Gardening

It has red veins (there are also with green veins) with meaty green leaf. It is a climbing vine. What is it?  It is known as the Ceylon spinach,Indian spinach, Malabar Spinach, Red vine Spinach or simply known as Vine spinach and in Tamil it is Pasali Keerai. Apart from being a nutritious vegetable it could also be grown as an ornamental plant.

You can use these to cook the spinach soup, soufflés, quiche, omelets, frittatas, or stir fry with a little butter, nutmeg, salt and pepper. It can be also shredded and added to chicken broth with ginger and tofu for the non vegetarians and as for the vegetarians, just discard the chicken broth and add other vegetables, and you got yourself a healthy vegetable soup. It can be cooked like chard but with more substance. It has a mucilaginous quality when cooked at length, similar to our other friend, okra, so watch out the cooking duration. I simply like to cook this with Dhal.

Like other leaf vegetables, it has vitamin A, vitamin C, Iron and Calcium. It is low in calories(volume) and high in protein (per calorie). It is has a rich source of chlorophyll and also with soluble fiber, valued for removing mucus and toxins from the body.

Apparently not many know how to cook this and therefore do not know what they are missing………L

I managed to find a chutney recipe that uses the Indian spinach, yes, you read it correctly, it is chutney, http://www.aayisrecipes.com/2008/06/15/malabar-spinach-chutneyvali-bhajji-sasam/

I am going to cook this, this weekend….