Garam Masala Powder – ¼ teaspoon
Ginger garlic paste – ½ teaspoon
Boiled potato medium size – 2 Nos
Besan flour – 1 cup
Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Oil – five to six tablespoons or as required
Directions
- Wash the greens thoroughly and finely chop them. Finely chop the onion and tomato as well.
- Heat two to three teaspoons of oil in a kadai. Once it’s hot, add the chopped onion and fry for a while.
- Add the ginger garlic paste and stir well.
- Next, add the tomato pieces and fry until they are well mashed.
- Mix in the sambar powder, turmeric, garam masala, and salt, ensuring they are well combined.
- Add the chopped greens and quickly mix for a second. Turn off the stove and remove the kadai from heat.
- Once the mixture has cooled down enough to handle, add boiled potatoes and besan flour. Mix the ingredients by hand until they form a dough.
- Take a portion of the dough about the size of a lemon and shape it into a ball. Flatten the ball slightly.
- Heat a tawa and lightly grease it with oil. Arrange the cutlets on the tawa and pour one or two teaspoons of oil around them. Maintain medium heat.
- Gently turn the cutlets after a few minutes and allow them to cook on the other side.
- Repeat this process until the cutlets turn crispy and acquire a nice golden brown color.
Recipe Video
Notes
- Adding potato is optional. Without potato also you can make it.
Mouthwatering!! I sure want to try it out sometime!
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Looks very yummy!! I loved your blog and the pictures you post. I visit your blog almost everyday for new posts. Keep it Up.
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Your site is really interesting. The picture are too good and the colour makes us mouth watering.
Keep it up.
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hi this is me arti, my mom use to scold me always saying that wy don you cook for me one day at least..But i hesitated cooking for her..suddenly i thought of surprising her when she returns from her work so i searched for an recipe in net and finally i found your site and prepared keerai cutlet for her,..and the recipe came out well and she was more happy that day and from the day onward i have started to visit your site regularly and made my mom so proud…really thanks for your tasty recipes best wishes for your future work
Hi Aarthy,
Nice to hear that this recipe came out well. Thank you for your feedback and your wishes.
Hello Kamala,
I tried your recipe and we all liked it. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
I visited your web site. its really superb…In keerai-cutlet, u told that to add besan flour. i have one doubt. besan flour means urad dal right. shall i use urad dhal instead of besan flour
Hi Lavenya,
Thank you for visiting. Besan means “Kadalai Maavu”, not Urad dhal. It is added for binding. You can use corn flour/all purpose flour or rice flour also. But besan flour is healthier and tastes good.
Hi Kamala, i see you have put Keerai in many recipes, what exactly is keerai, is it green vegetables or Cucumber? can you please confirm
Hi Laura,
“Keerai” is the green leaves of certain trees and plants which we use in our cooking. It is something like “Spinach”. Please check the following link where I have posted pictures of some “Keerai” varieties.
http://www.kamalascorner.com/2008/03/keerai-greens-bunch-of-nutrition.html
Simple and uncluttered site with clear instructions for making very interesting dishes. Can I use vasalai keerai for the spinach preparations? Thanks
Hi Zarin Mistry,
Thank you for your kind comments. Spinach is called in Tamil as “Pasalai Keerai” and you can use it.
Hello Kamala aunty,
I tried keerai cutlet and it came out very well.My kids liked it very much.This dish is easy and something different.Thankyou for giving us more new recipes.
Thank you for your kind feed back Sowdha.
very nice recipes i will try one by one
basin flour items are good
thankyou
Very tasty.all my family likes it.wish you to give more recipies
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can u suggest me recipies to reduce weight
Loved the recipe. Can you add an option to PIN it? so that it will be more helpful for people like me to keep track on the recipes we read & loved.. Thanks! 🙂
Thank you Beulah. Will do the needful to pin it.
Thanks Kamala for this wonderful recipe. Followed your recipe, but just substituted besan flour with potato and loved the outcome. My whole family like the cutlets. My husband was all praises for the keerai cutlet. Thanks to you.
Thank you Debora for your kind feed back. It is good idea to add potatos too.
going to try this for eve snack and will let you know the result. All dishes are good
Dear Kamala,
Just got to see your site
The dishes look great and mouth watering.
Do tell me how to make keerai rice and what keerai to use for making this rice
Thanks
Jaisudha A
Please check here for the Keerai Rice Recipe http://www.kamalascorner.com/rice/keerai-greens-rice.html. You can make it with any available Keerai.
Thanks for this Awesome dish. Turned out to be delicious. Love the crispiness outside and moistness inside the cutlet..
Thank you for your kind feedback.