Double Beans Recipe | How to make double beans
Double beans curry is a flavorful side dish for roti or chapati.
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Double Beans
- 1 medium Onion
- 1 medium Tomato
- Salt to Taste
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 4 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Urad Dal
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1/4 tsp Hing/Asafoetida
Ingredients for grinding :
- 1/2 cup Fresh coconut
- 1 tbsp Corinader Seeds
- 4 Red Chillis
- 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 7 small Garlic
- 1/4 tsp Black Pepper Seeds
Instructions
- Wash and soak double beans for 4 to 5 hours. We can soak them over night also.
- Slice tomato and onion.
- After 4 to 5 hours of soaking double beans, drain water.
- Add fresh water and salt and turmeric powder.
- Pressure cook them for 3 to 5 whistles.
- Once the pressure goes off, drain excess water and keep the cooked double beans aside.
- Add corainder seeds, cumin seeds, red chillis and black pepper in a blender jar.
- Blend all of them together to make a corase powder.
- Add garlic and coconut.
- Blend them again to make a coarse powder or even we can add water and make paste out of it also.
- Heat oil in a thick bottom kadai, add mustard seeds and urad dal.
- When they start spluttering add sliced onion and saute them.
- Once the onion starts changing colour add tomatoes.
- Cook until the tomatoes turn mushy.
- Add turmeric powder and salt.
- Add little water so that tomatoes and onion cooks faster.
- Add cooked double beans and combine them well with the onion tomato masala.
- Let the curry cook for a minute.
- Add the blended masala and also add water if you want gravy consistency.
- Now switch off the flame and transfer the curry to serving bowl.
- Serve double beans curry with roti or chapati. You can enjoy it as an evening snack also if you make dry curry.