Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, broad beans in coconut curry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Avarakkai or Broad Beans or Flat Beans, also called Papdi in Hindi / Marathi is cooked in a tangy and spicy coconut-tamarind sauce to form a delicious curry that is perfect as a side with rice. Amma always went for any of the other "thengai aracha kuzhambu" ( curries with ground coconut base) than theeyal and I have heard her say that it is. Avarakka Theeyal is delicious Broad Beans in a Coconut Tamarind Sauce.

Broad beans in Coconut curry is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Broad beans in Coconut curry is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have broad beans in coconut curry using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Broad beans in Coconut curry:

1. Take 1 cup broad beans , soaked, sprouted and peeled (instructions below)
2. Prepare 1 tablespoon ghee
3. Prepare 1 teaspoon jeera / cumin seeds
4. Take 6 - 8 curry leaves
5. Get 1 onion medium , chopped
6. Take 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
7. Take 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida
8. Get 1 teaspoon chilli powder
9. Take 1/2 cup water warm
10. Make ready 3 kokum tamarind petals or
11. Prepare to taste salt
12. Prepare 200 ml coconut milk thick
13. Take coriander chopped for garnish

Start by adding the coconut oil to a non stick frying pan and preheat on low. Allow the chia and mustard seeds to heat through until they begin to crackle. Broad beans can sometimes lack a little flavor when simply steamed or boiling, so adding them to a curry is a brilliant way of packing in some punch. Using herbs and spices is amazing for upping your intake of antioxidants and anti-inflammatories - these compounds can have lots of beneficial effects on the body.

Steps to make Broad beans in Coconut curry:

1. To soak, sprout and peel the beans:
2. Wash the val beans and soak it in double amount of water for overnight or 8-10 hours.
3. Drain the water in the morning and wash in again with fresh water.
4. Wrap it in a muslin cloth or keep it in an airtight box and keep it covered in a warm place for atleast 24 hours to sprout well.
5. When the beans are well sprouted, soak them in warm water for half hour to hydrate the beans and ease the peeling.
6. To peel, immerse your hand in the same warm water which you have soaked the beans, hold each val bean between your thumb and index finger, and slide the skin off in water (try not to rupture the sprout) and keep the peeled val bean in a plate. Peeling in water will be easy as compared to in a plate. It's quite easy once you have peeled a few.
7. Once all the val beans are peeled, rinse the beans once and keep aside.
8. To make the curry:
9. On a medium flame, heat ghee in a deep skillet/pan and then add jeera, curry leaves, onion and fry till the onions are translucent.
10. Add turmeric, hing/asafoetida and chilli powder and mix well.
11. Add the val beans now and stir gently to mix it well with spices, keep the flame slow, then add water and kokum/tamarind and salt, then cover for a few minutes so that the val beans are cooked well.
12. You have to keep checking so that the val beans does not turn mushy, when its tender, its just right.
13. Lastly, pour the coconut milk while stirring well (and carefully as the beans are tender), check the consistency and adjust the seasoning. Let it boil for 2 minutes.
14. Garnish with coriander leaves before serving.

If you find a kilo too much work, halve the quantity of broad beans and add some potatoes instead. This broad bean curry tastes amazing with rice or chapatti. Add the salt, garam masala, chilli powder and sugar, and cook for a final minute. Stir in the cream and serve. Add salt and pepper to taste.

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