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Odia Sajana Saag dish is famous in the whole world and is only available in Odisha. This dish is also special as it is considered one of the healthy dish and doctors recommends patients to have it in their daily eating list. Today we will learn how to prepare Odia sajana saaga - moringa leaves dish.

Moringa Leaves Dish : Image

In case you visit Odisha, please visit veg restaurants and ask for this dish. Its very healthy and saves your from extreme hot climate of Odisha.

Benefits of Drum Stick Leaves/ Moringa Leaves :

Moringa tree or also we call it Sajana tree is one of the important and useful tree when it comes to health related. Its leaves and drum sticks are useful in treatment of :

Increases eye visibility - If a person is facing visibility disorder and not able to see, it is highly recommended to eat and drink its leaves and drum sticks juice.
Control Blood Sugar Level
Helps body in gaining antioxidant
Good source of Vitamins and minerals
Diabetes patients must eat - Its very useful for diabetes patients as it provides all those essential elements that is require for body.

How to prepare Drum stick leaves recipe/dish :

Now lets start on to the main process of preparing Moringa Leaves dish i.e. Sajana Saag. Before that friends let me tell you as I told earlier in above its benefits for diabetes patients also, hence you can conclude the ingredients that will be used are also health benefit only.

Below is the list of ingredients that is require to prepare the dish :

Sajana leaves
Moong/mooga dali
Dry red chillies
Garlic - chopped
Refine oil
Salt, sugar
1 middle size Onion
Turmeric powder

Process :

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Step 1 : Take a pan and put water to boil the moong daal

Step 2 : Let the daal boil but don't over boiled it as you will loose the nutrients and no use to eat.

Step 3 : Take out and filter out boiled water and keep the boiled moong daal aside.

Step 4 : Put a fry pan and let it warm.

Step 5 : Add 2 spoon of refine oil on the hot pan. Once the oil start heating along with the pan, add chopped onion pieces, red chillies, garlic pieces ( you can also use garlic paste if you don't have garlic pieces ) and fry till the onion turn golden colour.

Step 6 : Add 1-2 two spoon of turmeric powder and mix the items well and let it warm for another 2-3 minutes.

Step 7 : Now add drum stick leaves, mix it well with the other fried items, add salt as per your taste but I will recommend you not to add too much salt as it will kill the real taste and value of the dish.

Once you stir it will , add or sprinkle water on it and let it warm for 2-4 minutes. Why sprinkle water is because water will generate extra steam which will cook the dish quicker way.

Step 8 : Add boiled moong daal and still the mix once again and let it cook for another 5 minutes.

Your dish is ready and you are now only left with your creativity presentation. You can either eat it straight way or you can eat this "Sajana saag " with roti, rice or bread also.

Hope you find the process very easy and you can definitely prepare the best one. Don't forget to share your dish down the comment and let me know your feedback on this.

You must have tasted crab recipes in different places and must have got the different taste ideas and procedures how to prepare. If you haven’t tasted Odisha famous non-veg crab curry then why not prepare it now and serve to your family and friends !!?

Well to prepare typical Odia crab curry, you first need to understand the balance of masala Odia people use in their recipes. Let me share you the complete procedures with list of steps to prepare it.

Raw Ingredients

• Fresh crabs as per your requirements

• 2 tbsp. mustard oil

• 2 tsp. turmeric powder

• 1 teaspoon salt

Marinate the cleaned crabs with above and let it for 15-20 min so that whole ingredients get inside the crabs.

Now it's time to prepare the curry for this we need below ingredients :

For the Masala preparation we need

• 2-3 large onion

• 1 medium sized tomato

• 5-6 large garlic pods

• 1 inch ginger

• 2-3 dried red chillies

• 1 tsp. cumin seeds

• 1 tsp, black peppercorns

• 2 tsp. mustard seeds

• 1 tbsp. coriander seeds

• 1 tsp. poppy seeds

• 3-4 cloves

• Cinnamon (1 inch)

Take a pan and dry roast dried red chillies, cumin seeds, black peppercorns, mustard seeds coriander seeds, cloves and cinnamon till they start to sputter and release their aromas.

Now in a grinder jar take sliced onions, tomato, garlic pods, ginger, poppy seeds and all the dry masalas and grind to a fine paste.

For the curry we need

• 1 tsp panchfootana

• 1 bay leaf

• 1 tsp garam masala

• 2 cups of hot water

• Mustard oil

• Salt to taste

Preparation :

1. Take about 4 tablespoons of mustard oil in a wok and heat till it reaches the smoking point and add the marinated crab meat. Stir-fry for 5 minutes till the crab changes colour. Remove from the crabs and keep aside.

2. In the same pan stir-fry the thickly sliced potatoes and keep aside.

3. Add bay leaves to the remaining oil, add bay leaves and panchfootana and let them sputter. Add the ground masala paste and stir-fry on a medium flame till the masala leaves oil.

4. Once the masala is fully cooked and the raw smell is gone add the fried crabs and stir-fry another 3-4 minutes.

5. Add the fried potatoes and then add 2 cups of water. Mix it all nicely and reduce the heat to low, adjust the salt, cover it and let it simmer for about 10 minutes or until it is done.

You can either keep the gravy either thick or thin as per your choice.

Once you start getting aroma with crabs smell, sprinkle the garam masala and garnish it with chopped fresh coriander.

Now our special crabs recipe is ready to be served.