Beans Poriyal is one of the common Poriyal in South India made using green beans, grated coconut along with tempering. It's easy to make, healthy and tasty accompaniment to most of the rice varities. It's low calorie vegetable and good for all ages.
Beans Poriyal | Beans curry is one of the common Poriyal / Curry made in Tamil Nadu as an accompaniment. Poriyal / Curry / Thoran are stir-fry vegetables with coconut (usually) and an aromatic tempering using mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chili. In Kerala (Thoran) usually the shallots / onion also added to this curry.
Poriyal can be made with any vegetables like carrot, cabbage, raw banana or even asparagus. These are made with very less oil and spices and mostly steam cooked hence very healthy.
Beans is rich in Protein. Non-Vegeterians have lot of options to consume protein rich food. But Vegeterians have very limited variety and beans is one among them. This is one of the conventional method of making beans poriyal. We can also make Beans Paruupu Usili and Beans Poricha kootu. A simple beans poriyal is a very good accompaniment for any South Indian Kuzhambu varieties. You can use any type of beans for making this poriyal
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian, Tamil Brahmin, Tamil Nadu
Equipments Needed
Heavy Bottomed Pan
Prep Time: 10minutes
Cook Time: 20minutes
Total Time: 30minutes
Servings: 4people
Calories: 126kcal
Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam
Beans Poriyal is one of the common Poriyal in South India made using green beans, grated coconut along with tempering. It's easy to make, healthy and tasty accompaniment to most of the rice varities. It's low calorie vegetable and good for all ages.
Heat the oil in the pan, add mustard seeds and when the mustard seeds starts to sputter add the urad dal and fry till it becomes golden brown. Add broken chilli.
Add the chopped beans. Sprinkle some water and add turmeric powder along with salt. Cover the pan and allow the beans to cook completely. Intermittently give it a good mix.
Approximately in about 10 minutes the beans will get cooked. When the beans is fully cooked and becomes soft and tender, add grated coconut and mix it well. You may want to saute for a few more seconds to ensure that there are no residual water in the pan. Finally remove from flame
The yummy beans poriyal is ready to serve
Notes
You can cook Carrot, Beetroot, Cabbage and other vegetables in the same way
For spice, you can add a teaspoon of sambar powder or chili powder. I made it mild.
For Thoran, usually onion will also be added to the vegetable. You can mix onion with this thorn. I made it as 'no onion no garlic'.
Nutritional Info
Nutrition Facts
Beans Poriyal | Beans Thoran
Amount Per Serving (0.5 cup)
Calories 126Calories from Fat 30
% Daily Value*
Fat 3.3g5%
Saturated Fat 0.7g4%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.4g
Cholesterol 2.1mg1%
Sodium 287mg12%
Potassium 292mg8%
Carbohydrates 19g6%
Fiber 4.7g20%
Sugar 3.9g4%
Protein 6.5g13%
Vitamin A 5.5IU0%
Vitamin C 29mg35%
Calcium 4.3mg0%
Iron 8.5mg47%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Method with step by step pictures :
Wash and finely chop the Beans and keep it aside
Heat the oil in the pan, add mustard seeds and when the mustard seeds starts to sputter add the urdhal and fry till it becomes golden brown. Add broken chilli and then add chopped beans
Sprinkle some water and add turmeric powder along with salt and allow the beans to cook completely
When the beans is fully cooked and becomes soft and tender, add grated coconut and mix it well and remove from flame
Im a hard core carnivorous. I was introduced to brahmin food in the Ramanashram and simply developed a liking for the food.
When I cook green vegetables, they loose color easily. What should I do to keep it in green color.
Hi, adding turmeric keeps the green vegetables look evergreen. Turmeric plays the role of keeping the color.
How to prepare kothavarangai poricha. kootu or kuzhambu
Hi Dhanalakshmi, I used to make Kothavarangai Thengaipal Poricha Kootu. You can get the recipe from this link https://www.subbuskitchen.com/kothavarangaicluster-beans-thengaipaal/
Hi! Can I use frozen cut french beans for poriyal?
yes sure
yummy….post garlic and onion combination
Will do. Thank you 😊🙏