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Pasi Paruppu Keerai Moong Dal with Verdolaga Recipe

August 8, 2013 By Sangeetha Priya 24 Comments

Pasi Paruppu Keerai , recently i found spinach/verdolaga in Indian grocery store (Pic 1 in stepwise pictures below). First time i bought it (bit expensive when compared to other leaves) and searched for its Tamil name in google. It says paruppu keerai, i usually make paruppum keeraiyum dish with palak/spinach and much excited to make it with this new green leaves.

It tasted good moreover i liked the aroma :-). Let a short note about this green leaves before moving in to the recipe.
Commonly known as Purslane/Verdolaga, which may be used fresh as a salad, stir-fried, or cooked as spinach, and because of its mucilaginous quality it is also suitable for soups and stews. This is known as Ma Chi Xian (translated as “horse tooth amaranth”) in traditional Chinese medicine. Purslane leaves are used to treat insect or snake bites on the skin, boils, sores, pain from bee stings, bacillary dysentery, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, postpartum bleeding, and intestinal bleeding. The stems, leaves and flower buds are all edible. In tamil this is called as பருப்புக்கீரை (Paruppu keerai) or கோழிக்கீரை (kolik keerai). I got all these informations from purslane wiki and other sites.

Ingredients

Split Yellow Moong Dhal (Pesara pappu)/Masoor Dhal – 1/2 cup
Verdolaga/Palak Spinach – 1 bunch
Onion – 1 Small
Garlic – 4 Numbers
Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
Pepper Corns – 1tsp
Tomato – Quarter (small size)
Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
Red chilies – 2 Numbers
Sambar/Red Chili powder – 1tsp (Optional)
Turmeric powder – 1/8tsp
Hing/Asafoetida – 1/8tsp
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Salt – to taste
Oil – 2 tsp

Pasi Paruppu Keerai Preparation

  • Cook the dhal with tomato, 1-2 garlic, enough water in pressure cooker for 3 hisses (Pic 2).
  • Can add turmeric powder while cooking but i add while seasoning.
  • Wash the green leaves/spinach thoroughly and chop the leaves and the thin stems (Pic 2).
  • Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seed, cumin seeds and pepper corns.
  • Once it starts spluttering add chopped onion, garlic, turmeric powder, hing/curry leaves and split red chilies.
  • Add the chopped green leaves (Pic 3) and fry for just a couple of minutes (Till it becomes tender).
  • You can sprinkle water and cook in medium flame until the spinach is well cooked.
  • Now add the cooked dhal and salt and mix well.
  • When starts boiling well, remove from heat (Pic 4).
  • Finally you can garnish it with fried vengaya vadagam too.
  • Serve hot with rice and ghee 🙂

Notes

You can enhance taste by adding sambar/red chili powder while cooking the green leaves.
Updated with recent pictures.

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Filed Under: Diabetics Corner, Spinach Varieties, Traditional Kongu Foods, Veg Kuzhambu Varieties Tagged With: Bachelors Cooking, Kuzhambu Varieties, Pressure Cooker Recipes, purslane • Assamese: মালভোগ শাক malbhog xaak • Bengali: নূনিযা সাগ nuniya saag • Gujarati: લૂણી luni • Hindi: घोल ghol, Spinach Varieties, Veg, नोनिया noniya • Kannada: ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗೋಣಿ ಸೊಪ್ಪು dodda goni soppu, लोनिया loniya

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  1. harsha vardhani

    November 12, 2016 at 7:07 am

    Hi Your site is very informative about the receipes try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVPgx3cXNs
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP_lSTxJ5kk

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  2. harsha vardhani

    November 12, 2016 at 7:06 am

    Hi Your site is very informative about the receipes try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVPgx3cXNs

    Reply
  3. Sangeetha M

    August 22, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    delicious n comfort dal..love it with rice…nice clicks dear!

    Reply
  4. jeyashri suresh

    August 20, 2013 at 3:09 am

    Super comforting dal, simple and yummy recipe

    Reply
  5. Maha Gadde

    August 15, 2013 at 3:34 am

    yummy n very healthy dal.
    http://www.mahaslovelyhome.com/2013/08/papaya-honey-smoothiepapaya-dates.html

    Reply
  6. Suja Md

    August 13, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    healthy and delicious is too, I love to have it all the time!!

    Reply
  7. Suja Manoj

    August 13, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    Delicious healthy dal,my family love this,comfort dish

    Reply
  8. Chitz

    August 11, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    Delicious & healthy one. Amma makes this often 🙂

    Reply
  9. Reni

    August 9, 2013 at 2:15 pm

    Very healthy and delicious !

    Reply
  10. S.Menaga

    August 9, 2013 at 1:31 pm

    We missed this healthy keerai,very comforting dal!!

    Reply
  11. Navaneetham Krishnan

    August 9, 2013 at 1:25 pm

    This dhal veg curry is a must for us and this you have shared is so good. Will try out soon for another variety.

    Reply
  12. Ramya Krishnamurthy

    August 9, 2013 at 11:15 am

    delicious and healthy dal akka

    Reply
  13. Sona S

    August 9, 2013 at 5:54 am

    Healthy and delicious dal.

    Reply
  14. Shruti

    August 8, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    Last evening only I was askin my hubby if I can make Dal-Palak in dinner!!! Somehow I didn't cook it… but ur post will make me cook it today or tmrw 🙂

    Reply
  15. Priya Anandakumar

    August 8, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    Very comforting and delicious paruppu keerai. Its been ages after I had that keerai…

    Reply
  16. Swathi Iyer

    August 8, 2013 at 7:43 pm

    Delicious dal with healthy spinach yumm.

    Reply
  17. divya

    August 8, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    Delicious and mouthwatering….

    Reply
  18. Rumana Ambrin

    August 8, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    My fav dal and delicious…

    Reply
  19. Priya Suresh

    August 8, 2013 at 5:40 pm

    Wat a delicious dal, am missing this paruppu keerai here..With a bowl of rice i can enjoy thoroughly this dal.

    Reply
  20. Subha Subramanian

    August 8, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    Simple & Healthy dal…….Like it…….

    x❤x❤
    http://indianveggiesbhojan.blogspot.in/

    Reply
  21. Sahasra Recipes

    August 8, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    Yummy and tasty dal.

    Reply

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