Saturday, April 24, 2010

Edible leaves chutney/thogayal... :D

Ingredients:
  1. Edible leaves - 1 1/2 cups
  2. Green chillies - 6
  3. Big onion - diced
  4. Coriander seeds (Dhaniya seeds)
  5. Fenugreek (Methi) - 1/4 tsp
  6. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
  7. Garlic - 3 teeth (crushed)
  8. Oil - 2 tbsp
  9. Asafoetida - a pinch
  10. Salt - to taste
Preparation:
  • Heat oil in a frying pan, add mustard, fenugreek, asafoetida and remove when it sputters.
  • Fry coriander seeds and green chillies for a minute in the same oil and remove.
  • Fry leaves separately in oil till it shrinks.
  • First pound the spices and then add leaves, diced onion, salt, and pound to coarse paste.
  • Heat little oil, season little mustard seeds, and fry crushed garlic in that oil
  • Add to the leaves and mix well.
  • If possible, pound into coarse paste normally in olden type of stone and pestle which makes it tasty - else use a mixie and grind into a coarse paste, mixing occasionally while sprinkling little water.
Mix with rice and ghee and ensoyyy! :)

Thanks to Mrs. S. Mallika Badrinath...

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