Long Beans In Semi Dry Gravy

Long beans  is called chaulichi sheng in Marathi and Alsande in Kannada. It can be made in many ways and I have made my version of a semi dry gravy. Can be had with phulkas and rice too.

Ingredients
200 gms of long beans washed, ends chopped off and then chopped into medium sized pieces

Ingredients to be ground to a smooth paste

1/2 cup freshly scraped coconut
1 tspn cumin seeds
1 tspn mustard seeds
6 seeds of fenugreek
8 black peppercorns
1/2 tspn of fennel seeds
4 green chillies
1 onion roughly chopped
1 tomato roughly chopped
Juice of half a lime
Few sprigs of coriander
1 tspn of malvani masala

Method

Ina pan take oil, add little turmeric powder, add the chopped beans, little salt, a sprinkle of water and cook covered till half done, add the ground paste, salt as required, add water if necessary , adjusting the consistency as per your taste, and let it cook till the paste leaves the sides of the pan so the semi cooked beans get cooked too and the flavours get totally infused into them. Transfer into a serving bowl, garnish with coriander. your dish is ready.