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Avarakkai poriyal recipe with step-by-step pics. Avarakkai poriyal is a dry dish made with flat beans, a couple of spices and coconut. It tastes nice as a facet dish with chapati or with rasam-rice or sambar-rice or kulambu-rice or dal-rice. A Vegan and no onion no garlic recipe.

Poriyal is a dry dish from the Tamil Nadu delicacies made with numerous greens. Poriyal is just like a thoran (vegetable stir fry from Kerala delicacies) besides that in a thoran the amount of recent coconut added is extra as in comparison with that of poriyal. Onions are additionally added in a thoran.

There are various variations of creating poriyal and even onions and garlic will be added. This avarakkai poriyal is a no onion no garlic recipe. I additionally cook dinner this dish in coconut oil to provide it an genuine contact. Though, you may also cook dinner it in gingerly oil, sunflower oil or peanut oil.

Poriyal are easy recipes to make however style nice as a facet dish. I make each avarakkai poriyal in addition to avarakkai thoran when these tasty beans are in season. Avarakkai poriyal will be served a facet dish with chapatis in addition to steamed rice accompanied with some sambar, rasam, kulambu or dal. Many of the instances after I make rasam or kuzhambu, I additionally make poriyal.

Avarakkai is the Tamil identify for flat beans, they’re also referred to as area beans or broad beans in English. In different Indian languages, these are generally known as val papdi, valor, sem ki phalli. I’ve already posted a couple of recipes with flat beans earlier like Papdi bhaji and Surti papdi.

Some preparation is required as it is advisable string the bean pods and this takes a while. However the cooking a part of avarakkai poriyal could be very straightforward.

To avoid wasting time you may string the beans first and maintain them within the fridge in a closed container. Subsequent day then chop the beans and use them within the recipe.

Along with the flat beans, the remainder of the components used on this poriyal are additionally simply accessible in any Indian house kitchen.

How you can make Avarakkai Poriyal

1. Firstly rinse 200 grams avarakkai very effectively. Drain all of the water. Then string every flat bean and pull the pods aside. Discard the strings.

You’ll have to open every pod to examine if there’s a worm or a mould in it. Discard the bean if it has a mould or worm in it.

2. Then chop the beans. You possibly can gather a few of all of the opened beans collectively after which chop them on a chopping board. You will want 2.5 cups of chopped avarakkai. Preserve apart.

Tempering for avarakkai poriyal

3. In a pan or kadai, warmth 2 tablespoons of coconut oil or gingelly oil or sunflower oil or peanut oil. Preserve the warmth to a low. Add ½ teaspoon mustard seeds.

4. Let mustard seeds start to crackle. When the mustard seeds start to crackle and splutter, add ½ teaspoon urad dal.

5. Stirring typically fry urad dal on a low warmth.

6. Fry until the urad dal turns golden.

7. Then add 1 inexperienced chilli, chopped or 1 dry crimson chilli (damaged and seeds eliminated) and a pair of pinches asafoetida (hing).

If the pan turns into too sizzling, then you may change off the warmth.

8. Rapidly add 7 to eight small to medium sized curry leaves (entire or chopped). Combine effectively. If utilizing, crimson chillies then they need to change colour.

9. Now add the chopped avarakkai.

10. Add salt as per style.

11. Combine very effectively.

Making avarakkai poriyal

12. Add ½ cup water or add as required. Combine once more effectively.

13. Cowl the pan with a lid and on a low to medium-low warmth cook dinner the avarakkai.

14. In between do stir and examine if the water has not dried up. If the water is much less or evaporated, you may add some extra water. Stir after which proceed to cowl and cook dinner.

15. Prepare dinner until the avarakkai beans are tender and softened. As soon as the flat beans are effectively cooked, then there needs to be no water within the avarakkai poriyal earlier than you begin with the following step. So cook dinner with out lid until all of the water dries up. Stir often. 

It can take approx a complete of 20 to 22 minutes for the beans to cook dinner on a medium-low flame. Cooking time may even fluctuate with the standard of beans, sort of pan used and depth of the warmth.

16. Then add 3 tablespoons coconut. You may as well add 2 to three tablespoons of desiccated coconut flakes as a substitute of recent coconut. Frozen grated coconut can be added.

17. Combine very effectively and saute for a minute on low warmth.

18. Serve avarakkai poriyal sizzling or heat as a facet dish with chapatis or with sambar-rice, rasam-rice, kulambu-rice or dal-rice. Whereas serving you may also garnish with some chopped coriander leaves.

Some extra tasty Poriyal recipes I’ve shared earlier are:

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This Avarakkai poriyal submit from the weblog archives, first printed in February 2019 has been republished and up to date on February 2023.