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    Murungai Keerai Thoran / Drumstick Leaves with Coconut & Shallots

    December 7, 2011 By Aarthi 21 Comments

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    A awesome dish which travels straight from the region of kerala into my kitchen. This dish has its unique flavour and taste to it. If you want to make this dish you need some preparation work to go on. First you should remove all the leaves from the branch, yes it need some patience and time. Then wash it well so that there is now yucky things on the leaves..After all this you can get ready for the cooking. I have my lovable mom who made all these hardwork and gave me those awesome leaves to cook..Lucky me..

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    When we were kids amma makes this for us often, since we had a drumstick tree in front of our house..She make this thoran and put it over hot steaming rice which came right from the cooker along with some homemade ghee drizzled on top..YUM YUM..It tasted like heaven..
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    Last week I made this thoran along with Brinjal pulikulambu and Sepankilangu roast masala( recipe soon)..And it was a perfect lunch for us..Hope you like this recipe and let me know how it turned out.
    Ingrediants:
    Drumstick Leaves – 3 cups
    Sambar Onions / Chinna Ulli / Shallots – 5 sliced finely
    Mustard Seeds / Kaduku- 1 tsp
    Coconut Oil- 1 tblspn
    Curry leaves – 1 spring
    Salt to taste
    To Grind:
    Coconut-1 cup
    Dry Red Chilli – 2 or to taste
    Garlic – 5 pods
    Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi-1 tsp
    Sambar Onion / Chinna Ulli / Shallots – 3
    Method:
    Grind all the ingrediants given for grinding to a slightly coarse paste without adding  any water.Set this aside for a moment.
    Heat  oil in a kadai. Add in mustard seeds, shallots, curry leaves and fry for 1 min.
    Now add in drumstick leaves and sauté for 10 mins.Season with salt and mix well.
    Now add the pureed coconut mixture to this and mix everything together.
    Let it simmer for 5-10 mins while you stir inbetween. Let the flavours get all merged together.
    Now remove it from heat and serve with rice..

    Pictorial:
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    Take all your ingrediants
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    Drumstick leaves all prepared and ready to go
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    take your masala ingrediants in a blender
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    crush it into a rough puree
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    heat oil in a kadai
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    add mustard seeds
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    add curry leaves in
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    now add shallots
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    fry for few minutes
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    add drumstick leaves in
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    and saute for few minutes
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    add salt in this
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    and mix well
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    cook this for few more minutes untill you gets a lovely aroma
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    add the coconut masala in
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    and cook for few more minutes
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    serve
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    a close up look
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    yummy with rice and some ghee
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    1. Nalini's Kitchen

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      healthy and delicious recipe,its been years since I had, mouthwatering recipe and craving for it after seeing the picture.I can imagine how tasty it would be from the picture.

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    2. Francesca

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      Wonderful dish! And I love the step by step instructions. All the best from Rome, Italy!

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    3. [email protected] Journal

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      This sounds interesting! I've never heard of drumstick leaves before. Wonder how its taste like.

      BTW please come to my site and join a Christmas giveaway ~ good luck 🙂

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    4. faseela

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      awesome n healthy thoran

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    5. Chitra

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      this is one dish i truely miss here ...i love this murunka keerai thoran...it tastes so different more tasty from other greens we use...

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    6. Federica

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      che meraviglia questa ricetta!!è sempre un piacere passare nel tuo blog!baci

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    7. Hamaree Rasoi

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      Thoran looks so delicious and healthy.

      Deepa
      Hamaree Rasoi

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    8. Pushpa

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      Lovely greens,Yum!!

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    9. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal

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      looks delicious and healthy.

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    10. Suja

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      Healthy and yummy thoran..love it

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    11. Madhavi

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      New for me but this thoran looks awesome!!!

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    12. Daksha

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      I learn this type of curry with my friend. it's very tasty and yummy with phulka. Thanks for sharing this follow u ....(vegetarian cooking diarys (daksha) ).

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    13. Shanthi

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      Healthy and yummy curry

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    14. Kalpana Sareesh

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      i love this so much one of my fav greens..

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    15. Ganga Sreekanth

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      soooooooo delicious..

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    16. Priya

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      Wat a healthy and inviting thoran..

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    17. Kaveri

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      Yummy thoran. Nice pics.

      Herbs & Flowers: Spring Onions

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    18. divya

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      Drooling here......awesome recipe

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    19. Tina

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      Healthy and delicious thoran...

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    20. Gayu

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      Thank you for stopping by and leaving wonderful comments...The thoran looks yummy and one of my all time favorites..Great step-wise pictures..

      Kitchen - The Chef's Paradise

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    21. Padhu

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      Dear Aarthi
      Every week end I make drumstick leaves curry my way which I love very much .Today I tried your version and loved it very much.Thanks for the nice recipe. I add a handful of thinly chopped cabbage to this curry.Try it

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