Spinach Pulikari Recipe with step by step pictures. Delicious dish made with spinach and coconut masala. Typical Nagercoil recipe which can be served for lunch.
Spinach Pulikari Recipe
Amma makes this kulambu often. She makes this with spinach and their stalks too which turns out so healthy. The stalks of the spinach have so much flavour In them which makes this gravy so tasty. If you are using baby spinach, you can make with that too. You can make this curry with any vegetables of your choice.
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How to Make Spinach Pulikari Recipe
- Start by cooking the toor dal in a pressure cooker till it gets mushy. I usually take ½ cup of toor dal along with 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker and pressure cook it for 5 whistles. Switch off the flame and let the pressure go all by itself. Dal Done.
- Grind the ingredients given in the list to a fine paste by adding some water. Set this aside.
- Take spinach and spinach stalk in a kadai. Add water and cook it uncovered for 15 mins.
- Add in cooked dal and ground masala and mixwell. Adjust the water consistency. Add salt and mix well.
- Bring it to a boil and simmer for 10 mins.
- Now make tempering By heating oil and frying some onion vadam in oil. Pour this over the curry and mix well.
- Serve this with rice.
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Spinach Pulikari Recipe
Ingredients
- Spinach – 5 cups chopped finely Amma used Arai Keerai / Amaranth Leaves / Mulaikeerai and used the stalks of them too
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram paruppu – ½ cup
- Salt to taste
For grinding:
- Coconut – 1 cup
- Shallots / Sambar Onion – 3
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
- Chilli powder – 1 tsp or to taste
- Turmeric powder / Manjal podi -1 tsp
- Tamarind – 1 small lime size
For tempering:
- Oil- 1 tblspn
- Onion Vadam / Vadakam – 2 small piece crushed You can find in super market
Instructions
- Start by cooking the toor dal in a pressure cooker till it gets mushy. I usually take ½ cup of toor dal along with 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker and pressure cook it for 5 whistles. Switch off the flame and let the pressure go all by itself. Dal Done.
- Grind the ingrediants given in the list to a fine paste by adding some water. Set this aside.
- Take spinach and spinach stalk in a kadai. Add water and cook it uncovered for 15 mins.
- Add in cooked dal and ground masala and mixwell. Adjust the water consistency. Add salt and mix well.
- Bring it to a boil and simmer for 10 mins.
- Now make tempering By heating oil and frying some onion vadam in oil. Pour this over the curry and mix well.
- Serve this with rice.
Spinach Pulikari Recipe Step by Step Pictures
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| Take your grinding ingredients in a blender |
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| make into a smooth paste |
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| Cook toor dal till mushy |
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| Cook spinach and spinach stalks in water |
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| spinach is cooked |
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| add in dal |
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| ground masala |
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| and mix well |
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| add salt |
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| and mix well |
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| transfer to a bowl |
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| make tempering |
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| fry onion vadam till golden |
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| pour it over the curry |
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| mix well |
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| Serve |
Sharmilee! :)
Sounds iteresting...healthy curry
Sravs
Super comfort dal !!!! Perfect with rotis and rice !!!!!
DD
Lovely recipe aarthi!!!!!new to me, i'm gonna make this now, letz c how it turns!!!
Food, Fun and Life in the Charente
I am a big spinach fan so this sounds fantastic to me. Diane
Kalpana Sareesh
wonderful curry new to me looks delicious
Anonymous
Is this palak keerai?
please tell
Aarthi
@AnonymousIt is Arai Keerai / Amaranth Leaves / Mulaikeerai
Anonymous
Thank you very much aarthi
Katerina
This is such a healthy meal! I love the flavors in it!
Ms
Do you know what,sometimes I use to search the recipe name (usually I search like only your blog)and browse through the Google images and which recipe I likes I would choose to do it..Today I searched and found this recipe and then only realized it is your recipe.lol...you are always a winner😄
Aarthi
thank you glad to hear it.
Sandhya
Hi Aarthi,
My Amma is from Nagercoil (Derisanamcope) and lots of your recipe are similar to our home cooking. This spinach is my favourite and she uses red spinach and buttermilk instead of tamarind. It's divine and I will have it every day without any complaints. Love your blog you're amazing keep the good work going. Thank you for sharing all the wonderful recipes and all the very best.
Kavi A
Im new to ur blog...I appreciate the effort u have taken..I loved the pictures.I have a few doubts..can we have this gravy with adai/dosa?...
Chella
Hi arthi, thank you for this recipe. My family is from nagercoil and i always ask my mom or grandmom for recipe. These days i counter check the recipes with yours just to make sure. You have such an amazing blog and this recipe is sooo hard to find. Thank you.