Avantika's Kitchen Delights: Aloo Beans Sabji / French Beans Potatoes dry vegetable

This is a very simple dry sabji made stir frying Potatoes, French Beans and basic Indian dry spices. It tastes awesome even being so simple. Adding Potatoes to any vegetable makes it even more delicious, so I have paired beans with Potatoes. As this sabji is quick to prepare, it can be one for those who are busy moms, working women and bachelors.

INGREDIENTS :

(1) 750 gms of French beans (Washed and cut into 1 cm sized pieces)

(2) 4 tablespoon of Vegetable / Cooking oil, preferably Mustard oil

(3) Half teaspoon of Mustard seeds

(4) Half teaspoon of Cumin seeds / Jeera

(5) 1/4 teaspoon of Turmeric powder

(6) 1 teaspoon of Red Chilli powder

(7) 1 teaspoon of Coriander powder

(8) 3/4 teaspoon of Garam Masala powder

(9) Half teaspoon of Cumin powder

(10) Salt to taste

(11) Water for cooking

Cuisine : North Indian

Serves : 4 persons

Time taken : 15 mins to prepare and 15 minutes to cook = 30 minutes.

PREPARATION :

Chop three medium sized Potatoes into bite sized pieces.

Cut the ends of all the beans from both sides and cut the beans into 1 cm sized pieces.

Set all the above ingredients together.

METHOD :

(1) Heat 4 tablespoon of vegetable / cooking / Mustard oil in a kadhai / wok.

Add half teaspoon of Mustard seeds to the warm oil and allow them to splutter.

At the same time, add half teaspoon of Cumin seeds / Jeera and allow them to sizzle.

(2) Now, add chopped beans and potatoes and one glass of water. Mix well.

(3) Add Salt and basic Indian dry spices like Turmeric powder, Red chilli powder, Garam masala powder and Coriander / Dhania powder. You may add Cumin / Jeera powder too. As I did not have it, I did not add it. Adding whole Cumin seeds during the first step did the work for me.

Mix well.

(4) Cover it with the lid and let it cook on a medium gas flame till they become soft and tender. Keep stirring in between so that they don’t stick to the bottom of the kadhai / wok.