Kolmi Shak Bhaja /Ung Choi/Water Spinach /stir fry with poppy seeds and peanuts
Kolmi Shak Bhaja Recipe is one of the daily summer lunch menus of Bengalis, as they start their lunch with shak or ‘teto’ means bitter taste like korola bhaja or neem begun. It’s a very simple recipe, but having enormous food value and is very delectable in taste. It goes well with hot piping rice and dal.
What is Kolmi Shak? Kolmi shak also known as Ung Choi/Water Spinach is a water plant it grows in wetland areas such as near swamp ponds or small lakes.
As per stylecraze, it has many health benefits, such as it helps to reduce cholesterol, treat liver problems and jaundice, treat anemia, it is also anti-diabetic, fight against cancer and increase immunity power
How can consume? It can be consumed in many ways ;
Stir fry water spinach
Water spinach with sun-dried lentil dumpling
Kolmi shaker ghonto
Water spinach with poppy seeds and peanuts
The types of equipment required for this recipe are
Small fry pan
Scissors
Strainer
Fry pan with lid
Spatula
Ingredients required are
Kolmi shak/water spinach; use fresh Kolmi shak for better result
Poppy seeds
Daler bori/sun-dried lentil dumpling; I used kalai/urad daler/red lentil bori
Peanuts
Other ingredients are Turmeric powder, garlic, green chili, onion, and salt
How to make Kolmi Shak Bhaja Recipe
Take a small fry pan add dry roast the poppy seeds and keep them aside
Heat oil in the same pan and add the bori and fry them until the color changes to light brown
Again add oil, to the same pan and fry the peanuts
Clean and wash the Kolmi shak, and cut them into tiny pieces with the help of a scissors
Heat oil in a pan and add the chopped garlic, and sauté them for 20 seconds
Then add the green chili, and chopped onion, and fry them for a minute
Now add the Kolmi shak, and add turmeric powder and salt; mix them
Cover the lid, and allow them to cook for 2-3 minutes on low flame with their own water
Open the cover, add peanuts and poppy seeds, and mix them well
Add fried bori, and turn off the flame
Transfer them to a serving plate and serve with hot piping rice and dal.
My other related posts are
- Pat Shak Bharta Recipe
- how to make delicious narkel diye kochur shak
- Bori Diye Lal Shag Bhaja
- Sarson Ka Saag
- How to Prepare Lasooni Palak
- Brahmi Shak Bhaja Recipe
- Dheki Shak Bhaja
- Susni shak
Kolmi Shak Bhaja Recipe
Equipment
- A kadai or a fry pan
- Spatula
- Knife / scissors
- strainer
- small fry pan
Ingredients
- 100 gm kolmi shak/water spinach/UngChoi
- 1 tbsp Poppyseeds/posto/khaskhas
- 1/3 cup peanuts
- 10 Bori(sun dried lentil dumplings)
- 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
- 5 cloves chopped garlic
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 green chili
- salt
- 2 tbsp oil
Instructions
- Take a small fry pan add dry roast the poppy seeds and keepthem aside
- Heat oil in the same pan and add the bori and fry them untilthe color changes to light brown
- Again add oil, in the same pan and fry the peanuts
- Clean and wash the Kolmi shak, cut them into tiny pieceswith the help of a scissors
- Heat oil in a pan and add the chopped garlic, and sauté themfor 20 seconds
- Then add the green chili, and chopped onion, and fry themfor a minute
- Now add the Kolmi shak, and add turmeric powder and salt;mix them
- Cover the lid, and allow them to cook for 2-3 minutes on lowflame with their own water
- Open the cover, and add peanuts and poppy seeds and mix themwell
- Add fried bori, and turn off the flame
- Transfer them to serving plate and serve with hot pipingrice and dal.