Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, keerai sadam/ greens rice/ amaranthus rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Keerai Rice/sadam can be made with arai keerai or siru keerai. Except for cleaning the greens, this recipe is a breeze to make. I made keerai sadam, beetroot channa curry, arbi tomato curry and masala chaas for lunch.
Keerai sadam/ Greens Rice/ Amaranthus Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Keerai sadam/ Greens Rice/ Amaranthus Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have keerai sadam/ greens rice/ amaranthus rice using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Keerai sadam/ Greens Rice/ Amaranthus Rice:
- Get 2 cups Rice
- Prepare 1 cup Toor dal
- Get 1 Onion
- Make ready 1 Tomato
- Make ready 2 Green chillies
- Make ready 6 Garlic cloves
- Take 1 bunch Keerai as per your choice can use (arai keerai, palak, siru keerai and paruppu keerai)
- Take 1 small goli Tamarind (take the extract)
- Prepare 1 tsp Oil
- Prepare 8 cups Water (6 cups for rice and 2 cups for dal)
- Make ready For tempering
- Get 2 tsp ghee / oil
- Take 1/2 tsp mustard,
- Take 1/2 tsp urad dal
- Prepare 1/2 tsp fenugreek
- Take 1/2 tsp jeera
- Take pinch asafodetida
- Prepare 2 red chillies
Wash greens (keerai) and chop it finely. Slit the green chillies into two. The greens (Keerai) will get cooked in its own water content. Stir fry till all the water content in the Keerai is absorbed.
Instructions to make Keerai sadam/ Greens Rice/ Amaranthus Rice:
- Add all the above ingredients in a pressure cooker as per the order given above do not fry them jus add raw and add water and bring it to a boil so that tamarind raw smell goes away and then cover the pressure cooker put on high flame once the pressure comes put on the weight and simmer the flame for 10 mintues and switch off the stove and let the pressure release on it's own.
- Add ghee / oil or fully ghee Add mustard, urad dal, fenugreek, jeera, asafodetida and red chillies
- Note: I have used normal ponni rice I use 3 cups of water for cooking rice so according water needs to be adjusted and I have used arai keerai.
- Soak rice and dal together in water for 30 minutes.
Add the cooked rice and mix well. Green leaves are always rich in iron, folic acid and calcium. This green leafy vegetable is known as pasalai keerai in tamil. Spinach Rice is a easy quick Lunch box recipe that can be prepared with left over rice. I have used basmati rice for Spinach Rice preparation.
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