Beans Salad / फरसबी ची कोशिंबीर

This is a Traditional Maharashtrian dish...a healthy yet tasty side dish to accompany rice and daal :)


Ingredients: 
Beans
Ground nuts powder( roasted ground nuts powdered)
Fresh grated coconut
chopped Green chillies
Salt to taste
Little bit Sugar 
Lemon juice
Pinch of soda (Bi-bicarbonate)
Mustard seeds,Cumin seeds,Asafoetida


Procedure:

1. Remove the threads from the sides of the pods and chop them well.
2. Pour 1-2 Tsp oil in pan. Heat it well. Add cumin seeds,mustard seeds and Asafoetida. Add chopped Beans pods and stir well. ( see Note)
3. Add pinch of soda. And stir well. Sprinkle little water with hands.Just sprinkle, don't add water.
4. Cook well on medium flame of stove. Giving continuous stir so that it doesn't burn at the bottom of the pan.  This way of cooking makes the pods crispy :)
5. Add finely chopped green chillies  or rather coarse chili paste.
6. Add salt.
7. Once it is cooked well. Switch off the gas and keep it aside.
8. Once it is cooled properly, add sugar,fresh grated coconut, groundnut powder and lemon juice. Mix well and it is ready.

Note: Instead of cooking the chopped pods in pan, cook them in pressure cooker.

         Put chopped pods in a bowl and without pouring water in the bowl, pressure cook    

         them.