Indian Vegetarian Recipes

Palak (Spinach) Puri

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Palak (Spinach) Puri

Palak (Spinach) Puri is a whole wheat fried bread made with many different flavors. Adding the spinach with a few spices makes the Puri very yummy and healthy. These puris can be served with any meal and add a nice green color to any menu. You can also serve them with afternoon tea or even pack them up for a lunch box meal.

Ingredients

1
cup
whole wheat flour
1/4
cup
besan
(gram flour)
2
cup
spinach leaves
(remove all the stems)
1
green chili
1/2
inch
ginger
1/2
tsp
salt
1/2
tsp
cumin seeds
1/8
tsp
asafetida
(hing)
1
Tbsp
oil

Method

Blend the spinach, ginger and green chili with about 1/4 cup of water, use more if needed.
In a bowl mix with whole wheat flour all the ingredient except spinach besan, cumin seeds, asafetida, salt, and oil, mix it well.
Add the spinach paste to the flour mix and form into a firm and pliable dough add water as needed. Grease your palm and knead the dough. Cover the dough and let it sit for 10 minutes or more.
Divide the dough into 12 equal parts and roll them into smooth balls. Lightly oil the surface you want to roll the puries. Roll them into about six-inch circle.
Heat at least one inch of oil in a frying pan over medium high heat. To check if oil is ready drop a small piece of dough into the oil this should come up without changing the color.
Place one puri at a time in the frying pan and press it with a skimmer. The puris should puff up slowly. Turn the puris over. Puries should be light golden color both sides.
Take the puris out and place them on paper towels to absorb the excess oil. Repeat the process for remaining puries.

Indian Vegetarian Recipes

Vethalai Thogayal recipe

Vethalai thogayal recipe | Betel leaves, paan leaves thogayal – Easy to make Vethalai chutney or thogayal recipe

Vethalai | paan leaves | Betel leaves – aids in digestion and helps to reduce cold and cough. Usually, Paan is served at Indian weddings at the end of the meal. As paan leaves | vethalai aids in digestion it is always given at the end of meals. Also, it is a great source of calcium and Vitamin C paan leaves | vethalai is given to lactating mothers.

We use Vethalai |paan leaves in all our poojas. Usually after the pooja, vethali gets wasted and many of us don’t know what to do with that. I have already posted Vethalai rasam and Vethalai poondu sadam recipe in Jeyashris kitchen. On my recent trip, I learned this recipe from my mami, who is a great cook. I have learned a lot of recipes from her. She shared a few recipe on this trip and I have noted them too. I will share the recipes on Jeyashris Kitchen.

Coming to this Vethalai thogayal, it is a simple recipe with onion and garlic. You can skip onion and garlic if you do not wish to add. Check out the ‘Notes’ section for the variation.

Check out our other paan recipes, Paan ladoo, paan phirni, paan ice cream.

Vethalai thogayal recipe

Betel leaves | paan leaves chutney recipe

Course Condiment

Cuisine South Indian

Keyword paan leaves,, Thogayal recipes

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 15

Total Time 30

Author Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

10 vethalai | paan leaves | betel leaves
2 tbsp curry leaves
1 tbsp urad dal
1 tbsp chana dal
4-5 red chili
A small piece of tamarind
2 tbsp coconut
Salt as needed
Little water to grind
12 small onion
8 garlic cloves
1 tbsp sesame oil

Instructions

Wash and finely chop the vethalai | paan leaves. Take out the top step part.
In a pan add sesame oil, and add small onion and garlic.
Saute till the onions turn slightly golden brown.
Take out and keep aside.
In the same pan add urad dal, chana dal, red chili and a small piece of tamarind.
Saute in a medium flame till the dal turns golden brown.
Add curry leaves and finely chopped vethalai | paan leaves.
Saute for a minute and switch off.
Add 2 tbsp coconut and salt.
Allow everything to cool.
Grind into a slighty coarse paste.
Add little water while grinding.
Vethalai thogayal ready.