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
½ teaspoon jeera
2 teaspoon oil (I always use coconut oil for thoran)
¼ teaspoon 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 keerai poriyal with rice and dal, rice and sambar or rice and moru curry.
Suhaina
cheera thoran is always my fav.. u have done is so perfectly and love the wonderful clicks too.
delhibelle
Looks so good..and you say it works with all greens? Great recipe!
RAKS KITCHEN
I love both the recipe and the pictures very much 🙂
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
That is a great looking thoran dear. Love your pictures, I will have to try portrait mode pictures 🙂
sowmya's creative saga
never tried stir fries with green..except for chundal(that is spinach with mung dal)..this one looks yumm..
Pavithra Srihari
yeah as others , I love the click too ..spinach with ground coconut mixture is pretty new to me
Akila
Simply superb..... just love the click and the colour of thoran.......
Deepika V.
That looks great. I have to try it!
Priti
Looks and and nice click...
Vrinda
My fav thoran..nice shot...