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Monday, June 28, 2010

Aloo Beans!

Ingredients

French beans-1/2 kg
Onions-1-2
Tomotoes-2-3
Potatoes-2-3
Panch Phoren-1/2 teaspoon
Rai(Mustard seeds)-1/4 teaspoon
Tumeric powder-1/4 teaspoon
Salt-1/2 teaspoon
Oil-1 cooking spoon
Green chilly-1 cut and 2 whole with just seeds removed.
Water-1-2 teaspoon

Recipe:-

1. Wash the beans and potatoes and cut them small.

2. Take oil in a pan and heat it.

3. Put panch and rai in the oil. Then add onion and fry them a bit and then add tomotoes, small green chilly and followed by tumeric powder and salt. Also add potatoes during this time and fry a bit.

4. Add french beans during this time and mix it properly. Add whole green chilly during this time.

5. Close the lid and let it cook. See after 2-3 minutes if beans doesn't let out water put little water and close the lid to let it cook.

6. Cook it for 7-10 minutes till beans and potatoes are done. And then open and mix it nicely so all excess water is evaporated.

Aloo beans are ready!

Variations

1. Sem ki phalli(broad beans) are made is same way. Adding rai is not necessary.

2. Long beans (also called lobia beans) are also made similarly without rai.Just give 3-4 whistles in a cooker so it gets cooked.

3. Snake beans (long thin beans) are made similarly and cooked in cooker for 3-4 whistles and added some water.

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