Leaf – Flower Thoran – Nutritious side dish 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 scraped – ½
8. Kanthari Chillies (Bird’s eye chilli – A small type of 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 them well, adding a little water.
2. Blend once, the scraped coconut, chillies, and curry leaves.
3. When the leaf-flower mixture is cooked, add the crushed coconut mixture to it and mix well.
4. Keep it on a low flame until the whole water content is absorbed. Add a small spoon of oil and turn 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.