Name: Keerai Kadayal Recipe | Spinach Masiyal Recipe | Keerai Masiyal Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
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)

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Keerai Masiyal ( Kadayal) Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Healthy keerai kadayal or spinach masiyal made with spinach, garlic and chillies.

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2. Keerai Kadayal Recipe | Spinach Masiyal Recipe | Keerai Masiyal Recipe

3. Keerai Kadayal Recipe Step by Step

4. Andhra Keerai Masiyal Recipe

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.

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

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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Keerai Kadayal Recipe Step by Step

Take all your ingredients

Take some water in the bottom of a heavy pan

add garlic and chillies

add in chopped spinach

cover and cook for just 5 mins

till the spinach has wilted and cooked

now take this in a blender

add salt to it

and puree it

it should be smooth puree

transfer that to the pan

Now make the tempering..Heat ghee in a pan

add shallots to it

and fry till golden brown

pour that in

and mix well

Serve

Andhra Keerai Masiyal Recipe

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. So here you go to the recipe.

Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking Time : 15 to 20 mins
Serves - 4 to 5

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

For Frying:

Oil - 1 tsp
Dry Red Chilli - 2
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
Garlic - 6 cloves

For Seasoning:

Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp

How to Make Andhra Keerai Masiyal

Take spinach, tomatoes and green chilli in a pan. Add some water. Cover and cook this for 10 mins till done.
Now heat oil and fry all the ingredients given for frying till light golden.
Pour this over the spinach and mix well. Add some salt.
Once this cools slightly add this to blender and make into a puree.
Pour this back into the same pan. Heat oil and crackle in mustard and cumin seeds.
Pour this over the spinach and mix well.
Serve with rice.

Step by Step

Take all your ingredients

Take spinach in a pan

Add in tomatoes

Add a green chilli

Pour in some water

Put this on the stove

Cover and cook

Cook till the spinach is tender

Remove it off the heat

Now heat some oil

Add in cumin seeds

Throw in garlic and dry chilli

Fry this for few mins

Fry till golden

Add this to spinach

Mix well

Add some salt

Mix well

Take this in a blender

Make into a puree

Transfer this to the pan

Make tempering

Add in mustard and cumin seeds

Fry for a min

Pour this over the spinach

mix well

All done

Serve

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Archana Potdar

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This looks simple but tasty . Thanks

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Premalatha Aravindhan

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wow inviting recipe,luks very tempting...

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Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj

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Very yummy masiyal... i too love keerai masiyal but mom ll prepare different...
VIRUNTHU UNNA VAANGA

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VineelaSiva

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Nice puree it goes nice with hot rice.

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Sharmilee! :)

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Healthy one, apt combo with rice

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Priya

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Simply love this masiyal..

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Shabitha Karthikeyan

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Love greens anytime. Nicely done !!

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Follow foodie

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Simple and Yum!
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Priya Sreeram

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good one; made a different version of it yesterday

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Rosy BM

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¡Qué interesante receta!
¡Una manera rica y diferente de comer espinacas!
Besos y feliz fin de semana.
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tamilsasikitchen

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Delicious and healthy greens...

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Chitra

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i make this masiyal by grinding the cooked keerai with raw garlic. ur method seems good, will try very soon and let u knonw 🙂

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Amala Christi Joseph

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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?

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Aarthi

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@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.

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- raja
  
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  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.
  
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Anonymous

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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.. 🙂

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Anonymous

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taste well with murunggakai avial and brinjal tomato masiyal

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Tawee

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Hi is there any way to find out the spinach has cooked enough ?

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