Avryachi Usali is a stir fry made with field beans. This is a gluten free vegan preparation and is very healthy. Serve with rice or rotis.
When he tells me that he will soak and pressure cook avre, you just make the field beans stir fry, I can never say NO. He keeps saying that he loves the “Usli” that I cook. Since I feel lazy to cook during weekdays, he himself soaks it and even pressure cooks it. Since it gets pressure cooked, I have no other option but to put all the ingredients together and make a great dish for him… and then he says ” Oh, I love this dish that you made 🙂 ” This another Goan vegetarian menu recipe called avaryachi usli or avarekalu recipe and is a favorite at home.
Avre are known as field beans in English.
The legumes that I have used in this post are field beans. You can replace the avarekai by any type of legumes. Even chickpeas can be used.
How to serve avayrachi usli?
This dish belongs to the Goan veg food menu and can be eaten along with rice or with bread or rotis. We love to eat it plain without any accompaniment. Sometimes we have it for dinner or sometimes for breakfast. I had been making this avre recipe since long, but this time hubby forced me to click this and to share it with you all.
Avaryachi usli or Avarekalu usali is a delicious vegan stir fry made with field beans and spices. Serve it with rotis.
Avryachi Usali / Field Beans Stir Fry
Avryachi Usali is a stir fry made with field beans. This is a gluten free vegan preparation and is very healthy. Serve with rice or rotis.
Servings: 2 People
Equipment
- Pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup avare/field beans
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 to mato finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon grated coconut optional
- 1 tablespoon tamarind paste/ 1 marble sized ball of tamarind
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- A pinch of asafoetida piece / 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida powder
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder/dhania powder
- 10 curry leaves
- 3 dry red chilies
- 2 tablespoon oil
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Let us begin cooking avryachi usali.
- Soak the aavrekai/aavre in water for 8 hours. After 8 hours, drain the water and pressure cook them by adding 2 cups water for 4-5 whistles. After the cooker cools, open it, drain the water and keep the aavrekai aside.
- For tamarind paste, you can either use readymade tamarind paste or you can make it at home by soaking one marble sized ball of tamarind in water. Keep it soaked in water for 30 Min's and smash it in water.
- I normally use "Shankar Shaap Asafoetida" compared to the powdered one commonly available in markets. If you do not get "Shankar Shaap Asafoetida" use any other type of asafoetida powder.
- Keep a kadai/wok on the heat. Heat for 2 minutes and add oil. After the oil gets heated, add mustard seeds. When they splutter, add asafoetida, curry leaves and crushed red chilies.
- After 2 minutes, add chopped onion and saute. When the onion turns pinkish, add chopped tomato and saute till tomato turns mushy.
- Now add turmeric and chili powder and mix. Add coriander powder and mix.
- Now add the avre /field beans from the pressure cooker. Mix it with all the contents.
- Add salt to taste. Garnish with grated coconut and chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve with rice/rotis or any type of bread, or just have plain.
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Usli looks yummy.. never tasted these beans.
Try it Shobha. They taste yummy.
Lovely recipe …
Thanks smitha
I’ve got to try this recipe for the hubs and I. Love all the fresh herbs and spices used to make this dish. Now, this is a true home cooked meal, yum
Thanks Jessica. Yes this is a healthy recipe.
This looks delicious. I have never had this variety of beans but as delicious as this dish looks, I’d be happy to try them!
Hey Megan, you can try the same recipe with any type of beans.
The recipe turns yummy.
Somehow we don’t get these field beans in Goa. I was looking for such beans because I just love beans, savory or sweet. Are they native to the Karnatake Bangalore area? I didn’t see them in Mysore when we visited a while back.
Love all the ingredients you used in your dish, I bet it tastes great!
You can get these in Goa too Helene. Infact this is a Goan recipe.
Check in Borkar super store in Margao or any other super store in your area.
Looks tasty! I am going to have to bite the bullet and invest in a pressure cooker one of these days!
Thanks for the comment Monica. Loved the word bullet 😉
Such wonderful flavors! I don’t cook with field beans nearly enough. I would love to try this with roti.
You can cook this recipe by replacing field beans with any other beans too.