Kerala Red Spinach Stir Fry
Kerala Red Spinach Stir Fry. Cheera Thoran is made from Red Spinach or Laal Bhaji (Red Spinach is referred as Cheera in Malayalam) along with grated coconut. It is a savoury side dish. This video explains how to make easy cheera/spinach thoran.
The red spinach is more sweeter than green spinach and tastes different. Note: Those who eats egg can change the recipe by adding scrambled egg to the spinach. In Kerala, cheera (a variety of spinach) is grown in the backyards, most popular are the "red cheera" and the "green cheera". You can cook Kerala Red Spinach Stir Fry using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Kerala Red Spinach Stir Fry
- Prepare 1 of big bunch of red spinach.
- You need 5-6 of slit green chillies.
- Prepare 6-7 of big cloves of garlic, sliced.
- You need 10-15 of pearl onions/shallots, peeled.
- It's 1 tsp of mustard.
- Prepare 3 tsp of coconut oil.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
- You need to taste of Salt.
Stir-frying a big bag of spinach has become one of my favorite ways to get greens on the plate these last few weeks, and a few slices of garlic in the mix makes the spinach feel all grown up. Even in the world of fast stir-fries, spinach is a speedy dish. Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky's. Stir fried water spinach is a common Asian vegetable dish of stir-fried water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica).
Kerala Red Spinach Stir Fry instructions
- Heat oil in a kadhai. Add mustard seeds..
- When the mustard seeds pop, add green chillies, garlic and shallots..
- Fry for a few seconds till the garlic starts changing colour..
- Add washed, cleaned and cut spinach leaves..
- Add salt and turmeric powder..
- Mix well and keep stirring till the spinach leaves shrinks in size and starts leaving water. Close and cook on low flame till done..
- Do not add water while cooking as the spinach will take water during the cook..
- Once done, mix everything well and garnish with grated coconut if you prefer..
- Enjoy this Kerala style Cheera Thoran with hot steaming rice and sambar/dal.🔥🍚😋.
It is a popular Asian vegetable dish, commonly found throughout East, South and Southeast Asia; from Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine in China, to Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Singaporean. Red spinach is a bicolored variety that is botanically classified as Spinacia oleracea. It is primarily harvested as a micro green or baby leaf and used to add color in salad mixes, but may be harvested as a fully mature leaf as well. Chinese stir-fry spinach with garlic shows that spinach can hold its own against strong garlic. This simple Chinese-style spinach stir-fry with garlic pairs nicely with steak.