Recipe: Tasty Agathi Keerai Stir fry

Agathi Keerai Stir fry.

You can cook Agathi Keerai Stir fry using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Agathi Keerai Stir fry

1. It's 2 of Agathi Keerai bundles.
2. You need 3 tbsps of toor dal cooked.
3. You need 1/2 cup of coconut grated.
4. Prepare 3 tbsps of oil.
5. You need 1 tsp of mustard seed.
6. Prepare pinch of asafoetida.
7. It's 4 of chillies dry red.
8. You need of salt.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of sugar.
10. Prepare pinch of cooking soda (optional).
11. It's of water.

Agathi Keerai Stir fry step by step

1. De-stem the agathi keerai and roughly chop it. Take a vessel and fill it with water. Put the chopped keerai into the water and rinse it. You will see that the clear water turns brown due to fine sediment present in the keerai. Discard the water and again fill this with fresh water. repeat this step until you see that the water's color does not change. This roughly takes about 30 minutes..
2. Meanwhile cook toor dal and keep it ready. Do not mash the dal. I have cooked toor dal in microwave for 15 minutes in power high..
3. Take a kadaai, keep it on medium heat. Add the oil and splutter the mustard seeds, add a pinch of asafoetida, break the dry red chillies and add it, give this a nice stir..
4. Now add the chopped keeari and mix. Add little salt, keeari cannot absorb too much salt, if you add salt like how you add for other dishes then it'll be too salty so add wisely. Sprinkle a tablespoon of sugar, keerai is actually bitter in taste to balance it add sugar. Then sprinkle a pinch of cooking soda, this helps in retaining its color. Now stir this evenly and sprinkle little water, do not add too much water then the keerai will be too soggy..
5. Allow it to cook in medium heat until the keerai absorbs all the water. This should take about 5 minutes..
6. After the water is absorbed, add the cooked toor dal and mix. Then sprinkle coconut over it and finally give it one nice stir..
7. Transfer this to a bowl. This can be mixed with plain rice or it can also be taken as a side dish with curd rice. Or you can just have it directly..