When I find edible greens around, it would remind my Amma’s food experiments with all the possible ways. Colorful idlies, mixed green/flowers chutneys, rice varieties, payasams, thorans (dry sabji/curry with grated coconut).. The highlight of those foods is we won’t get to know what all are the ingredients which went in 😝

Amma likes to prepare different food everyday. It might be from her own recipe or from some cookery shows or books/articles.
Honestly, I didn’t get any of those qualities 😉 It’s not that I hate cooking, I cook just to eat and survive. I don’t enjoy it like my Amma do😬

Today for the first time I made a mixed greens chutney(#tambuli).
Can you guess the greens I used?

I grinded all these leaves with grated coconut, a small green chilly, a small piece of ginger, and few cumin seeds. Tadka is optional. Additionally you can add tamarind pulp too, if you want more tangy chutney. I didn’t because one of the leaves added here will do the magic instead of tamarind.

We had this along with idli and Veldt grape powder from greenhands.in. The batter is made with traditional rices and whole black urad bought from greenhands.in. I have used multiple rices here like sornamughi, thanga samba and mappillai samba plus a small amount of millet too.
Check your garden and surroundings for the edible weeds and greens. We have an entire range of vitamin shop out there for free!
Notes –
💚While foraging, make sure you identify the plant correctly and wash them properly before consuming.
💚If you want to know more about Edible weeds and recipes, check out my previous blog. Shruti from @forgottengreens also lists many which are very useful(She conducts workshops too). Krishna from @edibleweedwalk also shares wonderful videos all the way from Auroville, Pondicherry.
💚Names of the greens are added in below.
Adding the common names in English and scientific names also to easy identification.
1. Mint
2. Betel leaf
3. Mexican mint – Trachyspermum ammi
4. Malabar spinach – Basella alba
5. Tulsi
6. Centella and Asiatic pennywort – Centella Asiatica
7. Gale of the winds, Stone breaker – Phyllanthus niruri
8. Creeping woodsorrel – Oxalis corniculata
9. Curry leaves – Murraya koenigii
10. Lemon vine – Pereskia aculeata