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Beans Poriyal Recipe

Beans Poriyal is a traditional South Indian dish that you can make with minimum effort and it is chock full of nutrition and flavour. This green Beans stir-fry makes a great side dish with any meal. I am sharing with you today this super easy to make recipe of South Indian Style French beans stir fry with coconut
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Course: curry, Side Dish
Cuisine: indian cuisine, south indian
Keyword: 20 Minutes, dry curry, green beans
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 4 as side dish
Calories: 94kcal
Author: Rekha Kakkar

Equipment

  • WOK

Ingredients

  • 300 gm Green Beans
  • 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
  • ½ teaspoon Cumin seeds
  • teaspoon Asafoetida
  • 1 teaspoon Urad dal
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 dried red chilli.
  • 2 green chillies
  • 10 curry leaves
  • 2 tablespoons fresh coconut
  • 1.5 tablespoons coconut oil

Instructions

Beans Poriyal Stovetop Method

  • Start with washing the beans. First, pat them dry and then chop them. Chopping may take some time but if you have a food processor it hardly takes 30 seconds. Just add whole beans to the processor and pulse it 4-5 times. That’s all it takes.
  • Now heat oil in the pan and add asafoetida. Also add mustard seeds, when mustard seeds splutter add cumin seeds and skinned urad dal.
  • Allow them to cook for 1 minute on medium heat and add chopped green chillies, curry leaves and whole red chillies.
  • Fry them for a few seconds and add chopped green beans.
  • Cook on medium heat for 4-8 minutes depending upon how thin or thick you have chopped beans. I cut them thin so I cook for 5 minutes.
  • Next, add salt to taste and mix.
  • Add freshly grated coconut, mix and enjoy delicious and healthy beans poriyal.

Beans Poriyal Instant Pot

  • Although a quick stir fry recipe that I prefer to cook on the stovetop. You can make these green beans poriyal or palya in the instant pot as well.
  • Start with washing the beans. First, pat them dry after washing and then chop them.
  • Start the instant pot on the saute mode and add coconut oil.
  • Now add mustard seeds, when mustard seeds start to splutter add cumin seeds and skinned urad dal.
  • Next add in chopped green chillies, curry leaves and whole red chillies.
  • Fry them for a few seconds and add chopped green beans.
  • Now place the lid on the instant pot and set the timer for 0 minutes on pressure cooker mode. When you set pressure cooker mode on an instant pot it takes time to build the pressure and that much time is sufficient to cook green beans.
  • Open the lid after releasing pressure and add salt and coconut to the beans.
  • Mix everything and serve the poriyal.

Video

Notes

French beans are also known as string beans. 
If you are using any other green bean take care of cooking time and cook accordingly.
You can make poriyal with any other finely chopped veggies like carrots or capsicum.
Small size young and tender green beans are best for making beans poriyal because these cook faster and taste better. 

Nutrition

Calories: 94kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 81mg | Potassium: 178mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 623IU | Vitamin C: 62mg | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 1mg