Beans Curry
Beans curry recipe – This recipe can be used to prepare any variety of beans like French beans, cluster beans, Chinese long beans, lima beans, averakai. Make sure you use tender beans and devein them well if needed. To make this beans curry.
Course
Side Dish
Prep Time
10
minutes
Cook Time
25
minutes
Prep Time
10
minutes
Cook Time
25
minutes
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
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.