Healthy Food Recipes - Avarakkai (Broad Beans) & Carrot Poriyal!
Posted on: 09/Jan/2015 11:45:44 AM
Ingredients:
- Avarakkai (Broad Beans) – 250 grams
- Carrot – 1 nos
- Onion – 2 nos(small)
- Tomato – 2 nos (small)
- Garlic – 8 nos
- Curry leaves – a few
- Mustard seeds – ¼ spoon
- Cumin seeds – ¼ spoon
- Turmeric powder – ¼ spoon
- Sambar Powder – ¾ spoon
- Salt – as required
- Cooking Oil – 3 spoon
Method for Preparation:
- Wash the broad beans thoroughly in water and cut it into small even sized pieces.
- Finely chop both onion and tomatoes.
- Peel off the skin from carrot and finely grate it.
- Heat the oil in the pan and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Now add the dashed garlic, curry leaves and onion. Sauté it well until the onion colour changes to golden brown.
- Then add the chopped tomatoes and sauté for about 2 minutes, so that the tomato shrinks and the raw smell leaves, then add Chopped Avarakkai (Broad beans), saute it well about 2 minutes
- Now add salt, turmeric powder, sambar powder into it. Stir well and add required quantity of water and allow it to boil. Else you can pressure cook it for about 1 whistle. (If you are using the pressure cooker, then only little quantity of water is sufficient.) (Just add less than 50ml of water.)
- Now open the lid and add the grated carrot. Stir well for about 3 to 5 times.
- This is distinct from usual broad beans Poriyal and very tastier and colourful too!
Notes:
- Roast the dry groundnuts and grind in along with the dry red chilli. Grind it as the coarse powder and store it in the fridge. Use it along with any kind of vegetable Poriyal. It will give more taste to the dish.
- In this broad beans Poriyal, if you are going to sprinkle the groundnuts powder, then avoid adding carrot into it.
- While washing the broad beans, add a pinch of salt in the water to get rid of the germs.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
