Moringa Leaves and Memories

Moringa has always been a part of our diet growing up. In many households, there would be a moringa plant, so we regularly ate the sticks, leaves, and even the flowers.

The sticks are commonly used in sambar, and we also make delicious curries with coconut or combine them with potatoes in different ways.  

The leaves are used to prepare upkeri or added to dosa batter.

Out of all these, moringa dosa has always been my favourite. This  photo from Lishakki brought back all those old memories. 

Here is the photo of Umman which can be made with Potato. The taste is awesome

Whenever we visited a house with a moringa tree, the return gift would often be fresh moringa sticks or leaves — depending on the season. This was this years collection from Chithra's house 

And here is how the Moringa flowers sukke look like 💗💗