Tamil New Year Recipe
Beans Curry Recipe
Prep Time | 10 minutes |
Cook Time | 25 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 2 cups beans
- Fistful of moong dal pesara pappu
- ½ tsp Crushed ginger optional
- 1 large tomato red and ripe chopped
- coriander leaves (chopped
- 1/8 tsp turmeric
- Salt to taste
- tsp ½ to ¾red chili powder
- 1 sprig of curry leaves
- tsp ½cumin /jeera
- Pinch of mustard seeds
- Oil as needed
- Pinch of Hing
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Instructions
- Wash and soak moong dal in enough water for at least 30 minutes. Make sure it is soaked thoroughly.
- Add water to a pressure cooker, add chopped beans in a bowl without adding any water. Place this bowl in the pressure cooker and cook for 2 whistles.
- Heat a pan with oil, add mustard, jeera and curry leaves, let them splutter, then add hing and ginger if using, saute.
- Add tomatoes, salt and turmeric. Fry the tomatoes till they turn fully mushy. After that cook for another 2 mins.
- Add the dal, beans, chili powder and salt as needed.
- Mix well and fry for 2 to 3 mins. If there is any stock left after cooking beans, just pour it and increase the flame to evaporate that water.
- Close the lid and cook for 2 to 3 mins till the beans turn tender and blend well with the tomato and chili powder. Also make sure dal is cooked fully.
- Add coriander leaves, coconut if desired. beans curry is ready.