Ingredients

• 1 bunch - keerai/amaranth/spinach, cleaned and chopped
• Tamarind, small gooseberry sized, soaked in water
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp - oil
• 1 tsp - mustard seeds
• 1 tsp - urad dal
• 1 or 2 - dried red chillies
• 1/2 cup - coconut
• 1/2 tsp - jeera/cumin seeds
• 1 or 2 - green chillies

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• Extract juice from the soaked tamarind or use 1 tsp tamarind paste.
• Cook the keerai in a heavy bottom kadai with 1/2 cup water, tamarind extract, salt and asafoetida.
• Mash nicely with a ladle while it is cooking.
• When the keerai is cooked and mashed nicely, keep aside.
• Heat oil in a small pan. Add mustard seeds.
• When it splutters, add urad dal.
• Add to the keerai masial and serve.
• Recipe courtesy: My Kitchen Trials