Preparation time:10 minutes
Cook time : 20 minutes
Yield: 4 serving
Ingredients
3 1/2 cup Ammarakai/ Guar beans (chopped finely )
1 1/2 Onion ( chopped finely)
1/2 Coconut
1/2 teaspoon Red chili powder
1 teaspoon Cumin Powder
1 1/4 teaspoon Salt
3/4 teaspoon Mustard seeds
1 tablespoon Urad dal/ split black gram
2 no Red chilies
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 tablespoon Coconut oil
1/2 cup water
2 sprig curry leaves.
How I made
- Wash and clean the guar beans cut the head and tail and the cut them into fine pieces and set aside, chop the onion and set aside.
- Heat coconut oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal and halved red chilies, when mustard seeds starts splutter add chopped onion, guar beans
- To this add turmeric powder, salt and water and close the lid cook for until entire water is evaporates and beans gets cooked.
- Then add coconut, cumin powder and red chili powder and mix once and cook for another 3 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and enjoy with rice and gravy.
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This is Swathi ( Ambujom Saraswathy) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
i make it in similar way swathi.. nice write up on cluster beans dear..
Though I don’t like this veggie very much,I have heard lots about the health benefits dear..looks delish in thoran form,will try sometime!!
lovely post, i love this thoran for any type of variety rice.
Healthy stir fry
love veg stir-fry’s looks yum… love to have it with rice side
first time here, this is one of my fav stir fry.
you just made the perfect way 🙂
Folowing you :)Happy if u visit my space sometime 🙂
one of my favorite vegs, now knowing this will eat more.
Delicious and healthy stir fry. My mom makes this similarly.
Love the fry. I make it in similar way.
Thanks for sharing the recipe as well as the very useful information about guar gum.
Love this, we add a little chana dal to this..
Delicious and healthy thoran. Never knew that guar is used in drilling for oil.
Deepa
Sounds very interesting! I love your blog cause you are constantly using ingredients I have never used or tried before. Can’t wait to try this 🙂
Happy Blogging!
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Swathi beautiful writeup,very informative..I make this only occasionally as it is bitter in taste,but from now on I am going to make this often,never knew it had so many health benefits.Thoran looks delicious.
Yummy kothavarangaai poriyal, my fav too…gud to know more about guar, nice write up n very informative post Swathi…
u have taken lot of effort for this post..hats off to u.I am not a big fan of this but my hubby is 🙂
Lovely post..fiber rich veggie…nice presentation..
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Beautiful clicks.Looks delicious
I make spicy version out of it.. this version looks good too
Wow!! Lovely dish!! Awesome snaps! Thanx for sharing!!
I never used to like this veggie…but now a dys…cos it’s much healthy veggie…trying to get into recipes..thnsk for sharing…
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hi dear,
tons of thanks for posting this..i tasted this veggie from one Andhra restaurant but never tried at home since i do not have any idea of how to cook this :)gonna try this soon
Delicious kothavarangai thoran..yUM with sambar rice
Yaa its a wonderful vegetable. Luv the recipe.
swathi… we see this beans but never by, especially because it has the “aaru” on the sides, making it difficult to eat, but after reading this, i think i should start including it into our diet… lovely mezhukupuratti, beautiful snaps… 🙂
Very healthy thoran dear…
nice info about guar gum,thanks for sharing…I don’t like this beans because of the little bitter taste, but my hubby likes it. we too call this veg as seeni avarakai…but some people from chennai told me that they call it as kotthavarankai…
Delicious and healthy stir fry….Never knew that guar is used in drilling for oil.
I have never tasted this ammarakai before…looks perfect for thoran…
so authentic stir fry:)
looks very tempting!!!
This looks amazing!
Definitely a millionaire of the food world 🙂
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Hi Swathi,
A millionaire dish!… Sounds amazing to me. I have heard of the interesting properties of guar beans… This looks great to me.
Zoe
this is goru chikkudu/gokara kaya in telugu….miss dis here.amma makes dis often.u rs luks so tasty..nice pics.
this is goru chikkudu/gokara kaya in telugu….miss dis here.amma makes dis often.u rs luks so tasty..nice pics.
Nice detailed post. I love this veggie..but my hubby hates it..I make stir fry sometimes and its quite similar to your method..
Wow…looks delicious da….nice presentation… 🙂
Very tempting stir-fry Swathi. Would like to have it with plain rice…yummy.
We usually make only usili using this veggie…never tried it as a thoran….Never heard about these interesting facts about this beans..Nice clicks Swathi
I always make usili with this veggie…never tried it as thoran…Never knew of all these interesting facts about these beans…Very attractive pictures Swathi
That sounds most tasty. Thanks for sharing with MLLA.
So good to learn about these beans Swathi! You turned them into something so delicious and healthy! Your pictures make me want to dive right in. Thanks for all the comments you left me!
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This is my hubby’s fav,yummy n helthy side dish
nice thoran Swathi. Wish I had a plate of rice this time. Nothing would have left unattended 🙂
Thanks for sharing this.
Wish you a happy weekend.
Regards,
Abhialsh
Looks yummy. Though I have cooked this vegetable n number of times, I had no idea it has so many other uses!
This recipe is definitely a winner! I’ve pinned it.