How to make Keerai Chutney -

Spinach chutney with a touch of spice.

Sanjeev Kapoor

This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

Main Ingredients : Spinach (पालक), Onion (प्याज़ )

Cuisine : Hyderabadi

Course : Pickles, Jams and Chutneys


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Keerai Chutney

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Hindi: palak
Treasure house of vitamins and minerals, spinach must be included in the week's menu. The usage can be varied: chopped spinach leaves cooked with potatoes is a semi-wet vegetable with rotis, a few spinach leaves thrown in with mixed vegetables and turned into a soup is lovely on a cold winter night, chopped and blanched spinach makes a different sort of raita, spinach puree can be used in cutlets or kababs, the list goes on.

Prep Time : 6-10 minutes

Cook time : 16-20 minutes

Serve : 4

Level Of Cooking : Easy

Taste : Spicy

Ingredients for Keerai Chutney Recipe

  • Spinach 1 medium

  • Onion 1 medium

  • Tomato 1 medium

  • Green chillies 2

  • Oil 1 teaspoon

  • Split black gram skinless (dhuli urad dal) 1 tablespoon

  • Split Bengal gram (chana dal) 1 tablespoon

  • Whole dry red chillies

  • Asafoetida 1/4 teaspoon

  • Coconut, scraped 4 tablespoons

  • Tamarind pulp 1 teaspoon

  • Salt to taste

Method

Step 1

Wash and drain spinach. Roughly chop. Peel, wash and finely chop onion.

Step 2

Wash and finely chop tomato. Remove stem, wash and chop green chillies.

Step 3

Heat oil in a vessel. Add urad dal and chana dal and roast to a golden brown. Add red chillies, asaofetida, chopped onions, chopped tomatoes and green chillies.

Step 4

Stir-fry for five minutes. Add the spinach, scraped coconut, tamarind pulp and salt. Mix well.

Step 5

Remove from heat and cool. When cool grind to a fine paste. Serve.

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