Til wali Gavar ki Phalli / Cluster beans in Sesame seed paste / Kothavarangai in ellu paste

Ingredients:

Cluster beans/Gavar/Kothavarangai – 250 gm, cut into 1 inch pieces

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Garlic cloves – 4 to 5

Green chilies

Tomato – 1, chopped

White Sesame seeds – 2 tbsp

Turmeric powder, Red chili powder and Salt

Oil, mustard and cumin seeds for tempering

Instructions:

• ·         Add ginger, garlic, chilies and sesame seeds to a mixer jar and make a fine paste with water – keep it aside
• ·         Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add mustard and cumin seeds
• ·         When it crackles, add the sesame paste and saute till the raw smell vanishes
• ·         Add turmeric powder, chili powder, salt and chopped tomatoes – mix and saute for few mins
• ·         Add the chopped cluster beans, mix well, adjust the taste, add water and cover the cooker
• ·         Let it whistle 3 or 4 times or depending upon your cooker
• ·         Once the cooker is cool, serve the sabji hot with phulka roti or chapathi

Gawar with besan pakode

Ingredients:
- Gawar / cluster beans (1/4 kg, cut into 1 inch pieces)
- Besan
- Onion (1/2, finely chopped)
- Ginger garlic paste
- Turmeric powder, Chili powder, Coriander powder and salt
- Garam masala
- Ground nut powder (freshly ground)
- Kasuri Methi
- Mustard seeds

Steps:
* Mix the Besan with Ginger garlic paste, Turmeric powder, Chili powder, Coriander powder and salt.
* Make small round shapes and fry it in oil to make the pakoda.
* Boil water and add gawar to it to cook for a while.
* In a kadai heat oil, add mustard seeds and when it splitters add onion, kasuri methi and ginger garlic paste
* Saute well and then add groundnut powder to it and saute well again.
* Add the fried pakodas and all masalas - Turmeric powder, Chili powder, Coriander powder and salt.
* Also add garam masala and boiled gawar
* Saute well and let it cook well in oil only for few mins
* Later add hot water to it and it cook well

Garnish with chopped corianeder leaves.