Long beans sabzi recipe - dry vegetable dish that goes perfect with roti or phulka. It is healthy and easy to make.
Long beans are also known as chawli or lobia ki phali or yardlong beans. This chawli ki sabzi recipe is very simple and requires very minimal ingredients. The spices used in this recipe are very basic and found in every Indian household pantry.
The addition of ajwain or carom seeds give different taste to the sabzi. We are not adding much spices here, so the taste of long beans are at max. This long beans sabzi is not like other sabzi recipes which is flavored with garam masala.
Check out other sabzi recipes
Parwal ki sabzi // Gawar sabzi // Aloo beans // Karela sabji
Step By Step Photo Instructions:
1) Wash or rinse the long beans well.
2) Remove the head and tail part and discard them. Chop them into small pieces (about ¼ inch long). Work with 4-5 beans at a time. It will save your time.
3) Heat the oil in a pan on medium heat. Once hot add mustard seeds. Let them pop.
4) Then add cumin seeds and ajwain. Let them sizzle a bit.
5) Then add turmeric powder and hing.
6) Immediately add chopped long beans.
7) Mix well.
8) Then add salt, red chili powder and coriander powder.
9) Mix well. So all the masala and oil is coated to the beans.
10) Cover the pan with lid. Use the lid which has rim around the edges. Pour half glass of water on the lid. This water will generated the steam and vegetables will get cooked.
11) Cook till beans are cooked and tender. Do stir once or twice in between to make sure that it is not sticking to the pan. During the cooking process, if water on the lid dries out. Then add splash or more water and continue cooking.
12) Lastly squeeze fresh lemon juice. Stir well and turn off the stove.
Long beans sabzi is ready to serve. If not serving right away then keep it covered. So sabzi stays warm till the time of serving.
Serving suggestion: chawli ki sabzi is best served with phulka or roti. It can be served as a side dish with your dal-rice.
Did you try this long beans sabzi recipe? I’d love to hear about it! Leave a review in the comment section below.
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Long Beans Sabzi
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Oil
- ¼ teaspoon Mustard seeds
- ½ teaspoon Cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon Ajwain (Carom seeds)
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- a pinch Hing (Asafoetida)
- 2 ½ cups Long beans (Chawli or lobia ki phalli) chopped
- 1 ½ teaspoon Red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
Instructions
- Wash or rinse the long beans well.
- Remove the head and tail part and discard them.
- Chop them into small pieces (about ¼ inch long). Work with 4-5 beans at a time. It will save your time.
- Heat the oil in a pan on medium heat.
- Once hot add mustard seeds. Let them pop.
- Then add cumin seeds and ajwain. Let them sizzle a bit.
- Then add turmeric powder and hing.
- Immediately add chopped long beans. Mix well.
- Then add salt, red chili powder and coriander powder. Mix well. So all the masala and oil is coated to the beans.
- Cover the pan with lid. Use the lid which has rim around the edges. Pour half glass of water on the lid.
- Cook till beans are cooked and tender. Do stir once or twice in between. During the cooking process, if water on the lid dries out. Then add splash or more water and continue cooking.
- Lastly squeeze fresh lemon juice.
- Stir well and turn off the stove.
Rekha
Very delicious and easy to make. It was liked by everybody at my home. Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Kanan
Good to hear that everyone enjoyed. Thank you Rekha for positive feedback
Anjana
Thanks for this Kanan. This type of sabzi is very Good on busy weekday evenings. And with phulka and salad this is great for lunchbox. In fact if you have any lunchbox recipes, pl share those. It would be good to have some healthy lunchbox options
Kanan
True Anjana, it is perfect for lunch box.
Hubby takes lunch box to office only 4 days. So I usually pack him, roti-sabzi-kachumber and pulao/rice with raita or plain yogurt alternately. I pack one dabba with fruit, so he can have snack around 4 or 5.
I know it is repetitive, but it works for him. Monday - roti, dry sabzi, kachumber. Tuesday - vagharelo bhaat and plain yogurt. Wednesday same as Monday. Thursday - pulao or capsicum rice with onion-tomato raita.
Other option is stuffed paratha and raita. But for me its little time consuming. As having full time job, I don't get that much time in the morning.