Keerai Thandu Poriyal Recipe – Spinach Stalk Stir Fry Recipe

Keerai Thandu Poriyal recipe with step by step photos. A quick and delicious stir fry using spinach stalks. It is usually made with the thick stalk of “thandu keerai”. It is known as “Foxtail Amaranth” (Amaranthus Caudatus) in English. In my maternal home, its a custom to cook thandu keerai alternating with agathi keerai on Sundays for worshipping Goddess “Amman”during the tamil month of “Aadi”, which falls between mid July and mid August. My Grandma always stored the seeds and planted thandu keerai and cultivated it during Unlike other keerai varieties like “Mulai Keerai”, “Siru Keerai” or “Arai Keerai” this thandu keerai grows very tall, almost 3 to 7 feet from the ground. It is said that “Thandu keerai” is a rich source of fibre…