Gorikayi Bhaat | Cluster Beans Bhaat | Chavlikayi Bhaat
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2-3 people
 
Tasty and flavourful with crunchy groundnuts, gorikayi/chavlikayi bhaat
Ingredients
  • ½ Cup chopped gorikayi/cluster beans
  • ¼ Cup peas
  • 2 Tbsp groundnuts
  • ½ Tbsp rasam powder/vangi bhath masala
  • 1 Tsp mustard
  • ½ Tsp jeera
  • A pinch of hing/asafoetida
  • 1 Tsp urad dal/uddina bele
  • 7-8 curry leaves
  • 1 chopped green chilli
  • ½ Tsp turmeric
  • ½ Tbsp jaggery
  • 1 Tsp tamarind paste/extract
  • 2 Cups cooked, cooled rice
  • 2 Tbsp oil
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 Tbsp freshly grated coconut
  • Chopped coriander
Method
  1. Heat oil and add mustard and jeera. Let them splutter
  2. Keep torn curry leaves, urad dal and chopped green chilli in a plate. Add these to the oil. Fry
  3. Add groundnuts and hing. Fry till groundnuts turn crunchy
  4. Add chopped gorikayi/cluster beans. Saute
  5. Once the gorikayi cook and lightly change colour add rasam powder and turmeric. Mix well
  6. Add shelled green peas and saute again
  7. To this add jaggery and tamarind paste and mix well till jaggery melts into the masala
  8. Add salt to cooked and cooled rice. Tip in the rice into the masala
  9. Add grated coconut into the mixed rice and finish with chopped coriander
  10. Serve with a raitha of your choice
Notes
Use vangi bhaat masala in place of rasam powder if you want

Skip groundnuts if you want
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/gorikayi-bhaat/