Keerai kuzhambu

Ingredients :

• Mula keerai - 1 small bunch
• Drumstick leaves - a handful
• Cooking soda - a pinch
• Toovar dal - 1 cup
• Tamarind - lemon size [ extract the pulp ]
• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2 sp
• Rice flour - 1 tsp
• Jaggery - 1 sp
• Green chillies - 2 to 3

Fry and powder :

• Oil - 1 tsp
• Coriander seeds - 2 tsp
• Channa dal - 1 tsp
• Urad dal - 1 tsp
• Red chillies - 5to 6
• Grated fresh coconut - 1 / 2 cup

For seasoning :

• Coconut oil - 2 tsp
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Dry red chillies - 1 [ broken ]

Method :

Wash and pressure cook toovar dal adding just enough water and turmeric powder. Then wash the mulai keerai, drumstick leaves in salt water and cut keerai into bits [ discarding the roots ]. Put green chillies, keerai, a pinch of cooking soda and boil for 5 mints. Mash well and add the tamarind pulp, salt, and turmeric powder and boil well.  Then mix the cooked toovar dal. In one tspn oil fry the ingredients given for the masala till channa dal, urad dal turns into golden colour. Then powder it coarsely and add it to the boiling mixture. Then add rice flour [ mixed with water ], jaggery, salt. Boiled in low flame for 5 mints. Remove from the gas. Season with 1 tspn mustard seeds, 1 dry red chilli, in  coconut oil and add it to the gravy.