“Pasalai keerai or siru pasalai” is known as chicken weed in English. This almost-forgotten spinach has many medicinal benefits, including curing intestinal ulcers.

The Spinach has a delicious flavor and strong aroma; it can be used to make all sorts of vegetable dishes and curries. What’s interesting about this spinach is that you won’t find it in the shops; you will find it only when you work in the fields. And even then, one must have the patience to harvest this small, delicate spinach.

As more and more people’s incomes are defined by an extractive economy and thus our diets by industrialized agriculture. Such spinaches truly become forgotten foods.