Today’s recipe is very simple; Bori Diye Lal Shag Bhaja / Stir-fried Red Amaranth Leaves. Tomake this recipe you just need very fewingredients. Along with Red Amaranth some Poppy seed, sun dried lentil fritters(choto bori) dried red chili, greenchili and panchphoron. Rest is stir-frying the shag along with the otheringredients. Then enjoy with hot piping rice.
Take a bundle of red amaranth, clean and wash them
Cut them into small pieces
Again wash them thoroughly
Heat a kadai, and dry roast the poppy seeds, and takethen out from the kadai
Next add some oil in the kadai, and fry the bori, tillthey turn into light brown; it takes hardly 2-3 minutes
After frying the bori, add left over oil in the pan;and add panchphoron, green chili and red chili for tempering
As they splutter and sizzle add the red amaranth
Add turmeric powder and salt, and cover the lid for 2minutes to reduce the volume of the shag
Open the lid and mix them well with turmeric powderand salt
Now again cover the lid for 3-4 minutes and allow themto cook in low flame ;( no need to add water, as the shag itself having sufficientwater to cook.)
Open the lid and add the fried bori and mix them well
Now add the poppy seeds and mix them well with theshag
Transfer them to a serving plate and serve hot with hotpiping steamed rice