Sagas are green vegetable and very healthy food.
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Ingredients:
1) 2 small bunch of methi sag (fenu greek leaves)
2) 3 small tomato sliced into small pieces
3) 7/8 vadi
4) 1 small eggplant cut into small 1 inch sqaure pieces.
5) 2 green chilies
6) 1 dry red chili
7) 1/2 tsp. mustard seeds
8) 2 tsp. oil
9) salt to taste
10) coriander leaves
Method:
1) Wash the methi saga properly and then cut it &
keep aside.
2) Heat about 1/3 cup of water in a pan and add eggplant
to it.
3) Cover this for 5 mts and then add methi sag and little bit
of salt. Cook it for 10 mts and then keep aside
4) Heat a fry pan in medium flame & add tomato and salt
and little bit of water and make a thick paste.
5) Add the tomato paste made in step 4 to the cooked sag
in step 3.
6) Heat a fry pan and fry Vadis in a little bit of oil till
they turn brown.
7) Add this to sag in step 5
8) Again heat a fry pan and add 2 tsp. of oil and then put mustard
seeds, green chilies and red chili
and allow them to splutter
9) Then add sag to the seasoning (in step 8) and mix it properly.
Add coriander leaves and serve with rice.
Kosala Sag Bhaja
Contributed by Jhili of Cary, North Carolina
Ingredients:
1) 2 bunch of Kosala sag
2) 1 small potato
3) 1 small onion
4) 1 small or half of a eggplant
5) 2 cloves garlic crushed
6) 1 dry red chili
7) pancha phutana or just mustard seeds
8) 1tsp oil
9) salt to taste
Method:
1) Wash the Kosala sag properly and cut it and & keep
it aside.
2) Cut Potato, eggplant & onion to small pieces
3) Then heat a pan in medium flame & add cut vegetables
with a
little water
4) Then after sometime add the cut Sag ( be sure not to add
any extra
water ) then add some salt to taste & cover up the pan for
next 4/5
minutes.
5) Heat another pan & add some oil in it . Then add
the panch
phutana , dried red chili & crushed garlic then the boiled
sag . Fry it
for 1 more minute .
Then your Sag is ready for saja pakhala ( water rice ).
Piaj Sag Bhaja (Green onion
fry)
Ingredients:
1) 2 bunch of piaj sag (green onion)
2) 1 potato pieled and cut into small pieces
3) 1 small onion cut into small peices
4) 1 green chili minced
5) 1/4 cup of corn seed (optional)
6) 1/2 tsp. punch phutana seeds
7) 1 tsp. of oil for frying
8) 1/2 tsp. of turmeric powder
9) 1/2 tsp. of coriander powder
10) 1/2 tsp. of red chili powder
salt to taste
Method:
1) Wash the green onion properly and then cut it into 1
in pieces & keep aside.
2) Heat a fry pan in medium heat and put the oil
3) After the oil is hot add punch phutana seeds and green chilies
into it.
4) Once it splutters add onion and fry it until turns red.
5) Then add potato, corn seeds, turmeric powder, chili powder,
coriander powder, salt
and fry it until potato is half-cooked
6) Then add green onion and fry it for 5-6 minutes
Your dish is ready to serve with rice or roti.