French beans chana dal sabji- a healthy and delicious stir fry of beans and lentils
This Beans stir fried with soaked chana dal sabji is a high protein healthy side dish. It can be served with roti, rice or as a salad with your meal.It can be easily packed in school or office tiffin boxes with some curry or curd for a complete meal.
This french beans chana daal sabji s quite similar to the south Indian style bean poriyal. In southern India they add semi crushed daal in veggie’s like beans, carrot, cabbage, okra, bitter gourd and beans etc. and make like a stir fry. In poriyal they also add grated coconut instead of lentils. You can also add some grated coconut in this sabji to make it more healthier and interesting.
I made this stir fry with French beans but you can try it with Chinese long beans too, but try to choose fresh and tender ones, mature and dry one will not taste good in this. Choose tender fresh French beans as they cook faster and taste better.
How to make beans and lentil stir fry
To make this easy stir fry ,soak the lentils for minimum 2 hours and then trim the edges of the beans and chop into desired size of your preference. Make a tempering of cumin and asafoetida in hot oil. Then add chopped green chili and ginger and stir fry. Then add the soaked chana daal, turmeric and little salt , cover and cook for 5 minutes. Then add the chopped french beans , tomato, salt , turmeric, chili powder and cover and cook till done. Then add coriander and lemon juice and mix. Serve with roti, paratha or rice.
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French beans chana daal sabji
French beans and chana dal sabji- a healthy delicious stir fry of beans and lentil
Ingredients
- 2 cup French beans
- 3/4 cup Bengal gram /chana daal
- 2 Green chili/hari mirch chopped
- 1 Tomatoes / Tamatar chopped
- 1 Lemons / Nimbu
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli powder / Laal mirch powder
- to taste Salt / Namak
- 1 tsp Coriander Powder / Dhaniya Powder
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 4 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 1 tsp Ginger / Adrak chopped
Instructions
- Wash the beans ,trim the edges and chop into desired shape of your choice.
- Wash the daal and soak for 2 hours.
- Heat oil in the pan and then add cumin seeds.when cumin start crackling then add asafoetida, green chilies and ginger and stir .
- Now add the soaked chana daal , turmeric, little salt and 1/3 cup water , stir well , cover and cook on low heat for 3-4 minutes.
- Now open the lid and add the chopped beans,chopped tomato , coriander powder, salt, chili powder and mix.
- Cover and cook on low heat till done.
- Add some chopped fresh coriander and lemon juice and mix,
- Serve with roti or rice and enjoy.
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