Keerai Masiyal ( Kadayal) Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Healthy keerai kadayal or spinach masiyal made with spinach, garlic and chillies.
Keerai Masiyal ( Kadayal)
This is another one recipe which is passed to me by my mum..She make this often( at least once a week ), she mixes this with hot steaming rice along with ghee(of course, we add ghee in everything) and put it in our lunch boxes. Now I am following the same tradition and packing this in my hubby's lunch box, luckily he liked it a lot.
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About Keerai Kadayal
When i was pregnant, one of the dish which I ate most of the time is spinach masiyal. My mom made it for me daily, she insisted me to eat it, because it is so healthy and full of iron. But i got bored with this lately. I just want something spicy and with lots of flavour. Hubby dear got me a recipe book which has recipes made with spinach. I found this recipe in that book and tried it immediately. And it was delicious.
Ingredients for Spinach Masiyal
- Spinach - 1 bunch ( I used Arai Keerai) roughly chopped
- Garlic - 4 cloves
- Green Chilli - 2 chopped
- Salt to taste
- Ghee - 3 tblspn
- Shallots / Sambar Onion - 5 chopped finely
How to Make Spinach Masiyal (Stepwise Pictures)
1)Take water in a sauce pan. Add garlic and green chillies in it.
2)Add in the roughly chopped spinach in. Cover with a lid and cook it for 5 mins.
3)Now the spinach is cooked.
4)Now remove them from heat and let them cool down. Take it in a blender.
5)Add salt to taste.
6)and make into a fine puree.
7)Pour that in a bowl.
8)Now heat ghee in a pan and add in the shallots. Fry them till golden brown.
9)Pour this over the spinach puree and mix well.
10)Serve.
Variations
Andhra Keerai Masiyal
Ingredients for Andhra Keerai Masiyal
- Spinach - 3 cups tightly packed ( I used Arai keerai / Amaranth)
- Tomatoes - 2 medium size chopped
- Green Chilli - 1
- Salt to taste
- Oil - 1 tsp
- Dry Red Chilli - 2
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Garlic - 6 cloves
For Tempering
- Oil - 1 tsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
How to Make Andhra Keerai Masiyal (Step by step)
1)Take all your ingredients
2)Take spinach, tomatoes and green chilli in a pan. Add some water. Cover and cook this for 10 mins till done.
3)Now the spinach is cooked.
4)Now heat oil and fry cumin seeds, dry red chillies and garlic till light golden. Pour this over the spinach and mix well.
6)Add some salt.
7)Take this in a blender.
8)Puree coarse.
9)Heat ghee in a pan. Add mustard and cumin and let it sizzle.
10)Pour this over the spinach and mix well.
11)Serve.
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Ingredients
- 1 bunch Spinach I used Arai Keerai roughly chopped
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 2 Green Chilli chopped
- ½ cup Water
- Salt to taste
- For Tempering:
- 1 tbsp Ghee
- 5 Shallots / Sambar Onion chopped finely
Instructions
- Take water in a sauce pan. Add garlic and green chillies in it.
- Add in the roughly chopped spinach in.
- Cover with a lid and cook it for 5 mins.
- Now remove them from heat and let them cool down.
- Take it in a blender and make into a fine puree.
- Pour that in a bowl.
- Now heat ghee in a pan and add in the shallots. Fry them till golden brown.
- Pour this over the spinach puree and mix well.
- Serve with rice and papad.
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Archana Potdar
This looks simple but tasty . Thanks
Premalatha Aravindhan
wow inviting recipe,luks very tempting...
VineelaSiva
Nice puree it goes nice with hot rice.
Sharmilee! :)
Healthy one, apt combo with rice
Priya
Simply love this masiyal..
Shabitha Karthikeyan
Love greens anytime. Nicely done !!
Priya Sreeram
good one; made a different version of it yesterday
Rosy BM
¡Qué interesante receta!
¡Una manera rica y diferente de comer espinacas!
Besos y feliz fin de semana.
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tamilsasikitchen
Delicious and healthy greens...
Chitra
i make this masiyal by grinding the cooked keerai with raw garlic. ur method seems good, will try very soon and let u knonw 🙂
Amala Christi Joseph
I ve heard from both my mother and MIL that the vessel should not be covered when cooking greens. But u ve asked to cover the vessel for 5 mins. Any reason behind it?
Aarthi
@Amala Christi JosephNo there is no special reason. I just feel that covering and cooking the greens make it cook faster. It is just for 5 mins right..So you can cook covered. But if you are going to cook greens any longer than that, then you should not cover the pan, it makes the green lose it colour.
raja
Hi Arti. What i learnt from a chef is, we shouldn't cover the spinach while cooking as while cooking spinach, certain volatile gas comes out and that shouldnt be blocked during cooking.
Anonymous
I cooked this dish.. And it was love at first bite.. Its soo yummy that i ate it all day.. I took it to office and all my friends who tasted it asked for the recipe.. Directed them to your blog and all were surprised to see soo many delicious recipes in your blog.. I also gave my mom the recipe and she too is gonna try it out.. Thanks soo much for such a delicious and healthy recipe.. 🙂
Anonymous
taste well with murunggakai avial and brinjal tomato masiyal
Tawee
Hi is there any way to find out the spinach has cooked enough ?