French green beans rice

This recipe comes under travel cooking/ one-pot cooking/ Easy cooking series. I have decided to give it the name salt and pepper series because, in the recent past due to back to back travelling (not that I am complaining here), I had to cook a lot but with very limited resources. I couldn't carry a lot of things and had to rely on just the local supermarket for resources. So what I ended up with is cooking with just salt and pepper. Most of the times I had access to only canned stuff and was a novice in that department. Now, I have explored that world too :) . So the ingredients will include canned stuff.


Ingredients

Canned french green beans                                  1 can
Salt                                                                        As needed
Black pepper powder                                           1.5 tblspns
Basmathi rice                                                        1 cup
Oil                                                                          1 tsp


Method

1. Add oil in the electric cooker and let it heat.
2. Drain the beans and wash it thoroughly
3. When the oil is hot, add drained and washed beans and mix well.
4. Add basmathi rice and add 2 cups of water.
5. Add salt and pepper to it and close the lid and let it cook until done.

French green beans rice is ready to be had with natural yogurt and potato chips (crisps) as side.

Tuvar lilva vengaya sundal/ Tuvar lilva onion sundal

When I was young, my mom used to make fantabulous mochai vengaya sundal. Mochai as everyone knows is very healthy and very rich in iron.  I couldn't find mochai in both UK and US so easily. When I found a packet of frozen tuvar lilva beans, I thought I could replicate the mochai sundal with tuvar lilva beans and it worked wonderfully well.

Ingredients

Frozen tuvar lilva beans                                      1 whole packet
Onion                                                                   1 large
Red chilli powder                                                 1 tsp
Salt                                                                        As required

To temper

Canola oil                                                            1 tsp
Mustard seeds                                                      1/2 tsp
Curry leaves                                                         1 sprig


Method

1. Pressure cook tuvar lilva beans with just the amount of salt for it.
2. Dice onion as small as you can.
3. Heat a stir fry pan on medium heat and add oil and mustard seeds to splutter
4. Add curry leaves to splutter too. Add diced onions. Reduce the heat to low add required amount of salt for just the onion and mix well. Increase the heat to medium.
5. When the onion becomes translucent (like in the first 5 mins), add red chilli powder, mix well and add the cooked drained tuvar lilva beans and mix well too.
6. Leave it on stove for around 5 mins for the flavors to infuse. Remove from heat and the sundal is ready.

Tuvar lilva onion sundal/ Tuvar lilva vengaya sundal is great to be had as such as an evening snack or goes excellent with sambhar saadham, rasam saadham and curd rice too.