Drumstick | Murungai keerai Stem Soup
Murungai keerai or drumstick leaves is one of the superfood. This is also known as moringa leaves. The murungai maram/moringa tree is sometime called as miracle tree as all of its parts like leaves, drumstick, flower all can be used in cooking and it has numerous health benefits.
In Tamil Nadu, this murungai keerai, murungaikai and flowers for many many years. You can use murungaikai(drumstick) in sambar, avial, pulikulambu and poriyal etc. With murungaikeerai, you can make stir fry, sambar, soup and podi.
This recipe was given by my mil, when i had no clue what to to with the stems, when i got the keerai in a huge bunch.
Best time to consume this soup is during mid-morning times or late evening times.
Prepping :
- Pluck the murungai keerai leaves from the big thick stems.
- If it has small tender stems, it is not a problem. You don’t need to remove that as we are making soup.
- After that, take a pot filled with water, add little rock salt. Give a mix. To this water, add the cleaned murungai keerai stems . Let it soak for 10 minutes.
- Crush the stems slight.
- Ready to make soup.
Lets cook with step-by-step pictures.
Now lets see how to cook:
Drumstick | Murungai keerai Stem Soup
Author: Shalini
Recipe type: Soup
Cuisine: Indian
- Fresh Drumstick stems - handful /bunch
- Tomato - 1
- Green chilli - 6
- Garlic pods crushed - 6
- Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
- Cumin - 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
- Salt - as taste
- Oil - 1tsp
- Water - 1 glass
- Take a pressure cooker, then add washed and crushed drumstick stems. Along with it add green chillies, pepper, cumin , crushed garlic and tomato.
- Add turmeric powder with oil , salt as per taste.
- Add required water and give a quick mix.
- Cover and cook for 4 whistle.
- Once the pressure have come down, crush the tomato little and serve hot.
Pictorial: |
Take all items |
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add the crushed drumstick stem |
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green chilli |
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crushed garlic |
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pepper |
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cumin |
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tomato |
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turmeric |
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water |
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oil |
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salt |
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cook for 4 whistle and after cooking crush the tomato |
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Then serve hot!!
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