French beans patolli
Patolli is a traditional south Indian dish made with a combination of lentils and vegetables such as okra, cluster beans, cabbage, raw banana or French beans. It is very tasty and healthy. In today’s recipe, I have made a French beans patolli.
Ingredients
Method
- Grind the soaked lentils with ginger, dry red chillies, cumin seeds into a coarse paste by adding little water and salt to taste.
- Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. Let them splutter.
- Now add black lentils, asafetida and curry leaves and fry for few seconds.
- Add green chillies, onion and fry till translucent.
- Now add the ground paste and mix well. Cook stirring once in a while for 12-15 minutes.
- The patoli should have dry sauté look like stir fry. This goes very well with steamed rice.