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Spring Onion Stir Fry

Spring Onion stir fry is kandyachya paatichi bhaji in Marathi. Leafy vegetables (Marathi- Palebhaji) hold very important place in Maharashtrian cooking. The Maharashtrian household will have atleast one variety of palebhaji on daily menu. There are a varied number of palebhaji available, methi, palak being the common ones in addition to shepu(dill), rajgira(amaranth), chawlai, tandulja, chuka, chakwat, kardai, ambadi and so on. Leafy vegetables are very easy to make, most of them are just stir fried with crushed garic and green chilly. These leafy vegetables are full of nutrition, loaded with minerals, vitamins, calcium and iron. Sometimes, you can add soaked daals or roasted groundnut powder or grated fresh coconut to enhance the taste.

Ingredients

Spring onions - 6-7 nos along with leaves

Garlic - 10-12 cloves

Green chillies – 1-2

Oil – 2 teaspoons

Split Masoor Daal(pink lentil) – 2 tablespoons

Salt – As per taste

Method

Wash and soak masoor daal for about 20-30 minutes. Wash spring onions and chop(about 5mm size). Heat oil in a pan, add crushed galic and chopped chilly and stir fry for about a minute. Then add spring onions and stir fry for about 2 minutes. Add soaked daal, salt and stir well and cover with a lid and cook on low flame for about 4-5 minutes. Stir fried spring onion vegetable is ready to be served.

Note – Spring onion stir fry tastes well with sukkat(dried shrimps/small prawns) as well.