This is a simple and healthy side dish for rice. In this recipe, I used fresh green beans from our garden. Cutting this into small pieces will take some time, but you can use frozen french cut beans as well.

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Ingredients

• Beans (cut into pieces) ——– 2 cups
• Paruppu usili idly —————— 1
• Grated coconut ———————- 1/4 cup
• Turmeric powder ——————- a pinch
• Salt to taste
• For Tempering
  • Cumin seeds ——————– 1 tsp
  • Urad dal —————————- 1 tsp
  • Mustard seeds —————— 1 tsp
  • Curry leaf ————————– 1 spring

How to make

• Place a pan on medium heat stove
• Add oil and mustard seeds
• Once it crackles, add the cumin seeds, urad dal and curry leaves
• Add the cut beans and stir fry until the beans becomes tender (about 7 minutes)
• Add the salt, turmeric powder and crushed paruppu usili
• Stir for 5 more minutes
• Then add the grated coconut, stir for another 2 minutes and switch off the stove
• Now the tasty beans paruppu usili should be ready to serve

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Note: While adding salt, consider that the paruppu usili already has salt and the beans needs only a little bit of salt.