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Vengayam Avarai Green Beans with Red Onions
Tamil-style green beans stewed with sweet red onion and chiles cut to match the beans, seasoned with popped mustard, urad dal, ground fenugreek and curry leaves, and thickened in seconds with a spoon of rice flour.
- YieldServes 6 as a side
- Hands-on18 min
- Total28 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 2 tbspcanola oil
- 1 tspblack or yellow mustard seeds, whole
- 1 tbspskinned split black lentils (urad dal), picked over for stones
- 100 gred onion, 1 small, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
- 2fresh green Thai, cayenne or serrano chiles, stems removed, sliced on the diagonal into 12 mm pieces, seeds left in
- ½ tspblack or yellow mustard seeds, ground
- ½ tspfenugreek seeds, ground
- ¼ tspground turmeric
- 454 ggreen beans, trimmed, sliced on the diagonal into 12 mm lengths
- 1½ tspcoarse kosher or sea salt
- 11 leavesfresh curry leaves, 10 to 12, medium to large
- 1 tbsprice flour
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