Agathi Keerai Soup is a mild comforting soup made by cooking agathi keerai with garlic, onion,spices and coconut milk. Agathi Keerai Soup is very healthy and has medicinal qualities to improve stomach health. Agathi Keerai Soup is also called as Agathi Keerai Thanni Saaru making is explained in this post with step by step pictures.
Agathi Keerai Thanni Soup is a soup made with coconut milk and spinach variety called agathi keerai. It has a lot of medicinal benefits so including it is good. We call it thanni saru as it is watery and is more like a soup. Do try and enjoy!
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About Agathi Keerai Soup
Agathi Keerai Thanni Saaru is a soup made with Collard greens variety along with coconut milk. It tastes great with plain rice or can be had as such like a soup. This greens has a slight bitter taste which will be compensated by coconut milk.
This greens has numerous health benefits. It is a great natural remedy for mouth ulcers, so try to include it in your meal.
Agathi Keerai Soup Ingredients
- Agathi Keerai – This green variety called collard greens or agathi keerai is used for this soup.
- Coconut Milk – Thick coconut milk is preferred for this soup.
- Tempering – Oil is heated, cumin seeds is splutter then small onion, garlic, hing and curry leaves are added and spluttered.
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How to make Agathi Keerai Soup Step by Step
1.Grind coconut with enough water to extract coconut milk, Keep aside. Separate the leaves from the stem, Rinse greens well. Drain water and Set aside.
2.Add arisi mandi(water used for rinsing raw rice) or plain water in a bowl and heat it up. Once it starts boiling, add the greens and let it boil for few mins till the greens change color and turn soft. Let it cook in medium flame. Meanwhile in a kadai add the items listed under ‘to temper’ then add onion, garlic and saute till golden brown. Then add this to half cooked greens.
3.Boil for few more mins till greens gets cooked. Lower the flame and add coconut milk. Bring it to a single boil and switch off.
Serve warm with steamed rice!
Expert Tips
- Don’t let it cook for more time after coconut milk is added just a single boil is enough. If you overboil then it might curdle.
- The consistency should be thin more like rasam so adjust water level accordingly.
- Add the tempered items when greens is half cooked so that onion garlic gets cooked too along with greens.
- Arisi Mandi is nothing but the water we use for rinsing and washing raw rice before cooking.
Serving and Storage
Agathi Keerai Soup can be served with rice or can be had as such.
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Agathi Keerai Soup Recipe | Agathi Keerai Thanni Saru Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups agathi keerai leaves loosely packed
- 1/2 cup thick coconut milk
- 3 cups arisi mandi or water
- 1/2 teaspoon ghee
- salt to taste
To temper
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 1 teaspoon jeera
- 6 big sized garlic chopped finely
- 10 nos shallots / small onions
- a small sprig curry leaves
- a tiny pinch hing
Instructions
- Grind coconut with enough water to extract coconut milk, Keep aside. Separate the leaves from the stem, Rinse greens well. Drain water and Set aside.
- Add arisi mandi(water used for rinsing raw rice) or plain water in a bowl and heat it up. Once it starts boiling, add the greens and let it boil for few mins till the greens change color and turn soft. Let it cook in medium flame. Meanwhile in a kadai add the items listed under ‘to temper’ then add onion, garlic and saute till golden brown. Then add this to half cooked greens.
- Boil for few more mins till greens gets cooked. Lower the flame and add coconut milk. Bring it to a single boil and switch off.
- Serve warm with steamed rice!
Notes
- Don’t let it cook for more time after coconut milk is added just a single boil is enough. If you overboil then it might curdle.
- The consistency should be thin more like rasam so adjust water level accordingly.
- Add the tempered items when greens is half cooked so that onion garlic gets cooked too along with greens.
- Arisi Mandi is nothing but the water we use for rinsing and washing raw rice before cooking.
Rumana Ambrin
Wow!!! so yummy and different dish..
AparnaRajeshkumar
heard the benefits never had a chance to taste.. may be i should try on my own.
Sapthanaa Vytheswaran
yummy! my mom used to prepare this!!
thendral
We make this recipe with dhal water..parupu thanni..this one looks yummy too.
Sara
Frozen Keerai I get in my place may be too bitter. So my soup turned out to be bitter. How to reduce bitterness?
Sharmilee J
Agathi keerai has a slight bitterness only it is actually thuvarpu