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SUPERFOOD RECIPE: DAAR CHI BHAJI

17/2/2019

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Consuming superfoods on your mind, then red amaranth leaves or daar chi bhaji (as the leaves are called in the Kokani dialect spoken by the community) is the go to vegetable in the Kokani Muslim households. The amaranth plant is a common occurrence in the village houses growing in the backyard or courtyard of the house in the Konkan belt of Maharashtra. Its leaves being a rich source of iron, antoxidants, vitamins, phytonutrients and even dietary fibers. Back in the days, around a meal time the leaves were plucked, washed, chopped and quickly spun into a nutritious broth.
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For this traditional oil-free recipe, the leaves are cooked in a very minimal way to keep their nutritional value intact and flavoured with simple ingredients like onion, green chilli and salt. Optionally as a modern twist a sprinkling of crushed black peppercorns and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice can be added for further flavouring.
Below is the recipe for the broth .

Prep time: 5-10 minutes
Cook Time: 10-15 minutes
Serves: 2

Ingredients:
  • 3 cups Red amaranth leaves, washed & coarsely chopped
  • 1 Onion, small-sized sized, peeled & finely sliced
  • 1 Green chilli, slit
  • 1½ cup Water
  • ¼ tsp Crushed black peppercorns (optional)
  • ½ tsp Fresh lemon juice (optional)
  • Salt to taste
Method:
  1. Mix onion, green chilli, salt and crushed black peppercorns in a mixing bowl. Keep aside.
  2. Bring water to a boil in a medium sized cooking pot on medium heat.
  3. Add the onion mixture once the water comes to a boil and turn the heat to low.
  4. Allow the mixture to simmer for 5 minutes.
  5. Add the chopped red amaranth leaves and cook for another 5 minutes till they soften lightly.
  6. Serve hot with a drizzle of lemon juice.
So, do try out this recipe and let me know how it turned out.

Till then, HAPPY COOKING !


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What is Red Amaranth and why it’s popular as food? link
16/2/2023 21:39:13

A long time ago, this flowering plant became a foremost food source for the Native and Central Americans. You can call it blood amaranth, red amaranth, and many other significant names. Among its great history, the Aztec cultivated the red amaranth around 6k-8k years ago. So, it’s an ancient plant

How to Grow Red Amaranth Indoor?
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It has a big tag as healthy food. But why is it so? Because red amaranth has dietary fibers, proteins, copper, amino acids, phosphorus, potassium, and so on. It means it is a box of nutrients, isn’t it? People call it phytomedicine and nutritious vegetable plants. This is a finding from the National Library of Medicine. However, this foodie plant is also on the list of fast-growing. So, gardeners love this leafy plant.

So, red amaranth is quite popular as a food plant throughout the world in Africa, America, Southeast Asia and other tropical countries as well. Growing red amaranths indoors in which USDA zone? In all USDA zones, the red amaranths grow well. So, it’s an easy-growing plant.

When all the leafy veggies grow well in winter, the red amaranths love the warm and hot weather to grow. Red amaranths seed love to sprout in the early spring and fall season. The cool season is not for them. Mostly in South Asian countries, the red amaranths also grow well in the winter. You can see red amaranths and green amaranths as well. But today, we are focusing on the red amaranths.

However, the red amaranth from the seed to the table is a fantastic journey and the result from this leafy vegetable is something you will love. The ancient Greek name amaranth means the eternal flower. Finally, red amaranths are popular for making delicious dishes and the grains allow flour and pasta manufactured for high nutrient value, which is gluten-free. So, a lovely and multi-tasking veggie plant is red amaranth. Each and every part of this plant is edible.

Moving on to the plant description- this typical red-colored leaves plant can grow up to 150-200cm tall. If we focus on the leaves, it has hairy edges and mostly oval-shaped broad leaves. Red amaranths are annual species. There are 60-70 species available as an amaranth variety. In the USA, the common varieties are the redroot pigweed, tumble pigweed, green round leaf, white pigweed,

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