Vegetarian Lunch - Saiva Saapadu

Ingredients

1 pound spinach 50 grams of lentil 10 curry leaves one small onion 10 grams of mustard seeds 1 gram asophetidia 1 gram of turmeric 1 petal garlic 5 grams fenugreek

Cook the lentil well add oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds and curry leaves, followed by the onions. Add the asofhetidia, garlic and fennugreek add the spinach. Cook it for 2 minutes add the cooked lentil and an ounce of water and cook it for 3 minutes. Its ready to be served.

Bittergourd with onion and tomatoes
Thinly slice the bitttergourd and onion lengthwise add oil to the pan and add the onion first and the sun dried tomatoes and the bitter gourd. cook at high flame for 2 minutes then add a cup of water and cook slowly stir it a few times. Its a very healthy dish so not many like it but very enjoyable.

This is a very nutritious vegetable dish with rice. Spinach cooked with halved yellow lentils, green pepper, onion cooked with eggs and thinly sliced bittergourd and onion cooked with sun dried tomatos with olive oil and red chillies. This is very filling and quite tasty.