Cheera Thoran / Stir Fried Spinach Recipe
Before one more person asks me for the recipe of this pic I featured in my taking food pictures on Portrait mode, I am going to post it.
Cheera thoran is a very simple and nutritious recipe, perfect for a weeknight if you are looking for a side-dish for your dal chawal, or sambar rice, or even curd rice. I love spinach and considering the abundance of spinach and most other greens in Singapore, this is a real treat for us!
Cheera Thoran Recipe
Serves 2 to 4
Ingredients:
5 cups tightly packed chopped spinach leaves (a bunch)
1 cup grated coconut
4 shallots (or half of an onion)
2-4 green chillies
A pinch of turmeric powder
1/2 tsp jeera
2 tsp oil (I always use coconut oil for thoran)
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
A few curry leaves (optional)
1 dry red chilly, torn into half
Salt to taste
How I Made It:
1. Clean and chop the spinach fine. Drain well and set aside.
2. Grind together - coconut, shallots, green chillies, jeera and turmeric. If you don't have a mixie, use a pestle and mortar to bring these ingredients together. If you don't have that, then just finely chop the shallots and green chillies and mix well with the rest.
3. Heat the oil in a pan and thrown in the mustard seeds. When they pop, add the curry leaves and the halved red chilly. Fry for 10 seconds and add the coconut mixture. Fry that for 30 seconds and add the chopped spinach with some salt.
4. The spinach will give out water so cook well until all the water evaporates and you have a dry dish (about 5-7 mins)
Serve with rice and dal, rice and sambar or rice and moru curry.
Cheera thoran is a very simple and nutritious recipe, perfect for a weeknight if you are looking for a side-dish for your dal chawal, or sambar rice, or even curd rice. I love spinach and considering the abundance of spinach and most other greens in Singapore, this is a real treat for us!
Cheera Thoran Recipe
Serves 2 to 4
Ingredients:
5 cups tightly packed chopped spinach leaves (a bunch)
1 cup grated coconut
4 shallots (or half of an onion)
2-4 green chillies
A pinch of turmeric powder
1/2 tsp jeera
2 tsp oil (I always use coconut oil for thoran)
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
A few curry leaves (optional)
1 dry red chilly, torn into half
Salt to taste
How I Made It:
1. Clean and chop the spinach fine. Drain well and set aside.
2. Grind together - coconut, shallots, green chillies, jeera and turmeric. If you don't have a mixie, use a pestle and mortar to bring these ingredients together. If you don't have that, then just finely chop the shallots and green chillies and mix well with the rest.
3. Heat the oil in a pan and thrown in the mustard seeds. When they pop, add the curry leaves and the halved red chilly. Fry for 10 seconds and add the coconut mixture. Fry that for 30 seconds and add the chopped spinach with some salt.
4. The spinach will give out water so cook well until all the water evaporates and you have a dry dish (about 5-7 mins)
Serve with rice and dal, rice and sambar or rice and moru curry.

















My fav thoran..nice shot...
ReplyDeleteLooks and and nice click...
ReplyDeleteThat looks great. I have to try it!
ReplyDeleteSimply superb..... just love the click and the colour of thoran.......
ReplyDeleteyeah as others , I love the click too ..spinach with ground coconut mixture is pretty new to me
ReplyDeleteThat is a great looking thoran dear. Love your pictures, I will have to try portrait mode pictures :)
ReplyDeleteLooks so good..and you say it works with all greens? Great recipe!
ReplyDeletenever tried stir fries with green..except for chundal(that is spinach with mung dal)..this one looks yumm..
ReplyDeletecheera thoran is always my fav.. u have done is so perfectly and love the wonderful clicks too.
ReplyDeleteI love both the recipe and the pictures very much :)
ReplyDeletehi nags, healthy and delicious thoran....nice click too. im following u da.
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ReplyDeleteLovely thoran .. quite ideal to go with a daily meal .. rice...
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Nice thoran with nice clicks dear...keep rocking..
ReplyDeletewonderful thoran nags..1st time to your fabulous space... do visit my site at your convenience...following you..
ReplyDeletemy family's favorite thoran..i add some urad dal at the time of tempering to give it an xtra crunch!also if you mix it with rice,its spinach rice..btw...is that thoran resting on your couch? ;)..good click!
ReplyDeleteYes, that's my couch :)
ReplyDeleteI am loving this dish. I could make this with the amaranth too. But without the coconut oil :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is very new recipe, Sounds fab! Great Click Nags! :D
ReplyDeleteI will have to try portrait mode pictures :)
ReplyDeleteI've already reviewed this recipe, but it's become such a favourite of mine that I had to..
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely delicious! The sauce is good, but is made excellent with 1 tbsp honey. It tastes like the "brown sauce" you get at a Chinese restaurant, only sweeter and tastier. The ingredients come together really nicely to make this very enjoyable! Plus, I added peanuts for decoration and crunch.
ReplyDeleteI think Cheera is very similar to amaranth… Normally in south-indian cooking we use more of these greens than palak, and amaranth is just one of them.
ReplyDeleteI was pleasantly surprised with the combination of flavors in this recipe. It tastes like a salad you might order at Applebee's, but healthier. I added honey to the "sauce" for sweetness and poured extra sauce over the finished salad as a dressing. Delicious and VERY FAST and EASY!
ReplyDeletethat's such a lovely idea! thanks for trying :)
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I found so many entertaining stuff in your blog, especially its discussion. From the tons of comments on your posts, I guess I am not the only one having all the leisure here!
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Ah! Great post. It tastes like the "brown sauce" you get at a Chinese restaurant, only sweeter and tastier. The ingredients come together really nicely to make this very enjoyable!
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wow I'm feeling hungry.My fav thoran. I think something is new in this recipe.
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ReplyDeleteIt should be delicious as it look like so I am impressed with!
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ReplyDeletei have tried this recipe and my wife has liked the surprise dish. thanks for sharing it.
I am going to try cheera thoran, surely!!
ReplyDeleteLovely recipe..Keep up the good work!
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