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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Amaranth Stalks, Oats & Channadal Stir-fry

Usually after making out keerai masiyal, my mom used to make either kootu or simple stir fries with the tender amaranth stalks...Its quite a routine at our home whenever my mom get those amaranth greens, i got a bunch of this amaranth leaves two days back, after making out some masiyal with amaranth leaves, there were some matured amaranth stalks and i dont want to discard them, finally i pressure cooked those mature chopped stalks with channa dal and prepared this delicious stir fry along with oats, quite a simple stir fry which goes awesome along with rasam or curd rice, everyone at home loved this delicious stir fry and now i wont ever discard those matured amaranth stalks anymore coz i can make more beautiful dishes with those stalks with different combos na...Sending to Akila's DNSW- A..

Amaranth Stalks & Channadal Stir fry

2cups Amaranth matured stalks (chopped finely)
1/2cup Channadal (soaked for 15minutes)
1no Onion (chopped)
1/2tsp Coriander powder
1/2tsp Red chilly powder
3tbsp Rolled oats
2tbsp Coriander leaves (chopped)
1tsp Mustard seeds +Urad dal
Oil
Salt

Pressure cook upto 3 hisses both the finely chopped amaranth matured stalks and soaked channadal with enough water.

Heat enough oil, let crack the mustard seeds and urad dal, add immediately the chopped onions and saute until they turns transculent, meanwhile strain the cooked water from the amaranth stalks and channadal and keep aside..

Add the cooked amaranth stalks and channadal to the onions, saute for few minutes, now add the coriander powder, red chilly powder with enough salt, saute for few minutes.

Now add the strained cooked water as per need to the veggies, cook until the veggies get well cooked.

Finally add the rolled oats, toss gently and cook until the veggies get well cooked along with the oats, add the chopped coriander leaves..

Enjoy as side dish..

33 comments:

  1. looks awesome and healthy ...

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  2. healthy dish with lentils and greens...yummy

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  3. greens and dal, looks too good priya..
    Love
    Kairali sisters

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  4. Priya, how you combine unusual ingredients and make a wonderful looking recipe out of it. I could have never thought of using oats in this. Simply delicious !!!

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  5. Priya using oats in this dal sounds interesting.Daal looks very deicious.We use these matured amaranth stalks for making stew or pulusu.

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  6. luks so delicious and very healthy recipe...

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  7. Priya,

    Delicious dal with amaranth salts, Nice one.

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  8. Yummy dhal curry.. nice entry..

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  9. Comforting Dal recipe..Looks delicious !!!

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  10. This looks absolutely delicious! This is my first time stopping by, and I'm sure I'll be coming back for more! :)

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  11. A healthy and delicious one priya, love the addition of oats init!

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  12. what a lovely ,healthy ,interesting dish priya...never added oats to any curry

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  13. very healthy recipe ,very tempting presentation...luks yum.

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  14. ப்ரியாவுக்கு நிகர் ப்ரியாவே தான்...எவ்வளவு வித்தியசமான குறிப்புகள்...வாழ்த்துகள்...

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  15. This looks wonderful. Another dish that is unfamiliar to me, but it looks so good I'm willing to give it a try. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Blessings...Mary

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  16. Very innovative.Oats add the health benefits in the recipe. Thanks for sharing.

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  17. looks delish priya ...yet another innovative dish frm ur side..

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  18. Priya I really admire you....you never fail to come up with wonderful recipes....thanks for sharing this....
    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  19. very innovative..looks healthy n delicious.

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  20. What a marvellous dish! It's very lovely and yummy!

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  21. brilliant idea of using amaranth stalk...great recipe

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  22. Oats...Amaranth stalks...u getting all creative...good on ya Priya..a simple meal has to be creatively spiced up n made interesting...to enjoy.

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  23. u are too creative dear..healthy recipe

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  24. that looks like a perfect combo of unusual ingredients! looks great!

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  25. Great way to use the stalks and adding oats makes it all the more nutritious..

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  26. wow , lovely dish. never cooked with amaranath, thought :)

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  27. Awesome dish.. healthy too..

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  28. Adding oats to curries is a great idea! You are like the Iron Chef who can come up with great dishes with unusual ingredient.

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  29. perfect use of stalks n oats. Delicious

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  30. kalakuringa priya....u r rocking dear...

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  31. have heard a lot about ur blog...every blog i visited so far has definiteley mentioned ur recipes....got very curious and i couldnt stop visiting it..... good collection and beautiful presentation of recipes...shall love to try them :-)

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