Stir Fried Long Beans with Coconut

Ingredients

10 - 12  long beans

2 tablespoons of scraped coconut
4  pcs of dry chilies
½ in of ginger
2 sprigs of curry leaves
½ teaspoon of mustard seeds
½ teaspoon of cumin seeds
Salt
2 tablespoon of oil

Preparation

1. Cut the long beans into desired size.

2. Deseed the dry chilies and cut them into 2 or 3.
3. Cut the ginger into strips.

Method

1. Add some oil to a pot and add the dry chilies, mustard and cumin seeds. Sauté for a minute.

2. Add in the ginger and curry leaves and continue to sauté till there is a nice fragrance.







3. Drop the long beans into the pot and add some salt to it. Fry for a minute.

4. Add the scraped coconut and stir well to evenly coat the long
beans with the coconut.

5. Keep stirring to prevent the coconut from getting burnt.

 6. Frying for 2-3 minutes should be enough unless you like the coconut to be a little brown. Then you need to fry for another minute or two.

7. The long beans are ready.

# The long beans can be substituted with a variety of of vegetables like French beans, murunge keerai......