GREEN BEANS PODITHOOVAL (Green beans with powdered spices)

Green beans is full of nutrition, low in calories, and nevertheless, a good source of vitamins and minerals,  as we all know, and this is a new kind of curry, which goes along with our south indian menu or is a good side dish for rotis too.

Ingredients

Beans - 1/2 kg., washed and chopped

Sugar - a pinch

Salt to taste

Curry leaves

For roasting and powdering

Fresh coconut - 3 tbsps

Channadhal - 3tsps

Split Urad dhal - 3 tsps

Coriander seeds - 4tsps

Hing powder - 1/4 tsp

Red chillies - 4-5

Cooking oil to roast  -1  tsp

For tempering

Coconut oil - 2 tsps

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Split urad dhal - 2 tsps

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian; Category: Curries

Prep time: 10 minutes; Cooking time: 30 mts

Serves 4

In as little water as possible, cook beans, with a pinch of sugar. This is to retain the green colour of beans.

In a pan, add 1 tsp oil, and roast the ingredients mentioned above.

Well roasted

                             Remove the above roasted things, and add coconut and start roasting.

Coconut roasted to golden colour.

                  All the roasted ingredients allowed to cool, and then powdered to a coarse powder.

Top the powder on the cooked beans, to which salt has been added, then add curry leaves too.

Coconut oil taken in a pan, and ingredients for tempering added.

                               Then poured over the powder and curry leaves, and mixed well.

                                                        Serve hot with rice or rotis.

Variations

* If you are serving with rotis, an onion can be chopped and sauteed, after seasoning, and then added to the cooked beans.

Categories: Dry Curries for Rotis, South Indian Curries