October 2018 - Odia Khana Khazana | Odisha Recipes | Odisha Sweets

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.