Beans Upkari (String Beans Stir-Fry)



For some menstruation of my life, I lived alongside my uncle Nammi mam in addition to Lata aunty. They bring a fix whom nosotros fondly telephone telephone "Namma",who cooks fantabulous Konkani meals. Anything she makes tastes delicious. She tin flame infuse deliciousness into the simplest of dishes. One of the dishes she made is greenish beans upkari. The beans are chopped fine in addition to cooked to a crisp finish. They expect similar brilliant greenish emeralds in addition to sense of savor great. Her dish calls for to a greater extent than oil. Being wellness conscious, mine has lilliputian stone oil in addition to at times I besides garnish it alongside freshly grated coconut. I absolutely honey the sense of savor of freshly grated kokosnoot in addition to notice reasons to set it inwards my dishes :).This is a bully side-dish for weeknight dinner.Here's the recipe:

Servings: 4


Ingredients:


Fresh greenish beans( string beans) : 1 lb (450 grams). Chopped into 0.5 cms length pieces.
Coconut oil: 1 tbsp( tin flame purpose 1/2 tbsp for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than healthier version.) ( Any cooking stone oil tin flame travel used, I prefer to fix inwards coconut/ olive oil).
Mustard seeds: 1/4tsp
Dried Red chillies: ii nos
Freshly grated coconut: 1 tbsp ( optional)
Salt to taste

Method:


Heat a sauté pan/ wok on medium heat. Add stone oil in addition to mustard seeds. 

Once they splutter, add together the crimson chillies in addition to the chopped greenish beans. Add salt. 

Reduce the flame, encompass in addition to fix until done, roughly xv minutes, sautéing inwards between.

Note: If cooking inwards India, yous tin flame add together 1/2 loving cup H2O land cooking. Vegetables inwards the US tend to bring higher H2O content, so additional H2O is non required land cooking. If inwards India( or yous are inwards a rush),the inwards a higher house dish tin flame travel made inwards a pressure level pan. After adding the water, permit it come upward to a boil, instantly encompass the cooker lid, permit it fix until yous larn ii whistles. Open the cooker lid precisely afterwards the hissing stops completely.

Garnish alongside grated coconut( optional)



Serve hot alongside rice.

Cooking made easy:


The inwards a higher house dish tin flame travel made alongside several other vegetables similar potatoes, Chinese potatoes, okra, long beans (alsande) to mention a few.It is quick, tardily to brand in addition to healthy.

Tip for salubrious living:


In recent years, in that place was a huge uproar that coconut, kokosnoot stone oil should travel express inwards your diet every bit it is a saturated obese in addition to would increase the cholesterol inwards the trunk in addition to clog your arteries. Many people either switched to "healthy" oils similar canola or corn. I bring ever believed that the means our ancestors lived was a healthier way. They lived closer o nature, in addition to had healthier eating habits. So I wondered could all our previous generations who cooked precisely inwards kokosnoot stone oil travel all wrong? In fact, my woman parent precisely eats nutrient that has been cooked precisely inwards kokosnoot stone oil . Any other stone oil upsets her tummy in addition to makes her sick. We instantly sympathize that the whole"coconut stone oil is bad for you" was a myth propagated yesteryear the big companies who wanted to promote canola in addition to corn stone oil industries. In fact canola in addition to corn production is a big industry! Today, wellness proponents are strongly promoting the purpose of kokosnoot stone oil in addition to sing praises of the wellness benefits of kokosnoot . People are fifty-fifty encouraged to consume dry out kokosnoot pulp every bit a snack! 

Coconut stone oil manifestly has medium chain obese acids that are salubrious in addition to whose breakdown helps the liver burn downward give away energy inwards an efficient manner.It besides acts every bit an anti-oxidant inwards the body.

References: 
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/surprising-health-benefits-coconut-oil
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/coconut-oil-and-health
http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/



Food for thought:


What goes around, comes around.(unknown)