Keerai molagootal is a traditional palakkad special dish South Indian rice accompaniment/ side dish prepared with spinach and dal. Freshly ground spice-paste gives a nice flavor to the keerai kootu. Quick one-pot spinach dal curry which can be prepared with Instant pot/ Pressure cooker.
Keerai kootu and Keerai thengai curry are the dishes my Amma makes with spinach. Growing up I was not a big fan of spinach but because of its healthy benefits she somehow managed to make eat it. Coconut flavor in spinach dishes made me like this iron rich vegetable. Keerai pappu become my favorite in recent years.
Amma makes a thick kootu and we take it as a side dish for Rasam/ Milagu Kuzhambu/ Vethakuzhambu. Now a days I started making it in a gravy-like consistency and we mix it with rice use it as a rice accompaniment.
Keerai Molagootal is prepared with channa dal/ moong dal with some vegetable or combination of veggies. Freshly roasted and ground paste makes kootu super delicious. Usually I use green chilli for kootu like Cabbage kootu and Pumpkin kootu, and red chilli for Poricha kootu and Keerai Milagu kootu.
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