Potato & Keerai poriyal

Hello all,

Here I am with a recipe post on a combo that I ever tried and tasted for the first time in life.

Ingredients:

1. Potatoes - 3 medium sized
2. Keerai - 1 cup - washed and cut into small pieces
3. Oil for sauteing
4. Dry red chillies - 2
5. Shallots - 8 - cut into small pieces
6. Mustard seeds, Urad dal, Channa dal - 1 tea spoon each for tempering
7. Jeera - 1 teaspoon
8. Turmeric powder - a pinch
9. Salt as per taste

Method of Preparation:

1. Wash the potatoes, boil them, peel off the skin and cut into small cubes
2. Take a pot/ kadai, add oil for tempering. Add the mustard seeds and let it splutter
3. Add the urad dal and channa dal, and let them turn into light brown
4. Add the jeera followed by the dry red chillies after a minute
5. Add the shallots after a minute and saute till they burn transparent.
6. Add the potato cubes now and saute for few minutes.
7. Add the green leaves now and saute for a minute or two. Add the turmeric powder.
8. Add salt as required for taste, stir a little and keep the vessel closed.
9. Water from the green leaves will be sufficient in most cases and you can just splash a spoon of water if required in between.

P.S.:

• Add grated coconut as the final touch before turning the stove off - this step is optional.
• Serve this dish with rice for lunch. This goes well with simple dhal, sambar and rasam with papad.