Broad Bean Tomato Curry / Chikkudukaya Tomato Koora - Side dish for Rotis

Broad Beans goes well with many vegetables like brinjal, tomato, onion, potato. You can make many varieties by adding one or 2 other vegetables along with Broad Beans. Today's recipe is a simple and easy to make curry which goes well with roti and rice. 

My friend who grows Broad beans in her kitchen garden, gave us lots of those. So every alternative day we have been eating many varieties of curries with this. She says Broad beans are very easy to grow. These are protein rich and high in vitamin c. Got so much of inspiration from her to plant these in my garden.

Ingredients

40 goruchikkudu

1 tomato

1 onion

1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds

1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder

1 teaspoon coriander powder

1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder

3-4 teaspoon Oil 

1. Remove strings from both sides of Broad Beans and then break the beans to pieces. Boil these for 15 minutes. Remove water and keep it aside. Chop tomato and onion.  Heat a pan with oil, add cumin seeds, when they splutter, add onions.

2. Cook and saute onions for 5 minutes, add turmeric powder, cumin powder, red chilli powder and salt. Cook  and saute for another 5 minutes. Then add tomato pieces. Cook for 10 more minutes, Saute it every 2-3 minutes. 

3. This curry is a side dish for rotis but can also be eaten with rice.