Today’s recipe is a simple and quick to prepare beans dish.

Beans fry

Time taken: 20 mins

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• Green beans – 1 cup, chopped
• Garlic – 3 cloves, chopped
• Onion – ½, chopped
• Red chilli – 1
• Curry leaves – 1 sprig
• Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
• Scraped coconut – 2 tbsp
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Pepper – 1 tsp
• Salt, to taste
• Low fat oil – 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Clean the beans and chop it up into small pieces. Add some salt and keep aside.
2. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and add the chopped onion, garlic, red chilli, curry leaves and fennel seeds to the pan. Stir-fry for about 2 mins.
3. Then, add the chopped and salted beans to the pan and fry for a few mins.
4. Add ½ cup of water to the pan and continue cooking the beans on low heat.
5. Once the water evaporates or dries up in 5 – 10 mins, add 2 tbsp scraped coconut, ½ tsp turmeric, 1 tsp pepper and mix well. Stir-fry for 2 mins and remove from stove.
6. Serve with rice.

Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.