Saturday, May 22, 2010

Yardlong Beans Thoran

It has been ages i had the yardlong beans as any dish, today we went to Indian groceries, i saw these green fresh yardlong beans laying silently, i picked immediately as its kinda hard for us to get these sort of green veggies rarely nowadays, needless to say that am so happy to buy these yardlong beans as i love them as thoran, this veggies get ready really quick and the thoran with these veggies tastes awesome with any rice dish, eventhough my favourite goes for rasam rice, both rasam and this thoran tastes prefectly delicious and for me its one of my comforting food...This yardlong beans are known as asparagus beans,snake beans also as chinese long beans, this a climbing plant which produce long pods can be measure 14to 30inches..Yard-long beans belong to the same plant family as the blackeyed peas. In fact, in parts of China the bean is allowed to mature until full-fledged peas are produced in the pod. Yard-longs have a flavor similar to but not as sweet as that of a green beans, with hints of its black-eyed-pea lineage. The texture of the pod is more pliable and not as crisp as that of a green bean. Yard-long beans are most often cut into 2-inch lengths and sautéed or stir fried. Overcooking will make them mushy. These beans are rich in vitamin A and contain a fair amount of vitamin C.

Yardlong Beans Thoran

1/4kg Yardlong beans (chopped)
1no Onion (chopped)
2nos Green chillies (slit opened)
1/2tsp Mustard seeds+Urad dal
Few curry leaves
Salt
Oil

To Grind:
3tbsp Grated coconut
3nos Dry red chillies
1tbsp Cumin seeds

Cook the chopped yardlong beans in microwave safe bowl with enough salt and 1cup water for 10minutes in high in microwave oven..drain the excess of water and keep aside...meanwhile grind the coconut, dry red chillies and cumin seeds as coarse paste..Heat enough oil and add the mustard seeds,curry leaves and urad dal, let them splutters..add  the chopped onions and slit opened green chillies, sauté until the onions turns transculent, now add the grounded coarse paste cook it for few minutes...finally add the already cooked yardlong beans and salt, cook everything in simmer..

Serve hot as side dish!

29 comments:

PranisKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

wow priya its one of our favorite thoran..one of the veggies i always prefer to buy from ingro.very healthy one.looks delicious.its best com with morucurry and rice

Chitra said... Reply To This Comment

very good recipe. Thank you.

Sushma Mallya said... Reply To This Comment

Nice & simple one..

Angie's Recipes said... Reply To This Comment

How did you manage cooking and posting everyday? wow...impressed. Already 36 entries!

Uma said... Reply To This Comment

Nice looking dish. Simple and delicious :)

Sayali said... Reply To This Comment

I love these beans

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Priya,

I love yardlong beans thoran. Nice one. It will be good with any curry and rice.

Krishnaveni said... Reply To This Comment

healthy and delicious thoran Priya

Umm Mymoonah said... Reply To This Comment

Easy to cook,delicious and healthy recipe. Looks yummy.

indosungod said... Reply To This Comment

The thoran looks absolutely delicious. I had them growing in my garden last year and the were a great addition to any dish.

These beans are so much more tastier than the green beans IMHO.

Meena said... Reply To This Comment

My husband just loves this thoran...priya...did you see my mail, dear???

Life is beautiful !!! said... Reply To This Comment

Your post is going to make me look for some. It has been ages since I had it :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely thoran Priya, simply great !!!

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

This is my Dad's fav. Never made it but thanks Priya now I can surprise my Dad !!
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

i never buy this beans..but should try it sometime..

Padhu Sankar said... Reply To This Comment

Simple and delicious curry!!

Ms.Chitchat said... Reply To This Comment

Nice and healthy thoran.

priya said... Reply To This Comment

hi dear,

There is an award waiting for u in my blog!!..please collect it!

Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) said... Reply To This Comment

i love beans..just steamed,in pasta,in rice,as veggie...healthy ...made 2day itself..wil post my version soon...looks green and lovely

Finla said... Reply To This Comment

Ilove these beans too, and it is really hard for us to get them too. This just looks so so droolie delcious.

My Kitchen Antics said... Reply To This Comment

they are a personal fav of ours too..but like u said hard to find.

Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

super thoran!!

Parita said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious thoran! simple and yummy!

GEETHA ACHAL said... Reply To This Comment

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SpicyTasty said... Reply To This Comment

simple yet delicious one. Nice recipe. Awesome click..

divya said... Reply To This Comment

Easy to cook,delicious and healthy recipe. Looks yummy.

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

Nice dish with yardlong beans Priya..must be very flavorful and tasty :)

Shabitha Karthikeyan said... Reply To This Comment

One of my fav too..The grated coconut would have added a great flavor !!!

AJ said... Reply To This Comment

I love these beans. Sadly, they hardly ever show up in my grocery - and when they do, they don't look too good:(