There is no way to make this recipe sound as seriously delicious as it is. Let me add up to it: not only delicious, it is extra nutritious too because it has wonderful, tiny drumstick leaves. Actually speaking it’s double nutritious because of green grams which cook up pulpy too soon. When you think of cooking drumstick leaves, ensure you have enough stock of green gram to pair it with.
Generally drumstick leaves have a note of bitterness which you never even notice in the curry when cooked with green gram legume. So it’s the best mix and match to combat the bitterness and enjoy health benefits simultaneously.
Drumstick leaves curry is simple just like this => cook your legumes and toss them up in spicy coriander leaves paste along with sauteed onions plus few basic spices. OH MY PERFECT SPICY GOODNESS. Spread it over Akki rotti or chapati and make it’s way to your mouth, then slowly bite and chew to indulge all spices. Oh my gosh…I am drooling right now and can’t wait to recreate the magic of drumstick leaves curry. Let me check the stock…You check the recipe.
Drumstick Leaves Curry | Chapati Side Dish
Ingredients
- Green gram - 1/2 cup
- Onions- 1 no.
- Drumstick leaves- Big bunch
- Lemon- 1 no.
- Coriander leaves- 1/4 cup pressed
- Green chillies- 2 nos.
- Garlic pods- 3 to 4 no.
- Salt- 3/4 tsp
- Turmeric powder- 1/ tsp
Seasoning ingredients
- Cooking oil- 2 tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Split black gram lentils- 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves- few
Instructions
Preparation
- Soak green gram in enough water for about 1 hour.
Method
- Chop onion to a fine cubes and remove drumstick leaves from it's thick stem. You can retain some of the tender stems and chop finely too. Pressure cook green gram up to one whistle.
- Next put coriander leaves, green chillies, turmeric powder and garlic pods in to a mixer and whir it to coarse paste. Meanwhile heat a cooking pan adding oil, mustard seeds, split black gram lentils and curry leaves. Saute till the mustard seeds crackle, then include chopped onions. When the onions turn translucent include drumstick leaves too.
- Drumstick leaves wilt after few minutes of sauteing then include cooked green gram and ground coriander leaves paste from step 2. Combine well. Add salt and a cup of water. Let it cook for some more time so that curry becomes thick and flavorful. Squeeze in lemon juice at the end and put off the flame.
- Yummy drumstick leaves curry is ready to relish as chapati or akki rotti side dish.
Notes
- If you couldn't soak green gram then pressure cook for some more whistles so that it turns soft and pulpy.
- As I had soaked green gram for about an hour, pressure cooking for 1 whistle was enough to make it soft.
- Using coriander leaves in generous quantity makes the curry palatable and rich in flavors. So don't skip it.
- Green gram plus drumstick leaves make a best combo and it helps in reducing little bitterness that is present in leaves.
