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broad beans recipe simple avarakkai poriyal(stir fry)

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Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • Avarakkai/broad beans - 1 cup chopped
  • Split yellow pigeon peas/toor dhal - 2- 3 tbsp
  • sugar - 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Coconut scrapping - 2-3 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Red chillies - 1-2
  • Oil - 1 tsp

Instructions
 

  • Steam the vegetable with needed salt little sugar for 5 minutes(approx)and keep aside.
  • Boil toor dhal till three fourth done strain it and keep aside.
  • Keep a kadai add oil when it is hot add mustard seeds and chillies when seeds splutter add avarakkai to it and mix nicely.
  • At this stage check for salt if it is less you can correct it.
  • Then add toor dal and mix.
  • After that add coconut scrapping and switch off the flame.
  • Let it be in kadai for some time so that all the moisture is absorbed.

Notes

Toor dal should be three fourth cooked which is best for these type of stir fries.
Adding sugar to avarakkai when steaming retains the color of vegetable.
Add coconut after switching off the flame.
After switching off let it be in kadai for some time so that all the moisture is absorbed.