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Beans Poriyal (Green Beans Stir fry)

Delicious beans poriyal or beans palya is a South Indian style green beans stir fry made with minimal ingredients and garnished with grated coconut. So good and healthy.
Course Side
Cuisine Indian
Keyword beans palya, Beans poriyal, green beans stir fry with coconut
recipe vegan
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 126kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 cups chopped beans about 500 gm.
  • 2 tsp. Olive oil or any cold pressed vegetable oil for tempering
  • 1 tsp. Chana dal split Bengal gram
  • 1 tsp. Urad dal split Black gram
  • 2 dry red chillies
  • 1 sprig curry leaves
  • ½ tsp. Salt
  • ¼ tsp. Turmeric powder
  • ½ tsp. Cayenne or podi
  • ½ cup grated coconut for garnish

Instructions

  • Wash and dry the green beans. If using haricot beans, snip off the ends and chop the beans into equal sizes.
  • I prefer to keep them small but you can even keep them upto 1 inch long.
  • If you are using beans that have strings. Then remove strings from both sides of the beans and then chop into pieces.
  • Keep aside.
  • Assemble 1 tsp. each chana dal, urad dal and mustard seeds along with 2 dry red chillies.
  • I have used 2 tsp. Olive oil for the tempering. You can skip it if you want zero-oil cooking and dry roast the tempering ingredients and add.
  • Heat a pan. Add 2 tsp. Oil and let it heat.
  • Now add mustard seeds, both the lentils and broken red chillies. Stir till mustard seeds sputter and the lentils brown a bit.
  • Add 1 sprig curry leaves and fry for 30 seconds.
  • Add chopped green beans along with ¼ tsp. Turmeric powder and ½ tsp. Salt.
  • Mix well and cover. Cook on low flame.
  • After 5 minutes remove the cover and mix well. It releases some moisture on its own and helps in cooking the beans.
  • If it looks dry, add 2 tsp. Water. Cover and cook till the beans are tender. Takes about 10-15 minutes depending upon how tender your beans were.
  • Now finish off with ½ tsp. Cayenne or podi powder (if you have it). This adds a little zing.
  • Mix and garnish with half cup grated coconut.
  • Mix well and serve hot.
  • It is simple and tasty. Goes so well with rotis or as a side for rice and dal. Enjoy.

Notes

Choose tender green beans. Those have the most flavour
Fresh grated coconut adds a lot of freshness to the taste of this dish and good fats too. If you don’t have it, you can use grated desiccated coconut.
The tempering adds a nice flavour to the stir fry. If you want zero-oil cooking then you can skip the oil and dry roast the lentils, curry leaves and mustard seeds along with red chilli and add to the beans.
4. You can also use carrots along with beans in this recipe to make carrot beans stir fry. Make sure to cut carrot and beans of the same size.

Nutrition

Calories: 126kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 247mg | Potassium: 209mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 743IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 1mg