SPINACH WITH TOOR DAL
               Toor dal is either boiled or pressur cooked till               soft and whole.Eresh spinach is roughly chopped               and cooked in gurlic infused oil .Finally cooked                toor dal is added to spinach and briefly cooked               Serve spinach with toor dal over plain steame                             rice or with roti.

                                 INGREDIENTS:

                         Spinach around 8 grms,toor dal 3/4 cup,                         green chilies 2-3,garlic 5  cloves,                         tarmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon,                         salt to taste.
                                  TALIMPU:
                         Mustard seeds 1/4 teaspoon,cumin seeds 1/4                          teaspoon,urad dal 1/4 taspoon,broken red -                         chiles 3,asafoetida a big pinch curry leaves                          4,oil 1 teaspoon.

                                   MATHOD OF PREPARATION:

                          Boil toor dal in few cups of water until                the dal is soft ,translucent and whole.Stra in the                toor dal and reserve the liquid to make toor dal rasam.               Wash and roughly chop the spinach leaves and it is               tender stems.Peel,slice and lightly crush the garlic               cloves.Wash,remove stems and slice the green chilies.

                           Heat oil in a pan ,add all talimpu                ingredients in order.When mustard seeds stop,               spluttering ,stir in green chilies and garlic cloves.               Stir fry for few second ,stir in chopped spinach               and turmeric powder.Cook covered till the spinach               completely wilts.Now add the cooked and strained               toor dal.Cook covered for a minutes if necessary               and uncover.Stir fry for couple of seconds and                season with salt .Remove from head and serve                spinach with toor dal over plained steamed rice                or wrapped in roti.
                           Make sure not to over cook toor dal.

                     Enjoy cooking and eating.