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:
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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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Nalini's Kitchen
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.
Francesca
Wonderful dish! And I love the step by step instructions. All the best from Rome, Italy!
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This sounds interesting! I've never heard of drumstick leaves before. Wonder how its taste like.
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faseela
awesome n healthy thoran
Chitra
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...
Federica
che meraviglia questa ricetta!!è sempre un piacere passare nel tuo blog!baci
Hamaree Rasoi
Thoran looks so delicious and healthy.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Pushpa
Lovely greens,Yum!!
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
looks delicious and healthy.
Suja
Healthy and yummy thoran..love it
Madhavi
New for me but this thoran looks awesome!!!
Daksha
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) ).
Shanthi
Healthy and yummy curry
Kalpana Sareesh
i love this so much one of my fav greens..
Ganga Sreekanth
soooooooo delicious..
Priya
Wat a healthy and inviting thoran..
Kaveri
Yummy thoran. Nice pics.
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divya
Drooling here......awesome recipe
Tina
Healthy and delicious thoran...
Gayu
Thank you for stopping by and leaving wonderful comments...The thoran looks yummy and one of my all time favorites..Great step-wise pictures..
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Padhu
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