Cheera – Chakka Kuru Avial (Spinach – Jack Seed Avial)

Ingredients for Cheera – Chakka Kuru Avial (Spinach – Jack Seed Avial):

1. Spinach chopped fine – ½ kg

2. Jack seed – 6

3. Snake gourd – 25 gm

4. Cucumber – 25 gm

5. Green mango chopped lengthwise – ¼ cup

6. Salt and turmeric powder – As needed

7. Coconut scrapped – 2 cups

    Cumin seeds – ¼ small spoon

    Shallots – 3

    Chilli powder – 1 small spoon

8. Coconut oil – 1 big spoon

How to prepare Cheera – Chakka Kuru Avial (Spinach – Jack Seed Avial)?

1. Wash spinach and chop into fine pieces.

2. Cut snake gourd and cucumber into 1-inch pieces.

3. Clean jack seeds and split each one into 6 parts.

4. Add all these ingredients to a pressure cooker along with sufficient water, salt and turmeric powder and cook it well.

5. Blend once in a mixer, ingredients no: 7and mix it well with cooked vegetables.

6. Boil it well, and pour coconut oil on its top.

7. Put off the flame.

Archive: Vanitha Magazine July 15-31, 2010

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