Amaranthus pulusu (thota kura pulusu)is a very famous dish in andhra pradesh.This is very easy recipe .We can prepare this recipe with in a short time. This is traditional recipe In olden days people use to eat amaranthus pulusu with ragi sankati.This is good combination and also gives strong body.Amaranthus is a leafy vegetables which one has very good nutrients values.So this recipe is also have very good for useful in weight loss treatment and low calories(add less oil) and fat free .
Ingredients
| amaranthus | 2 cups |
| onion | 1 |
| green chillies | 4 |
| tomato | 2 |
| tamarind | 3 flakes |
| turmeric | pinch |
| salt | to taste |
| red chilli powder | 1 spoon |
| sugar | 14 spoon |
| water | 4 cups |
| oil | 2 spoon |
| mustard seeds | 1/4 spoon |
| cumin seeds | 1/4 spoon |
| garlic | 10 cloves |
| dry chillies | 2 |
| urad dal | 1/4 spoon |
| chana dal | 1/4 spoon |
| curry leaves | few |
Preparation
Wash amaranthus with water.Add 1 spoon of crystal salt in the 1 liter of water.Keep the amaranthus in this water for 15 to 20 minutes.
Wash tomatoes,onion and green chillies.
Cut the onions into small pieces.
Cut the tomatoes into 5 to 6 pieces.
Cut the green chillies into 2 pieces.
Cut the amaranthus leaves into medium size pieces.
Method
1.Take a thin bottom vessel or pressure pan.
2.Add all chopped vegetables like tomato pieces,onion and green chilli pieces,amaranthus pieces.
4.If you are using pressure pan cook this till 2 to 3 whistles.
5.If you are using thin vessel cook till all vegetables become tender.
6.Cook in thin vessel may have chance to add more water than cooking in pressure cooker.
7.Add water if required.
8.Open the cooker lid when pressure completely comes out.
9.Mash the vegetables and taste the pulusu.
10.If salt is not enough add salt.If any ingredient require you can add at this time.
11.curry constitency should be like pulusu constitency(watery).
12.Take a pan and put it on the flame.
13.Add oil in the pan.After heating the oil add mustard seeds .
14.When they started to crackle add cumin seeds and dry chillies.
15.After that add garlic cloves.fry for 1 minute.
17.Add curry leaves.Put this seasonings to pulusu and mix all well.
18.This is very good recipe to eat with roti as well as rice.
Keep in the mind
In this recipe there is no need to cut the vegetables into very small pieces.Because we can blend or mash the vegetables after they cooked well.
You can use mixie to make fine paste.Other wise use masher to mash the vegetables (not for completely mash).
Take care when adding the garlic cloves in the oil for fry.
We should remove upper layer of garlic cloves or should use garlic cloves after they mashed.Other wise garlic cloves can spultter in the oil.
If you do not like to add sugar in this recipe you can avoid it.Addin g sugar is a optional.
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