{"id":3849,"date":"2017-07-08T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2017-07-08T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:30:48","slug":"kerala-cheera-thoran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/kerala-cheera-thoran\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Cheera Thoran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/kerala-cheera-thoran\/cheera-thoran\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3855\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera-Thoran.jpg\" alt=\"Cheera Thoran\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera-Thoran.jpg 640w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera-Thoran-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera-Thoran-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red Spinach (Cheera -\u0d1a\u0d40\u0d30 ) is Kerala\u2019s own spinach variety which is grown at almost every home garden. This nutritious leafy vegetable is commonly prepared as stir fry in coconut oil with coconut masala and red chilli. Cheera thoran is a perfect accompaniment for rice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Finely chopped cheera\/Red Spinach :10 Cup<\/li>\n<li>Stem chopped \u00a0 \u00a0: \u00bd cup<\/li>\n<li>Chopped onion : 1 (Medium)<\/li>\n<li>Chopped garlic \u00a0: 2 T- Sp<\/li>\n<li>Coconut \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: 1 Cup(Adjust)<\/li>\n<li>Jeera \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: \u00bc t- Sp<\/li>\n<li>Green chilli\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: 5(Adjust)<\/li>\n<li>Turmeric powder : \u00bd t- Sp<\/li>\n<li>Oil \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: 2 T- Sp(Adjust)<\/li>\n<li>Salt for taste<\/li>\n<li>Mustard \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: \u00bd T- Sp<\/li>\n<li>Dried green chilli : 3<\/li>\n<li>Curry leaves<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/kerala-cheera-thoran\/cheera\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3853\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3853\" src=\"http:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera.jpg\" alt=\"Cheera\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera.jpg 448w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cheera-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wash the cheera and keep it in a strainer for drying the water.<\/li>\n<li>Separate the stem and leaves, chop it and keep it separately.<\/li>\n<li>In a mixer add the coconut, jeera ,green chilli and turmeric powder; pulse it to make a coarse masala mixture.<\/li>\n<li>Heat oil in a pan and splutter the mustard followed by the dried red chilli.<\/li>\n<li>Then add the chopped stem along with onion, salt and garlic; saut\u00e9 it until the onion became translucent (the same time is enough for cooking the stem also).<\/li>\n<li>Now add the chopped cheera and saut\u00e9 it for about 1 minute .<\/li>\n<li>Add the coconut mixture and saut\u00e9 it for about 30 seconds or until the raw smells of the coconut gone.<\/li>\n<li>Finally add the curry leaves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tips :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some I made double quantity of ingredients.<\/li>\n<li>Use only tender (soft) stems for thoran. Hard pieces won\u2019t cook properly.<\/li>\n<li>Do not close the pan for the entire cooking since that will ooze water from cheera.<\/li>\n<li>Typical cooking time of cheera leaves is ~ 1 \u00bd minutes. But it may vary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Spinach (Cheera -\u0d1a\u0d40\u0d30 ) is Kerala\u2019s own spinach variety which is grown at almost every home garden. This nutritious leafy vegetable is commonly prepared as stir fry in coconut oil with coconut masala and red chilli. Cheera thoran is a perfect accompaniment for rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-diet","category-kerala-specials","category-side-dish","category-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pepper2salt.com\/sindhus-kitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}