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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..

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..
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:
Take all your ingrediants
Drumstick leaves all prepared and ready to go
take your masala ingrediants in a blender
crush it into a rough puree
heat oil in a kadai
add mustard seeds
add curry leaves in
now add shallots
fry for few minutes
add drumstick leaves in
and saute for few minutes
add salt in this
and mix well
cook this for few more minutes untill you gets a lovely aroma
add the coconut masala in
and cook for few more minutes
serve
a close up look
yummy with rice and some ghee
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Filed Under: Coconut, Drumstick Leaves, Garlic, Kerala, Post Pregnancy Food, Recent Recipes, Red Chilli, Side Dishes, Thoran

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Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Nalini's Kitchen

    December 7, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    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

    December 7, 2011 at 3:14 pm

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

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  3. [email protected] Journal

    December 7, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    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

    December 7, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    awesome n healthy thoran

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  5. Chitra

    December 7, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    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

    December 7, 2011 at 4:50 pm

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

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  7. Hamaree Rasoi

    December 7, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    Thoran looks so delicious and healthy.

    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  8. Pushpa

    December 7, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    Lovely greens,Yum!!

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  9. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal

    December 7, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    looks delicious and healthy.

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  10. Suja

    December 7, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    Healthy and yummy thoran..love it

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  11. Madhavi

    December 7, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    New for me but this thoran looks awesome!!!

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  12. Daksha

    December 8, 2011 at 2:14 am

    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

    December 8, 2011 at 3:54 am

    Healthy and yummy curry

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  14. Kalpana Sareesh

    December 8, 2011 at 4:54 am

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

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  15. Ganga Sreekanth

    December 8, 2011 at 5:37 am

    soooooooo delicious..

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  16. Priya

    December 8, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Wat a healthy and inviting thoran..

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  17. Kaveri

    December 8, 2011 at 10:17 am

    Yummy thoran. Nice pics.

    Herbs & Flowers: Spring Onions

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  18. divya

    December 8, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    Drooling here……awesome recipe

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  19. Tina

    December 9, 2011 at 3:11 am

    Healthy and delicious thoran…

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  20. Gayu

    December 9, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    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

    December 11, 2011 at 8:44 am

    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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