Cluster Beans Coconut Stir Fry/ Kothavarangai Poriyal
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2 cups
 
Ingredients
  • • • Mustard seeds – ½ tsp.
  • • • Urad dal/split black gram – 1 tsp
  • • • Asafetida – ¼ tsp
  • • Onion – ½ cup, chopped (1 small)
  • • • Green chilli – 1, chopped
  • • • Curry leaves – 1 spring
  • • •cluster Beans – 2 cups, chopped, around 1 inch
  • • • Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
  • • • Sambhar powder – ½ tbsp
  • • • Salt – to taste
  • • • Red chillies -2 , broken
  • • • Fresh coconut – 1 tbsp
  • • • Oil - ½ tbsp
  • • • Coconut oil – 1 tsp
Instructions
  1. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, urad dal, asafoetida, red chilli and let it splutter. Add curry leaves and fry for a min. Now add chopped onions and green chillies and salt and sauté well till onions gets slightly browned.
  2. Now add the chopped cluster beans, sauté for a minute. Add the turmeric powder and sambhar powder. Mix it well. Add water till it is almost covered. Close the lid and let it turn soft and raw smell leaves.
  3. Once all the water gets evaporated, add dry coconut and give a quick stir fry. Finish off by adding 1 tsp of coconut oil and switch off.
Notes
1. You can mix few more veggies like carrot to the same recipe and use it.
2. You can substitute this with any veggie you fancy and make this same stir-fry.
3. You can use 1 tsp of coconut oil to garnish. It gives extra flavor.
4. You can use frozen veggies also, then you have to just 1 tbsp of water, add the coconut and switch off.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/cluster-beans-coconut-stir-fry-kothavarangai-poriyal/