This thuvayal is easy to make, very healthy and tastes great with rice. It can be prepared with coriander leaves or curry leaves or pudina/mint leaves or a mix of all the 3 greens. It tastes great with rice. It is very nutritious and easy to make.
Mint/Coriander/Curry Leaves Thuvaiyal
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time : 7 mins
Serves: 2-3
Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Serves: 2-3
Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Mixed greens – 1 cup tightly packed (mint, coriander and curry leaves)
Urad dal – 2 tbsp
Bengal Gram/Channa dal -1 tbsp
Toor dal -1 tbsp
Red chillies -2 -3
Asafoetida/hing –a pinch
Whole black pepper – 1/4 tsp
Tamarind – small gooseberry sized ball/1/4 tsp tamarind paste
Coconut -1 tbsp grated (optional )
Salt – as required
Method
Heat a tsp of oil in a kadai, add urad dal, channa dal, tur dal, red chillies, whole black pepper and asafoetida. Saute until dal turns light golden brown.
Then the mixed greens and sauté until it wilts. Turn off the heat. Add grated coconut and saute in the heat of the pan. Leave it to cool.
Once it cools, grind it along with tamarind, salt and a little water.
This thuvaiyal tastes delicious when mixed with hot steamed rice and a tsp of ghee/sesame seed oil.
It can be used as an accompaniment for chappati and dosa also.
Note – I personally use 3-4 dried gooseberry pieces instead of tamarind as gooseberries are rich source of vitamin C.
Variation
You can use either one of the greens (mint leaves or curry leaves or coriander leaves) or all three together and make this thogayal.
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hi padhu... am indeed very thankful to u for ur recipes.. am a keralite but i love tamilnadu dishes.. as a beginner i have tried lot of dishes frm ur blog and it turned out to be tasty.. if i want to prepare something new i start searching ur blog... keep up the gud ob.. thank u
i just love your recipes...
Thank you padhu for ur recipes ... last year i had seen your athirasam recipe & made athirasams for diwali .... dis year also i plan to make....
the way ur blog giving confident to make the traditional recipes .....
advance happy diwali.....!!!!!
I have tried many of ur dishes and it was liked by everyone of my family Thank u so much . why pepper has to be added here as we already add chilli for spicy.
Just for flavor and taste. You can skip it if you do not want to add.
When to add coconut in the recipe
After adding the pudina leaves, saute for a few seconds and then add grated coconut and saute in the heat of the pan.
Thanks for the recipe.. Your site is the one I look up for homemade recipes .. Very useful for bachelors ..
Hi Padhu. Shelf life?
I cup of each mint, coriander and curry leaves?
Padhu! This pachadi was awesome! Trust me, it was a hit among the dinner last night. I did tempering with ghee and red chillies with mustard, it was toooo good.
I've always looked up to your recipes. And this is just amazing!
Lots of love padhu! <3
-roshni