Monday, August 2, 2010

The good old beans....My saviour, when i am running out of a time


For the people who have been regular with my blog, must be aware, that nowadays i am running out of a time, i am overwhelmed with work, and i have absolute no energy for cooking once i reach home, neither do i have the time to buy veggies.........

Yesterday, i was hungry like hell, and i wanted to have a good fulfilling dinner, but to my dismay the only veggie that i had at home was beans, and i knew i had to cook sabji for roti, as well a rice item with beans as the main ingredient....

So this two recipes helped me out...

1) Beans sabji(Preparation time: 20 mins)

Take oil, add cumin seeds, hing, jeera, one chopped onion, haldi, dhaniya jeera powder, chilly powder, salt, and chopped beans.( Beans should be chopped 1inch in length, somewhat similar to finger chips length)

Cover it with lid, donot add water, let it cook on the steam, and the water content that the veggie has...
Sabzi ready....


2) Pulav(Preparation time: 15 min)
Take oil, add cumin seeds, hing, tejpatta, akkha garam masala, ie, kalimirch, cinnamon stick, cloves...
Saute till the aroma comes, now add drained rice, peas, and beans, saute for 2-3 mins, till oil coats the veggies as well as rice...
Now add water (1:2 proportion, for 1 cup rice, 2 cup water, plus half cup water for the veggies)
Now let the rice cook...

I had used 1 cup rice, so put 2 and half cup of water, and i had perfect rice pulav...

These were my jiffy recipe cooked yesterday night......and to be honest, they turned out pretty well.. :D.....The advantage of cooking these recipes is it doesnt require much attention, both can be cooked simultaneoulsy, as they donot require constant stirring...


To add to it, here are the health benefits of having beans, which can motivate you to include it as a part of your staple diet:

1) Green beans are an excellent source of manganese, vitamin K and vitamin C.
Vitamin K, which plays an important role in bone health and the prevention of osteoporosis

2) Fresh green beans are very low in calories (31 kcal per 100 g of raw beans) and contain no saturated fat; but are very good source of vitamins, minerals and plant derived micro-nutrients.

3) Fresh snap beans are good source of folates. Folates diet during preconception periods and during pregnancy helps prevent from neural-tube defects in the offsprings.

Have a nice day, beautiful people and reap the benefits of all the beautiful things in life......

6 comments:

  1. Wow, you managed to cook so much after reaching home? The recipes are very simple and easy. I generally don't cook anything elaborate on weekdays myself. It is just too tiring.

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  2. Hey Rentu...how much oil did the beans subji requires..?

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  3. thanks Tanveer for your beautiful comments. Honestly i am too lazy to cook anything elaborate, but yesterday i was too tired of having boring food, so thought of doing something special

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  4. @anamika: just require 2 teaspoonful of oil, but you have to cook it on slow fire, and cover it with lid

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  5. Will surely try your pulav recipe. Seems pretty easy.

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  6. @Pallavi: Yes dear, and let me know, how it turned out :)

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