Manathakkaali keerai (black nightshade) soup recipe

INGREDIENTS:

1. Onion - 1
2. Garlic - 8 cloves
3. Tomatoes - 2
4. Manathakkaali Keerai (Black Nightshade) - 1 cup
5. Salt to taste
6. Oil - 1/4 cup or as required
7. TO FRY:
   1. Cinnamon stick - 1 inch
   2. Cloves - 4
   3. Fennel seeds - 1/2 tablespoon (tbsp)
8. TO GRIND:
   1. Shredded coconut - 1/4 cup
   2. Hot green chili - 4
   3. Kasa kasaa (poppy seeds) - 1/4 tablespoon (tbsp)
   4. Pottu kadalai (roasted gram) - 2 table spoon (tbsp)
   5. Fennel seeds - 1/4 table spoon

PREPARATION:

1. Cut tomatoes, onion and garlic into find pieces.
2. Cut the keerai (greens) into fine pieces.
3. Ground the "to grind" (coconut, poppy seeds, roasted gram, fennel seeds, green chili) into find paste.
4. Heat oil in a pan, add "to fry" (cinnamon stick, cloves, fennel seeds) ingredients, when the fennel seed start to splatter add the cut onion and cook it turns golden brown.
5. Now add the cut tomatoes and cook until the oil separates. now add the keerai (greens) for 2-3 min.
6. Add the ground paste and 2 cups of water and cook until the raw smell goes away and serve.

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