These days I am trying to use greens at least once in a week. Because, I find it difficult to do shopping everyday, whenever I buy greens, I have to finish them off in one or two days. Usually I buy spinach, but this time I bought green collard greens. I had no idea what to cook with them, but I was in a mood to cook something new. So I came up with this.
When cooked these in cooker, a very familiar aroma started filling the kitchen. I thought they smell/taste a lot like kohlrabi(navalkol). Unlike spinach, they don’t become completely mushy after cooking. We loved this dish.
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Toor dal is only next to the white rice when it comes to ‘food ingredient priorities’ in our households. These are the pictures of the cooked dal, you can spot the small onion in the first pic. I love all of the following 3 pictures. Let me know which one you like the best.
Update: The above picture goes to click.
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Ingredients:
2 cups chopped green collard greens
1/2 cup onion
1/2 cup tomato
1/2 cup + 1/2 tea spn chana dal
1/2 cup moong dal
1/2 cup toor dal
Oil
1 tea spn chili powder
A pinch turmeric
1/2 tea spn urad dal
1/2 tea spn coriander seeds
1/2 tea spn cumin seeds
1/2 tea spn mustard seeds
1/2 tea spn methi seeds
A pinch asafoetida
2-3 kokum pieces
Salt
Method:
Cook 1/2 cup chana dal, toor dal, moong dal with turmeric in cooker. Cook greens. I used two cooker vessels, placed the dals in the bottom one and greens in top one.
Heat oil and fry chana dal, methi seeds, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, urad dal, coriander seeds, asafoetida. Grind to a powder.
Heat oil and fry onions. When they are brownish, add tomato and cook. Add dal, greens, chili powder, kokum, ground powder, salt and cook.
Serve hot.
Serves : 5-6
Preparation time : 30mins
Update: The first picture goes to click :). Thanks for all your feedback.
nice dal. shilpa, you can make patra (colocasia leaf spirals) using collards.
bee
Hi Shilpa…nice pics. I personally like the first one best. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful dish, Shilpa! I liked the 2nd pic-looks perfect to me. The daal is in shape, lovely color too!
Loved the pic.s.I love collard greens , one of the greens i got introduced to after coming to US.
Its a nice and healthy variation and different too !!
I like the first click of arhar dal with the onion..
Thanks for posting. Incidentally, I tried this on my own by accident a few months back, unsuccessfully. How long are the greens cooked? I don’t have inserts for pressure cooker like you mention, so I have to use a different vessel. When I made it, the greens came out very stiff.. it’s best to cook the greens in the pressure cooker? Thanks.
Shilpa: Jeniffer, I think it is best to cook in pressure cooker as the greens take a long time. Cook it for same amount of time as dal.
I love collard greens and this is one great recipe, delicious and nutritious! Great clicks too!
all the clicksare good,.but iliked the onion one…nice recipe too
I like the second pic best.
I have to try this delicious dal!
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Beautiful click and delicious dal
1st one looks great with onion on it… but 2nd one is more colorful and the texture of dal looks perfect… 🙂
lovely click dear…..
Your recipes are awesome! Making papads from scratch…..impressive! 🙂
Kalyani
hey collard greens curry looks great…nice healthy dish shilpa.
Is that a new kadayi I see? Beautiful piece. I like the triplet of dhals you used here- I prepared something similar a few weeks back. It looks so delicious! Kohlrabi and collards are actually the same species, but each were developed differently, hence the same flavour! I love them too…
This recipe is great. This is the first time I tried cooking collard greens. And am loving it. However, I could not pound the dals and the spices to a fine powder. It is very coarsely ground.
But nevertheless, fabulous dish 🙂
Made this today with spinach and it was just soooo good and fragrant. Next time will have to try with collard greens. Thank you for the recipe.
Another recipe to use collard greens as per Syrian cuisine is as below;
– 1.5 cup of pink lentil “skinned and split lentilsâ€
– 0.25 cup of rice, starch in rice will give the desired thick structure for the soup
– 300 gr of chopped parsley
– 500 gr of chopped collard greens
– Juice of 2 lemon.
– 1 table spoon of finely chopped garlic to be added to the soup later on
– 1 table spoon of chopped garlic to be fried with oil and added to soup before serving
– According to your taste add red chili powder, salt
– Cooking oil of fat
Boil lentils and rice in water and add few pieces of whole garlic and some chili, keep it to boil for about 30 min then use an electrical blender to mash the mix.
Now add the chopped parsley and collard greens and keep boiling for another 20 min, now add the finely chopped garlic and lemon juice.
Finally fry the chopped garlic in good quantity of cooking fat or oil till garlic becomes golden in color then add to soup bowl.
This dish must be served with a slice of lemon for those who like and dried bread crumbs, it is rich in proteins through lentils and in vitamins and fibers through added greens.
I hope you’ll like it,