Thursday, May 21, 2009

Carrot N French Beans Thoran

Simple side dish prepared with carrots, french beans, soaked moongdal and spiced with green chillies...this thoran/poriyal is one of our favourite side dish, which goes perfectly as side dish with sambhar, rasam and curd rice..its just take few minutes to cook and very healthy thoran too, i do the same with carrots, cabbage,french beans, zucchinis,cauliflower etc.. the choice of veggies to make out this simple dish depends on the veggies i can get from the farmer's markets, this is our usual side dish i do atleast twice a week for our lunch...sometimes i used to add cooked rice and turned this side dish as rice dish by just adding garam masala and pepper powder...This is how i feed my family members whenever they get bored of usual dishes..This healthy and colourful thoran goes to  Sanghi's FIL-Carrots ....

1cup Carrot pieces
1+1/2cups French beans pieces
1no Onion (chopped)
3nos Green Chillies (slit opened)
1/4tsp Mustard seeds
1/4tsp Urad dal
1/4cup Moongdal (soaked for half an hour)
1/4cup Grated coconut pieces
Oil
Salt
5nos Curry leaves
Heat oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds, urad dal and let them splutters..add the chopped onions and slit opened green chillies and cook until the onions turns transculent..add the carrot and french bean pieces and stir cook everything until the veggies turns bit tender, add immediately the soaked moongdal to the cooked veggies with salt and curry leaves and cook in simmer..springle some water and stir occasionally until the veggies get well cooked..add finally the grated coconut and toss gently until everything get well mixed..
Serve hot!

19 comments:

VIDYA VENKY said... Reply To This Comment

thatz a very nice recipe priya

Padma said... Reply To This Comment

Very nutritious with dhal and veggies :)

Nandinis food said... Reply To This Comment

Nutritious dish! Good for health.

Vikis Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Thoran looks delighting.

Ramya Vijaykumar said... Reply To This Comment

Very healthy one Priya!! Beans and Carrots r a great combo!!!

Pooja said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and nice dish priya..

Pavithra Elangovan said... Reply To This Comment

Very nutritious and delectable!!

Pooja said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy n nutritious with veggies and dal! As you said I too love to have with rice and sambar!

chef and her kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

I love Beans n carrot combo..perfect for rice..

Vibaas said... Reply To This Comment

never tried this combo before. nice recipe.

Deepthi Shankar said... Reply To This Comment

lovely thoran there Priya

Uma Thirumurugan said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and colourful Thoran Priya...

Valarmathi Sanjeev said... Reply To This Comment

Never tried with moondal. carrot and beans are great combo. Looks yummy.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Nutritious and delicious dish. Two in one.

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

Nice and healthy dish Priya :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

perfect simple and yummy recipe

Cham said... Reply To This Comment

Would be great with some tangy gravy!

Raks said... Reply To This Comment

I like to have this mixed with rice and ghee:)

CurryLeaf said... Reply To This Comment

I too make similar one.Love yours as well.