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Broad Beans Pickle is an Andhra pickle prepared using broad beans, known as Chikkudukayi in Andhra. These beans are stir fried with tamarind pulp and spices. This pickle goes well with hot rice.
Ingredients:
Indian Broad Beans – 2 cups, cut into pieces
Thick Tamarind pulp – 100gms
Red chilli powder – 100gms
Garlic Cloves – 4
Mustard seeds – 1teaspoon
Fenugreek seeds powder – 1 teaspoon
Curry leaves – 10
Oil – 4tsp
Salt to taste
Method:
- Heat 2 teaspoons of oil in a frying pan.
- Fry broad beans till the seeds are hard enough. Now add tamarind pulp to the fried beans.
- Now add red chilli powder, salt and fenugreek seeds powder and mix well.
- Heat another 2 teaspoons of oil in a frying pan.
- Add garlic cloves, mustard seeds, curry leaves. When mustard seeds start spluttering, add this to the above pickle and mix well.
- Store it in an air tight container.
P.S: After cutting the Broad beans, spread them on a clean cloth so that all the moisture gets abosorbed. This helps the pickle to stay longer.
