Beans and coconut stir fry aka beans thoran, No oil

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 The esoteric thoran dish is a typical Malayali dish. It is prepared in all Keralite households and served with red rice. It is usually cooked in coconut oil. The important ingredient is coconut, freshly scraped. My dish differs from the staple salver with its exclusion of oil. Here goes the steps..

 



Constituents...

Beans, haricot - 250g

Coconut, grated - 100g

Shallots - 2

Green chili - 1

Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Water - 1/4 cup


Recipe...

Wash the beans well. Trim the ends of beans and chop into small pieces. Cast into a deep-bottomed steel saucepan along with water. Allow the beans to soften on slow heat for about 10 minutes.

Slice shallots and throw into a small blender jar. Also, fling in green chili, cumin seeds, salt, turmeric powder, coconut flakes and a splash of water. Grind for 5 seconds.

Separate some of the beans towards the sides of pan and spoon in the crunched coconut into the center of the pan. Cover the coconut potpourri with the cooked beans and allow to cook on slow heat for 5 to 7 minutes. The coconut mishmash will cook in the steam produced from the wet and softened beans surrounding it. Give a good stir, mix and turn off heat. Enjoy.

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