Yard long beans - Chana dal Stir fry

Yard long beans when combined with chana dal makes an excellent combination for rice as well as roti.Beans,dal and garlic chilli powder adds a unique taste to the curry which is very well balanced in flavor.

Ingredients:

1 Bunch of Yard long beans
1/2 cup chana dal
1 big Onion,finely chopped
1/4 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
A sprig of curry leaves
2 garlic cloves,chopped and crushed
Oil

To grind:
5-6 dry red chillies
2-3 tbsp grated dry coconut
4-5 garlic cloves
salt to taste


Method:

• Wash and wipe the yard long beans and chop them into 1/2 inch pieces.
• Pressure cook chana dal for 1 whistle or cook it on stove top until it is done.Take care that the dal will not become mushy.Drain it and keep aside
• To make Garlic Chilli powder grind red chillies along with grated dry coconut and salt to a coarse powder.Add garlic cloves to it at the end and grind again.
• Heat oil in a deep bottomed tawa and crackle mustard seeds.
• Add crushed garlic,curry leaves and fry for a minute.Add finely chopped onions and fry until they are translucent.
• Add the chopped beans and fry for 2-3 mins.Cover it with a deep bottom plate and fill it with water and let the beans cook on steam for 12-15 mins until the beans are tender.
• Add chana dal to it and fry for 4-5 mins.
• Add the ground spice powder to it and mix and let it cook for a couple of minutes.
• Remove it from fire and serve hot.
  

Serve it hot with hot rice and fryums/papad or serve it with roti.

Note:
You can use cluster beans/gawarphali/goru chikkudu instead of yard long beans in this recipe and follow the same procedure.Just that you need to parboil o pressure cook cluster beans before proceding to make the curry instead of steam cooking it.

This is going to participate in MLLA-18 hosted by Srivalli of Cooking 4 all seasons event started by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook.