Healthy Vegan Fenugreek Stir-Fry

Healthy Vegan Fenugreek stir-fry | Vendhaya keerai poriyal.

South Indian Tamilnadu Style Easy and healthy recipe for vendhaya keerai poriyal. Fenugreek stir fry using methi leaves. Iron rich food.

Vendhaya keerai poriyal with rice makes a perfect lunch. This recipe is very basic and quite straight forward and screams SOUTH. My mom cooks this every week as its a good source of iron. The only thing about fenugreek is that it can consume a good half hour to be cleaned. But good things take time. Dont they! What are we waiting for? Lets pump some iron. Shall we.

• 2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon whole urad dhal
• 1 sprig curry leaves
• 2 dried red chillies
• 10 cloves Garlic diced
• 2 cups shallots or 2 red onions , chopped fine
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 100 grams cleaned fenugreek leaves
• 4 tablespoon shredded coconut

1. Clean and wash the fenugreek in water to remove dirt and sand.
2. Heat oil in a saute pan and add mustard seeds and urad dhal. Let it pop.
3. Once the mustard pops, add the curry leaves and red chillies and saute briefly for a few seconds.
4. Add in the chopped garlic, salt, shallots/red onions and fry in a low flame for a good ten minutes until they are slightly brown.
5. Add in the fenugreek leaves and fry till they are wilted and completely dry.
6. Add the coconut and briefly saute for a minute and remove from heat.
7. Serve hot with rice.

• Author: kannamma @kannammacooks.com
• Prep Time: 40 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins
• Category: Stir-Fry
• Cuisine: South Indian

• 2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon whole urad dhal
• 1 sprig curry leaves
• 2 dried red chillies
• 10 cloves Garlic diced
• 2 cups shallots or 2 red onions , chopped fine
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 100 grams cleaned fenugreek leaves
• 4 tablespoon shredded coconut

1. Clean and wash the fenugreek in water to remove dirt and sand.
2. Heat oil in a saute pan and add mustard seeds and urad dhal. Let it pop.
3. Once the mustard pops, add the curry leaves and red chillies and saute briefly for a few seconds.
4. Add in the chopped garlic, salt, shallots/red onions and fry in a low flame for a good ten minutes until they are slightly brown.
5. Add in the fenugreek leaves and fry till they are wilted and completely dry.
6. Add the coconut and briefly saute for a minute and remove from heat.
7. Serve hot with rice.

• Author: kannamma @kannammacooks.com
• Prep Time: 40 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins
• Category: Stir-Fry
• Cuisine: South Indian

Find it online : https://www.kannammacooks.com/healthy-vegan-fenugreek-stir-fry-vendhaya-keerai-poriyal/

Bombay Bataka | Vegan Tamarind, tomato and potato curry.

This Bombay Bataka recipe is from the Prashad cookbook – The UK Bradford Prashad restaurant run by Kaushy Patel and her family. Its one of the best tangy potato curry recipe.

There are some staples in every Indian kitchen and Potatoes got to be there along with the Onion boy and the Tomato girl. I haven’t come across a potato dish that I did not like. Its been raining everyday here in Bangalore and this dish made a perfect Sunday lunch. Ever since I saw Prashad restaurant in Gordon Ramsays show, I was thrilled about an all vegetarian restaurant doing so well in the UK. I got this recipe from their Prashad cookbook. Its a wonderful book with really fantastic recipes. The author Kaushy Patel writes about the recipe which reads like this. “This dish featured on Prashad’s very first menu and is our take on traditional Bombay potatoes. One of my regular customers at the restaurant ordered a portion of this every week for over a year, declaring it to be the best curry she had ever had!” It indeed was the best potato curry.

• 4 medium red-skinned or 1/2 kg baby potatoes
• 25g dried tamarind (from a block)
• 3 cm root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
• 40 ml sunflower oil
• 2 – 4 dried red chillies
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon brown mustard seeds
• ¼ teaspoon asafetida
• 5 tomatoes, finely chopped or blended
• 25g jaggery, cut into thin flakes (or demerara/soft brown sugar)
• 1 teaspoon medium red chilli powder
• 1 tablespoon ground coriander
• 1½ teaspoons turmeric
• 1¼ teaspoons salt
• 2 handfuls of fresh coriander, finely chopped
• ¾ teaspoon garam masala
• Garnish with green chillies and curry leaves

1. Boil the potatoes in their skins for 40 minutes or so, until a knife tip will slide in easily, then peel and cut into 2cm cubes.
2. Soak the dried tamarind in 200ml of boiling water for 10 minutes, then pulp with your fingers and sieve into a small bowl.
3. Crush the ginger using a pestle and mortar (or a blender), to make a fine pulp.
4. Heat the oil in a large pan for a minute over a medium heat and add the dried red chillies, cumin seeds and mustard seeds.
5. When the mustard seeds start to pop, reduce the heat to low and stir in the asafetida, tomatoes and jaggery.
6. Increase the heat to high and stir in the tamarind water, crushed ginger, chilli powder, ground coriander, turmeric, salt, half the fresh coriander. Cover and cook for 10 minutes to bring the spices together and intensify the flavours. Make sure there is very less moisture left in the sauce.
7. Add the garam masala and stir well.
8. Stir in the potatoes gently to avoid breaking them up, then remove the pan from the heat,sprinkle with the remaining chopped coriander.
9. Serve hot with roti or rice.

• Author: Kannamma - Suguna Vinodh
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins
• Category: Side Dish
• Cuisine: Indian