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Cheera Thoran | Keerai Poriyal | Keerai Poriyal Recipe

December 1, 2015 43 Comments

Keerai Poriyal is an easy and healthy Sough Indian recipe with spinach (keerai in tamil and cheera in malayalam) with coconut. It’s easy to preprare keerai poriyal if you have all the right ingredients in hand. 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 | Keerai Poriyal | Keerai Poriyal Recipe

Cheera thoran or Keerai Poriyal 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 (Keerai Poriyal)
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)

Cheera Thoran | Keerai Poriyal | Keerai Poriyal Recipe

Serve keerai poriyal with rice and dal, rice and sambar or rice and moru curry.

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By nags Filed Under: Dry Vegetarian Side Dishes, Kerala Recipes, Spinach (Palak) Recipes, Thoran Recipes, Uncategorized

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  1. Soumya

    November 14, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    Just made this, with a local variety of greens called Ponnanganni.. so delicious! My late grandmother used to make something like this – I lost her when I’d only just developed an interest in cooking, and now I think a whole treasure recipes is lost with her. But eating this today reminded me of her so much. Thank you!

    Reply
    • nags

      November 17, 2017 at 11:44 am

      what a lovely thing to hear. i feel the same about my grandmom too..

      Reply
  2. Anjali Singh

    November 3, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    I never knew taht spinach can be cooked with coconut…great idea..

    Reply
  3. Neets

    June 13, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    This looks great Nags!! I'll be buying sum spinach this week n trying this out. Will combine it with ure kara kuzhambu!! Shall let u know how it turns out! Cant wait!!

    Reply
  4. Anonymous

    April 8, 2012 at 10:55 am

    Lovely recipe..Keep up the good work!

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  5. glorious pakistan

    December 21, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    I am going to try cheera thoran, surely!!

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  6. SocietyM

    June 2, 2011 at 7:05 pm

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    i have tried this recipe and my wife has liked the surprise dish. thanks for sharing it.

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  7. keerthi

    April 19, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    Ok how's this pronounced? wanna wow thatha thathi 😉

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    March 24, 2011 at 4:54 pm

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    March 1, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    wow I'm feeling hungry.My fav thoran. I think something is new in this recipe.

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    February 14, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    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!
    Thanks

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  17. Nags

    January 3, 2011 at 12:51 am

    Thanks Jany, glad to have you around too, and hope you like the recipes 🙂

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    January 2, 2011 at 9:17 pm

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  19. Nags

    November 4, 2010 at 5:49 am

    that's such a lovely idea! thanks for trying 🙂

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  20. Loopbaanadvies

    November 4, 2010 at 5:31 am

    I 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!

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    October 14, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    I 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.

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    October 9, 2010 at 4:51 pm

    This 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.

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    September 23, 2010 at 6:53 pm

    I've already reviewed this recipe, but it's become such a favourite of mine that I had to..

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  24. Mariah

    August 23, 2010 at 5:59 am

    I will have to try portrait mode pictures 🙂

    Reply
  25. Ananda Rajashekar

    August 15, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    This is very new recipe, Sounds fab! Great Click Nags! 😀

    Reply
  26. Soma

    August 13, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    I am loving this dish. I could make this with the amaranth too. But without the coconut oil 🙂

    Reply
  27. Anonymous

    August 11, 2010 at 4:33 am

    my 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!

    Reply
  28. srividhya Ravikumar

    August 11, 2010 at 4:16 am

    wonderful thoran nags..1st time to your fabulous space… do visit my site at your convenience…following you..

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  29. Nags

    August 11, 2010 at 5:32 am

    Yes, that's my couch 🙂

    Reply
  30. Sadhana

    August 10, 2010 at 5:45 pm

    Nice thoran with nice clicks dear…keep rocking..

    Reply
  31. Sandhya Hariharan

    August 10, 2010 at 8:58 am

    hi nags…
    Lovely thoran .. quite ideal to go with a daily meal .. rice…
    Been here a couple of times…
    following u from now on 🙂

    Do sneak a peek at my space when time permits.

    Cheers
    Sandhya
    (http://www.sandhyas-kitchen.blogspot.com)

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  32. Rekha shoban

    August 10, 2010 at 7:44 am

    hi nags, healthy and delicious thoran….nice click too. im following u da.

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  33. Suhaina

    August 10, 2010 at 2:29 am

    cheera thoran is always my fav.. u have done is so perfectly and love the wonderful clicks too.

    Reply
  34. delhibelle

    August 9, 2010 at 11:34 pm

    Looks so good..and you say it works with all greens? Great recipe!

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  35. RAKS KITCHEN

    August 10, 2010 at 5:43 am

    I love both the recipe and the pictures very much 🙂

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  36. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal

    August 9, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    That is a great looking thoran dear. Love your pictures, I will have to try portrait mode pictures 🙂

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  37. sowmya's creative saga

    August 10, 2010 at 1:44 am

    never tried stir fries with green..except for chundal(that is spinach with mung dal)..this one looks yumm..

    Reply
  38. Pavithra Srihari

    August 9, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    yeah as others , I love the click too ..spinach with ground coconut mixture is pretty new to me

    Reply
  39. Akila

    August 9, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    Simply superb….. just love the click and the colour of thoran…….

    Reply
  40. Deepika V.

    August 9, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    That looks great. I have to try it!

    Reply
  41. Priti

    August 9, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    Looks and and nice click…

    Reply
  42. Vrinda

    August 9, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    My fav thoran..nice shot…

    Reply

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