Kerala Cheera Thoran


Ingredients

Red or green Cheera – 4 cups (cleaned and chopped)

Onion sliced – 1 cup (replace with 8-10 sliced shallots)

Fresh Scrapped Coconut – 1 cup or less

Slit green chillies – 2

Dry red chillies – 1

Chilly powder – ½ tsp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt – 1tsp ( to taste)

Curry leaves – few

Urad dal – 1tsp

Mustard seeds – 1tsp

Oil – 2 table spoon

Method:

Heat 2 table spoon oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, urad ,curry leaves and dry red chillies. Add the onions and chillies, sauté till transparent. Add chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt and sauté for a min. Add half cup coconut and sauté for a min Add the chopped cheera/spinach and sauté well, using a flat pan will make cooking easier as it makes the water content in spinach get evaporated faster and cooks quicker.Cook it open for 3-4 minutes until all the watery content of spinach is evaporated and the spinach is cooked as a dry dish. Finally add the remaining half cup and mix and switch off the flame.Hope you like my version of cheera thoran , adding shallots in place of onions increases the medicinal value and taste. I skip usually due to laziness in peeling the skin of read Indian pearl onions or shallots.


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