Guaar or gavar or Cluster beans,is one green veggie that my son is not very fond of.Still when i add potatoes to the guaar,he eats it without any fuss.Personally i too find it very bland unless i make it with potato.The school exams of my son had forced my blogging to take a backseat.So no Blah Blah today(phew !I can imagine the relieved face of yours)
So lets straight away jump to today’s recipe!
Ingredients:
- Guaar(clusterbeans) 250 gms
- Potato 2 medium sized
- Onion 1 medium sized
- Tomato 2 small
- Green chillies 2(or use as many you normally do)
- Ginger a bit
- Garlic 5-6 cloves
- Turmeric powder 1/4 tspn
- Coriander powder 1 tspn
- Salt as per taste
- Oil 1tbspn(or less)
Method:
- Wash guaar thoroughly,and trim both tips of beans
- Cut every bean into small (1 inch) pieces
- Peel and dice potato into big chunks
- Wash and add salt to potatoes,keep aside for 5 minutes(if you are not using it soon then add water to them to avoid blackening of chunks)
- Take 1 tbspn of oil in a pressure cooker,and heat it
- Now pound ginger garlic(or even grind it) and add it to oil.saute it for few seconds till they slightly change color
- Chop the onion to fine pieces and add it in cooker
- Saute onions till very light brown ,and add chopped tomatoes and chillies
- Add guaar ,potato(first wash them to get rid of extra salt) ,salt,turmeric powder and coriander powder(remember to add salt with caution as potatoes are already salted)
- Saute them properly for a min or two,then add 1-2 tbspn of water,and close the lid
- Wait for 2 whistles,then simmer it on low flame for about 2 minutes
- Check out whether potatoes are cooked,otherwise cook them further(one more whistle of cooker)
- It is a dry Subzi ,so put it on flame till all the water is evaporated
- Serve it with roti,or plain boiled rice
And now some Sweet dhoklas for Zlamushka, for her Tried and Tasted event ,featuring lovely Sia of Monsoonspice,this month.
Sia highly recommended this recipe for Khaman Dhokla .I followed the recipe exactly and i was surprised with the results.First time i made it,they didn’t turned out very spongy(as u can see in the pic)..But the reason was that Soda bi carb was not very fresh.But they tasted simply lovely !Second time i made it at my neighbour’s place and this time i added a small pack of ENO FRUIT SALT,and yeah they indeed turned out very very fluffy.Sadly i didn’t had a camera at that moment,so for now kindly bear with this pic.
Hi Alka, I can never have Guaar with or without potatoes. But bhaji looks good.
The dokhlas look fluffy enough to me…Nice entry
I have never had cluster beans curry with potatoes must be yum .. the pic looks amazing .. I too add a pinch of Eno in the dhokla N I love the results
alka, dhokla is so good…fluffy and i wud like to grab a few
guaar is a good recipe too…in india we used to make a lot of cluster beans recipe but after coming to US it is very rare mainly becoz of the cost of cluster beans…..
thanks for the receipe kindly send me some more like sindhi curry ,maath,mutton
Hi Alka
This is best Sindhi foodie site I have seen. I love to cook but sometime it is boring too….
Thanks for Bean cluster veggie…it remind me about my mom who is in India.
I would love to see some Navratri special….specially when you cant eat onion and garlic if you are fasting during Navratras. Along with that some special colums on Sindhi Festive Cooking !!!
Thanks again
Kamlesh
its great, i tried it is really tasty n dhokla also
thks for the great contribution, keep it up:)
plz try to send more recepie of guaar
Its great,KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
GOD BLESS YOU
Never made guar with potatoes – I normally make it with coarsely powdered peanuts and tamarind or just plain fried. Will try it your way if I find a frozen packet of Guar on my next trip to the Indian grocery store.
Both the dishes look amazing – yes the dhoklas don’t look as holey but they still look great! Pictures look great, gavar made this way is my favourite too!
wow..lovely pictures as usual alka…so delicious to see..
Hi alka,
Thank u very much for visting my blog.coming to ur dhoklas r really aewsome and it is perfect pic…
Dhoklas look yummy,they are so fluffy too.
Hi!
Excellent version of cooking Guaar ,havent tried seems interesting,I really appreciate to share the receipe ,do suggest howto make malporas,Palan tol
Best Wishes N God Bless
ChampsC
Guaar with aloo ,i’d eat that with rice and sambhar
Heyl Alka, visiting ur blog after a long time…must say you have got some really fabulous recipes here…the list is too long….will be coming back for more:)
hey yummy dhoklas!!!