Beans Paruppu poriyal

Beans Paruppu poriyal

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Ingredients:

Flat or French beans - 1/2 lb (250 gm)

Moong dal - 1/4 cup
Red onion - 1

Green chili - 2
shredded coconut - 2 tbsp
Mustard - 1 tsp
Urid dhal - 1 /2 tsp
Sesame or coconut oil - 1 tbsp
Curry leaf - 1 sprig
Cumin - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Hing - a pinch

Salt - 1 tsp (to taste)

Method:

Rinse dal and soak in 1 cup water.

Wash and clean the beans in large amounts of water multiple times to remove all the dirt / sand. Drain water and chop it finely.
Chop onion, chili.
Heat oil in a wok. Add the mustard seeds, urid dhal and let mustard splutter.
Finely chop the onion, chillies, curry leaf (optional) and add to the wok.
Stir till onion turns soft. (30 secs).

Add the finely chopped beans and stir fry for 2 minutes. 

Add the soaked dal, turmeric powder, hing, salt.

Stir well.

Cook covered for 5 - 10 minutes in low heat.

(Ooty beans / French green beans takes lesser time to get cooked. Indian beans takes more time and water to cook). Open the lid. Let all the moisture dries up. Check if the beans is cooked but firm.

Add cumin and shredded coconut , and fry a bit. Switch off.

Beans Paruppu poriyal is ready!

Serving suggestions:
Beans paruppu poriyal can be served as side dish with sambar rice , curd rice or rasam rice, chapati.

பீன்ஸ் பருப்பு பொரியல் 

பீன்ஸ்  - 1/2 lb (250 gm)

பாசி பருப்பு - 1/4 கப் 

பெரிய வெங்காயம்  - 1

பச்சை மிளகாய் - 2

துருவிய தேங்காய்  - 2 tbsp

கடுகு - 1 tsp

உளுந்து  - 1 /2 tsp

நல்லெண்ணெய் / தேங்காய் எண்ணெய் - 1 tbsp 

கறிவேப்பிலை  - 1 கொத்து 

சீரகம்  - 1/2 tsp

மஞ்சள்  - 1/4 tsp

பெருங்காயத்தூள்  - a pinch

தூள் உப்பு  - 1 tsp (to taste)

Simple beans carrot poriyal

Simple stirfries (AKA Poriyal in Tamil) , is  a handy recipe for any Tamil family. Poriyals are made with a simple tadka (tempering) and suits the spicy South Indian curries with rice (whereas the North Indian stir fries would be better with some masalas, as they are used as dippings for roti. Yes, that is one basic difference IMO :).
Mostly I suggest using extra virgin coconut oil in my blog, as per my family's taste. But any cooking oil would do good.
Here is one more interesting way to include beans and carrots in our dish, 'the carrot beans poriyal'.

Carrot beans stir fry

Ingredients:
Carrot - 2 (small)
green beans - 20 (numbers)
shredded coconut - 1 tbsp
cumin - 1/2 tsp
salt - to taste.
To Temper:
onion - 1/2 cup (chopped)
green chilli - 2
mustard - 1/2 tsp
urid dal - 1/2 tsp
coconut oil / olive oil - 2 tsp

Method:
Chop the carrots into small cubes. Cut the beans into small pieces.
Slit the green chilli into two (or) chop finely.
Heat oil in a wok. Add mustard, urid dal and let the mustard crack.
Then add the chopped onion and saute till it gets tender.
Then add the chopped chillies, beans, carrots. Saute well.
Sprinkle a handful of water and cook covered.
Then add required salt.
It will get cooked in almost 10 minutes in medium heat.
Then add the shredded coconut, cumin and stir well for a  minute.
Switch off.
Carrot beans poriyal is ready!

Serving suggestion:
Serve as side dish with rice and any curry like sambar, puli kuzhambu.

Simple Beans poriyal (stir fry)

Flat beans is called as 'nattu beans' (Tamil) or 'country style beans' in India. It has more fiber than the French green beans (popularly known as 'Ooty beans'). The flavorful Flat beans are suitable for South Indian poriyals (stir fry) and easy to cook French beans for North Indian curries and baking.

Here is the most common way to prepare an Indian stir fry. Almost any vegetable can be made as poriyal by this method. Sure it is a basic Indian recipe for starters.

Flat beans.

Beans poriyal

Ingredients:

Flat or French beans - 1/2 lb (200 gm)
Red onion (chopped) - 1
shredded coconut - 2 tbsp
mustard - 1/2 tsp
urid dhal - 1 tsp
coconut oil - 2 tsp
curry leaf - 1 sprig
cumin - 1/2 tsp
Dry red chilly - 3

Method:

Wash and clean the beans in large amounts of water multiple times to remove all the dirt / sand. Drain water and chop it finely.

Heat oil in a wok. Add the mustard seeds, urid dhal and let mustard splutter.
Finely chop the onion, chillies, curry leaf (optional) and add to the wok.
Stir till onion turns soft.

Add the finely chopped beans and stir fry for 2 minutes. Sprinkle a handful of water and cook covered for 10 more minute in medium heat. (Ooty beans / French green beans takes lesser time to get cooked). Open the lid. Let all the moisture dries up. Check if the beans is cooked but firm.

Add salt, cumin and fry a bit. After the poriyal looks very loose without any moisture put the freshly shredded coconut and stir for few seconds. Switch off.

Simple beans poriyal is ready!

Serving suggestions:
Beans poriyal can be served as side dish with sambar rice , curd rice or rasam rice, chapati.