Keerai Kulambu recipe | Side dish recipes | Super Suvai Tamil

In this article, I want to share the Tasty and healthy Keerai Kulambu recipe with you. This recipe is very simple and it will be a great side dish for your lunch meal importantly it is highly nutritious. You can do this in Keerai Kulambu in a very few steps. 

I gave the ingredients required for this Keerai Kulambu recipe below. You can serve 4 people with these quantities. The preparation time and cooking time needed is just 35 minutes. 

Ingredients required for Keerai Kulambu:

• Siru Keerai (Greens)- one bunch
• Split Gram lentil(Kadalai Paruppu)- half cup
• Small lentils (Siru Paruppu)- half cup
• Shallots (Chinna Vengayam)- 5 to 6 nos
• Tomato (Thakkali)- three nos
• Turmeric powder (Manjal Thool)- half spoon
• Garlic Cloves(Poondu)- 4 cloves
• Asafoetida (Perungayam)- quarter spoon
• Green chili (Pachai Milagai)- 2 nos
• Water (Thannir in Tamil)- As required

For tempering the Keerai Kulambu:

• Oil (Ennai)- 3 spoons
• Mustard seeds (Kadugu)- half spoon
• Urad dal (Ulutham Paruppu)- half spoon
• Red Chili (Sigappu Milagai)- 1 no
• Curry leaves (Karuvepillai Ilai)- One Strand

Keerai Kulambu recipe cooking Method:

1. Water the chopped Siru Keerai three times in water.
2. Heat the wide pan, add split gram lentil and small lentils in the pan and roast it till its raw smell goes away.
3. Add two cups of water to the pressure cooker, put the roasted lentils in the pressure cooker.
4. Add turmeric powder, skin peeled shallots, tomatoes, garlic, Asafoetida, Green chilies, and cleaned Siru Keerai in the pressure cooker.
5. Finally, add one spoon of oil over it, this oil will prevent the spreading of lentils over the pressure cooker.
6. Close the pressure cooker lid and wait for one cooker sound.
7. Take the Keerai from the cooker and mash it using your manual grinder or grind it using a blender. Add some tamarind and salt to it and grind it well.
8. For tempering, heat an adequate amount of oil in the pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal, red chilies to it.
9. Roast it in oil and add smashed garlic to the temperings.
10. Now spread the temperings over the Siru Keerai Kulambu and serve it with rice or chapati.