Aloo Beans is an Indian style potato & French beans recipe. This simple dish is vegan & gluten-free. It can be served with any Indian bread or rice & dal.
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Unlike what's served in most Indian restaurants, Indian home-cooked meals are very simple and nutritious. Generally, any Indian major meal comprises of one vegetable dish, one dal, roti or rice, and a few side dishes like raita, salad, chutney or pickle.
On a normal day, this is what almost every Indian eats. There might be variations in the way these dishes are cooked depending upon the region but the main components remain the same.
Today, I am sharing a very easy vegetable recipe from India- Aloo beans which is vegan as well as gluten-free. It's made with potatoes, French beans, and a few spices.
This French beans dish is made in every region of India but I am sharing the way it's cooked in North India. Other regions may have a slightly different way of making it.
Serving suggestions
If you are planning to serve it for breakfast, then serve it with any Indian bread like Roti or Paratha.
For lunch or dinner, it can be served with roti as well as rice and dal like chana dal, masoor dal, or sabut moong dal.
Recipe tips & tricks
- Don't add water to cook this dish otherwise, it will turn mushy. The beans should remain slightly crunchy.
- You can also add sliced onion to aloo beans. Just cook it for a few minutes until it turns translucent before adding potatoes.
- Add dry mango powder (amchoor powder) or lime juice to give it a tangy taste.
- You can use any type of beans like cluster beans, string beans, flat beans, etc.
More easy Indian vegetable recipes
If you also want to cook an Indian vegetarian meal at home then you might try one of the following Indian vegetable recipes:
- Aloo Matar
- Bhindi Masala
- Kerala style pepper mushroom
- Aloo baingan
- Gobhi matar methi
- Cabbage poriyal
- Aloo Bhindi
- Aloo matar gajar
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Aloo beans
Ingredients
- 250 grams French beans chopped into around 1.5- inch pieces
- 1 medium-sized potato chopped into bite-size pieces
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1.5 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder adjust as per taste
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon dried mango powder optional, you can also replace it with 1.5 tablespoons of lime juice
- 1/8 teaspoon asafoetida gluten-free
- Salt as per taste
- 1 tablespoon mustard oil/ any other cooking oil of your choice
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed pan and add cumin seeds. Let the cumin seeds splutter in hot oil.
- Add potato cubes and saute for about 1-2 minutes.
- Next, add French beans, all the spices, salt, and mix.
- Cover the pan. Allow to cook for around 12-15 minutes or until the potatoes and beans are cooked. Keep checking and stirring after every 5-7 minutes to make sure it's not sticking to the pan. If required add a few tablespoons of water.
- Finally, add mango powder or lime juice and mix. Serve hot with roti/ paratha/ or any other Indian bread. You can also enjoy it as a side dish with rice and dal.
Notes
- Use a heavy-bottomed or non-stick pan to make this dish.
- Cut small pieces of potato and beans to fasten the cooking time.
- Don't add a lot of water to cook this dish otherwise, it will turn mushy. The beans should remain slightly crunchy.
- You can also add sliced onion to aloo beans. Just cook it for a few minutes until it turns translucent before adding potatoes.
- Add dry mango powder (amchoor powder) or lime juice to give it a tangy taste.
- You can use any type of beans like cluster beans, string beans, flat beans, etc.
- Naturally, asafoetida is gluten-free but a lot of brands add flour to it making it not suitable for people on a gluten-free diet. Make sure to buy the gluten-free variety. You can also skip adding asafoetida.
Simple and great recipe!
Instruction # 4 and Notes # 3 points contradicting though.
Thanks a lot, Harshad. You were right, I have made the correction now. Thanks for pointing that out.
Hi,
Normally asafoetida is not gluten-free and if you adding it in the recipe, it can't be gluten free.
Hi Rohan, naturally asafoetida is gluten-free but you are also right that a lot of brands add flour to it which makes it not suitable for people on a gluten-free diet. I will put a note in my recipe card for the convenience of people.