When amma was visiting me in May this year, she was very smitten with all the green in the wet market here, particularly bok choy. Bok choy, also called Chinese cabbage, is generally steamed or lightly sauteed and eaten with rice. I haven’t cooked with it after making a stir fry with it – Stir Fried Bok Choy Recipe.
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Anyway, we saw fresh bok choy in the market and amma wanted to make Kerala-style dal curry with it. So that’s exactly what we did!
Kerala-Style Dal Curry with Bok Choy
Preparation time:
15 minutes
Cooking time:
10 minutes
Serves 4-6
Recipe source: Amma
Ingredients:
2 bok choy (Chinese cabbage)
½ cup roasted moong dal
¼ cups grated coconut
2 shallots
¼ tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp jeera
4 green chillies
Salt to taste
For tempering:
2 tsp (coconut) oil
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
3-4 shallots (ulli, chinna vengayam), sliced
A few curry leaves
How to Make Dal Curry:
1. Grind coconut with jeera, shallots, and some salt to a fine paste with water.
2. Add the dal, chopped bok choy, green chillies, and coconut mixture to a pressure cooker along with 1 cup water and cook for 2-3 whistles.
3. Heat oil for tempering and add the other ingredients. When the mustard seeds pop and the shallots turn golden, dunk into the cooked dal. Mix well and adjust salt if required.
Tastes fabulous with rice, vatha kuzhambu, chips, and some raw sliced onions (which is kinda weird, I know, but we eat it almost every day with rice at my mom’s place!).
fuckedupigkeit says
March 23, 2013 at 3:51 pmThis recipe just blew my mind! I love it, I made my own version though because I don't have a pressure cooker and I added a bit of coconut too just because I love coconut but honestly I would never have thought of bok choy and lentils together and now I wonder why because they are so perfect together! thanks for this!
StarzzSpace says
February 4, 2013 at 7:59 amCan we use onions instead of shallots? What difference would that make?
Nagalakshmi V says
February 4, 2013 at 8:59 amyes you can. it will be a different flavour that's all.
Chella KS Nathan says
January 4, 2013 at 8:53 amhey nags, i made sambar with bok choy and it came out real well. i did not have moong dal to proceed with your recipe but i will try it the next time i buy. Thank u so much for the push 🙂
Vijitha (Spices and Aroma) says
December 20, 2012 at 7:23 pmI love boy choy and have tried to make pulao like the way we use spinach. Making dhal is so good too. Boy Choy is a local green here and I find using the local produce and tweaking it to our taste buds serves both purposes – taste & sustainability. Have you tried making shrimp curry with boy choy? Do try it. It's yum.
NatureStop says
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Swati Raman Garg says
December 16, 2012 at 11:09 amlove bok choy stir fry with mushrooms.. with dal iam sure it must taste equally good… will remember this combi nags..
manjooo says
December 16, 2012 at 5:46 amlooks so yumm..a must try
Lavanya says
December 15, 2012 at 2:05 pmBok Choy? Really? I have never even thought of this with Dal… and now I wonder why I never did! I shall certainly try it. What did perk me up was the line about the stir fry. Do post that recipe too.
Nagalakshmi V says
December 18, 2012 at 7:24 ami have already posted it. now linked from the post above 🙂
Anonymous says
December 14, 2012 at 10:25 pmLooks good. I am very tempted to make this but have a quick questions. While pressure cooking to we need to add any water?
Nagalakshmi V says
December 18, 2012 at 7:25 amyes please. you can add about 1 cup water. i have edited the post
divya says
December 14, 2012 at 10:00 pmYum Yum ….very tempting
BongMom says
December 14, 2012 at 4:33 pmThe baby bok choys are so good. I put them in dal, in mixed vegetable dish, in omlette, almost everything when I buy a bunch. Ammas are the best 🙂
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Aishwarya says
December 14, 2012 at 3:20 pmWow. Was looking for an Indian bok choy recipe. This looks yummy. D you use the stems? Or only the leaves?
Nagalakshmi V says
December 18, 2012 at 7:26 ami use the entire thing since anyways we are pressure cooking.
Priya R says
December 14, 2012 at 10:01 amcomfort food indeed 🙂 adding coconut must be so good
APARNARAJESHKUMAR says
December 14, 2012 at 5:36 amnever that there is leaves or veggies exists !loved it ! nice version and vatha kuzhambu !OMG ! no words !for the combo !
arundati says
December 14, 2012 at 5:07 amlooks lovely! would never have thought of bok choy dal! i made something very similar with green onions and moong yesterday…must make again to post