Spinach Thoran

Spinach happens to be my li'l one's favourite green.  Can you guess why? Coz he thinks Popeye's muscles are made of spinach!!!  Oh boy!!! Only if he believed that Superman's biceps were because he ate Okra and Transformers gobbled up beetrots for power, you would have had a mom on 'cloud nine' here...

Here i'm sharing the way I make spinach thoran - have peppered it with urad dals in an effort to make it more interesting and colorful :)

You will need...

Spinach - 300gms(washed and chopped)

Onions - 1 sliced

Grated/Desicated coconut- 1 handful

Jeera - 1 pinch

Green chillies - 2-3

Chilly flakes - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric - 1 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Urid dal - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Salt - to taste

Coarsly grind coconut, jeera and green chillies together. In a thick bottomed pan heat oil, splutter mustard seeds and add urid dal. Add sliced onions and curry leaves and saute well. Add the ground coconut mixture, turmeric, chilly flakes,salt and chopped spinach. Mix well and stir fry in high heat until all the water disappears. Serve hot with rice/roti.