Beans curry recipe | How to make beans curry | Beans recipes
Beans curry made with simple and basic ingredients to serve with rice or chapati.
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Ingredients (1 cup = 240ml )
- 2 cups beans chopped (french beans or cluster beans or long beans)
- 1 handful moong dal , pesara pappu
- ½ tsp ginger , crushed . (optional)
- 1/3 cup tomato or 1 large red and ripe tomato (chopped)
- 1 sprig Coriander leaves , chopped
- 1/8 tsp turmeric
- Salt to taste
- ½ to ¾ tsp red chili powder
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- ½ tsp cumin /jeera
- 1 Pinch mustard seeds
- Oil as needed
- 1 Pinch hing
How to make the recipe
- 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 to 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.
NUTRITION (estimation only)
Calories: 32kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 2g | Sodium: 13mg | Potassium: 157mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 315IU | Vitamin C: 26.6mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 1.1mg