Thotakura Pulusu Kura

This is a savoury and tangy curry made with tender thotakura leaves.Sorry i dont know what this green leafy vegetable is called in english.But i found a pic of it in mahanandi blog...so just wanted to give u an idea of how it looks like

http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/category/indian-vegetables/thotakura-amaranth/

It is cooked in the similar way to spinach and can be used in stir frys,dals etc.This is a simple recipe as all the the ingredients are put togeather in a pan and bought to a boil and once cooked nice tadka is added to the curry.

Such simple recipes are easy to cook and time saving and healthy as well as less oil is used..



Ingredients:

1 medium bunch Thotakura
1 medium size onion chopped fine
1 small tomato chopped fine
3 green chillies
1 lemon size tamarind soaked in 1 cup water n pulp extracted
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 1/2 tsp chilli pwd
salt
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp jeera
3 dry red chillie broken into halfs
few curry leafs
2 pods garlic crushed

Method:

Wash n clean the thotakura by seperating the leaves from the stem.

Now finely chop the leaves and the tender parts of the stem(the remaining stem which is bit thick u can chop them into 1" size pc's and store it in a zip lock bag and use it in beerakaya pulusu etc)

Add chopped thotakura into a saucepan.

To the same pan add the chopped onions,chopped tomatoe,slit green chillies,salt,turmeric,chilli powder and the tamarind pulp along with the 1 cup water in which it was soaked.

Cover and cook until the thotakra and onions turn tender.Now remove the lid and let some of the water evaporate until u get ur desired cocnsistency.

Now in a small pan heat some oil,to this add the mustard,jeera,dry red chillies,crushed garlic and few curry leaves.

To this tadka add the boiled thotakura mixture and mix.

Serve it with warm rice