Anyway, this beans mezhukkupuratti is not just any mezhukkupuratti. This is Pennamma chechy's recipe. Pennamma chechy was my best friend's maid. Yeah, I will give you a minute to figure that out.
Ok so, Deepa, my BFF, had a maid called Pennamma chechy, a typical Catholic lady who cooked amazing Kerala food and each time I eat at Deepa's place, there's always mezhukkupuratti and it's always always yummy. Once I asked her for the recipe and since then, I have never made mezhukkupuratti any other way. You may also wish to check out this carrot beetroot stir fry and stir-fried jackfruit seeds (chakka kuru)
Beans Mezhukkupuratti
Serves: 2
Ingredients:
1 cup French beans, cut into ½" pieces
1 small onion, thinly sliced (optional)
8-10 shallots (also called sambar onion)
2 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon red chilli powder
¼ teaspoon jeera / jeerakam
1 tablespoon oil
½ teaspoon mustard seeds
A pinch of turmeric
A few curry leaves
Salt to taste
Instructions:
1. Heat oil and add the mustard seeds and jeera. When the seeds pop, add the onions (if using), beans and the curry leaves.
2. Lower fire to sim and stir fry the beans until almost cooked. This will take about 12-15 minutes.
3. Grind the shallots and garlic with the turmeric powder and add to the cooked beans. Increase the heat a bit and fry, stirring well, until the shallot-garlic paste is golden brown.
4. Add salt and chilly powder. Fry for another minute.
Serve hot with steamed rice and any coconut based gravy, like thella pulusu or theeyal.
Rice Palette
This looks great! I'd like to thank your friend's maid for showing you this recipe so that you can share it to us 😉
Parita
Stir fried french beans looks very delicious and inviting!
Nags
Asha, adding coconut would make this more like thoran, the idea is to make a coconut-less side dish 🙂
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
Lovely recipe, very new and looks simply great, good pic 🙂
Asha
Sprinkle some fresh grated coconut on top and mix. It's divine to eat as side dish with Yogurt, looks delicious.
Vrinda
My fav with rice...yumm
Sanjeeta kk
Quite difficult to pronounce the name, but the recipe is easy and healthy too.
Sukanya Ramkumar
Nice and healthy recipe. Looks so good. YUM!
Sharmilee! :)
Havent tried anything other than the simple poriyal...this sounds interesting with garlic and jeera
RAKS KITCHEN
Love the last picture,simply gorgeous! Love the recipe too!