Puli Chintaku Pappu

Hi Friends

Do you recognize the green leafs below?

 

Today I am introducing another leafy vegetable to you all. I think most of you people seen this green PULI CHINTAKU, a creeping wood sorrel plant. Botanical name is OXALIS CORNICULATE. In telugu it is also called as AMBOTI KURA. Let's see how to use it.

Let us go to my flash back, our childhood, when I was in my grand mother's house at Nellore for educational purpose, a lot of puli chitaku patches were there at the back yard of the house. During that time I don't know about the nutritional values of this greens. Simply eating when my grand mother prepares dal out of this puli chinatku.

When I found this stem creeping plant in our kitchen garden, much wonder and liitle excitement  and I came to know about health benefits. I told to my mother, my daughter, my son, my sister about this medicated plant. I have decided to prepare dal out of this puli chintaku and longed to taste it after long long time. One can make soup, juice and pachadi with this green. Very simple and easy to prepare.

OK. Let us go to prepare.

Ingredients

• Puli chintaku                handful
• Tour dal                        1/2 cup
• Green mirchi                 5 to 6      Chopped
• Onion                             1 chopped
• Salt to taste

For Popu

• Oil
• Mustard seeds
• One Dry red mirchi
• Hing

1. Soak tour dal for 1/2 hour.
2. Remove leaves from branches of pulichintaku.
3. Place soaked dal, pulichintaku, sliced green mirchi, chopped onion and salt in a pressure cooker.
4. Pressure cook upto 3 whistles.
5. When pressure releases, remove the lid, mix with wooden dal masher.
6. Add popu using mustard seeds, one dry red mirchi and hing.
7. Serve with garama , garam rice with dollop ghee.I goes well with roti also. 

My Note

As these leaves are some what sour, no need of tamarind pulp.
You can use moong dal also instead of tour dal.

Nutritional info

• This meical plant is used in Ayurveda an Unani medicine.
• The soup is used for diarrhoea patients.
• The leaves have been found to be rich in moisture.
• It is use for digestive problem Ayurvedic medicine.
• The juice of leaves is used for skin disease like warts, corns etc.