Nutritious Thoran from flowers and leaves

Ingredients for nutritious leaf-flower thoran:

1. Pumpkin leaves chopped – ¼ cup
2. Spinach chopped – ¼ cup
3. Tazhuthama leaves – ¼ cup
4. Muringa leaves – ¼ cup
5. Muringa flowers – ¼ cup
6. Pumpkin flowers – ¼ cup
7. Coconut scrapped – ½
8. Kanthari Chillies (Bird’s eye chilli – A small type chilli) – 5
9. Curry leaves – 1 stem
10. Oil – a small spoon

How to prepare nutritious leaf-flower thoran?

1. Mix all leaves and flowers and cook it well adding a little water.
2. Blend once scrapped coconut, chillies and curry leaves.
3. When leaf-flower mixture is cooked, add crushed coconut mixture to it and mix well.
4. Keep it in low flame till whole water content is absorbed. Add a small spoon of oil and put the flame off.
5. A nutritious and delicious thoran is ready to serve. It’s a good side dish for cooked rice.

 

Read a few more pure vegetarian thoran recipes here. Click on the images in the gallery to read.