Agathi Keerai Soup | Agathi Keerai Thanni aaru
Agathi Keerai Soup is a mild comforting soup made by cooking agathi keerai with garlic, onion & spices and blend with 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.
Servings2 people
Ingredients
- 2 cups agathi keerai leaves loosely packed
- 3/4 cup coconut
OR
- 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 sauté 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 Agathi Keerai Soup 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.
Nutrition Facts
Agathi Keerai Soup | Agathi Keerai Thanni aaru
Amount Per Serving (150 ml)
Calories 284
Calories from Fat 234
% Daily Value*
Fat 26g40%
Saturated Fat 21g131%
Trans Fat 0.01g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
Cholesterol 3mg1%
Sodium 2419mg105%
Potassium 435mg12%
Carbohydrates 14g5%
Fiber 4g17%
Sugar 5g6%
Protein 4g8%
Vitamin A 3767IU75%
Vitamin C 111mg135%
Calcium 84mg8%
Iron 4mg22%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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