PULICHA KEERAI AND BRINJAL

When I had this dish in my friend’s house, I was
Surprised by the combination of these two veges.
Anyway it tasted good.

PULICHA KEERAI AND BRINJAL

Ingredients:
300 grms of cleaned pulicha keerai or gongura
150 grms of brinjal (kathirikai)
5 garlic pips (poondu)
2 green chillies sliced (pachai milagai)
3 birds eye chillies. ( usi milagai)
Salt

½ tsp mustard seeds (kadugu)
1 tsp urad dal (ulunthu )
3 small red onions sliced ( chinna vengayam )
2 dry red chillies cut into pieces ( kaintha milagai )
1 tbs oil

Method:
Chop the keerai, add the keerai brinjal, garlic,
Green chillies, birds eye chillies and salt,
In a pot, add little water and boil till the keerai
And the brinjas are cooked nicely.
Cool the mixture and grind it coarsely in a mixie.
Heat a wok , add the oil when it is hot add the mustard
Seeds, urad dal, the small onions and the cut red chillies.
Sauté nicely add in the ground keerai, add enough salt.
Let the mixture boil once, remove and serve with
Steaming rice.