Ingredients:

• 500 g – val beans
• 45 g – oil
• 90 g – Onion (chopped)
• 30 g – Ginger Garlic paste
• 4 – Red Chillies
• 1 tsp – Turmeric powder
• 1 tsp -cumin seed
• 200 g – Coconut Milk
• 20 ml – Tamarind water
• 15 g -jaggery
• 20g – fresh Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Grind into a masala the red chillies, turmeric, cumin and coriander.
2. Boil the val in 1 litre of water with salt till it becomes tender.
3. Fry onions in oil till golden brown and add ginger-garlic paste. Fry till oil leaves the masala.
4. Add the ground masala and cook for 5 mins.
5. Add the val, coconut milk and simmer, stirring occasionally till gravy is thick.
6. Add salt, tamarind water, jaggery and cook for 5 mins more till it thickens.
7. Serve hot sprinkled with fresh coriander leaves.

Recipe courtesy of Sify Bawarchi