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Home » All Recipes » Gori Chikkudukaya Puluvu / Kothavarangai Puli Kootu / Cluster Beans in Tamarind sauce

Gori Chikkudukaya Puluvu / Kothavarangai Puli Kootu / Cluster Beans in Tamarind sauce

Posted on May 17, 2012 · Last Updated on Jun 23, 2020 by Uma Ramanujam · 24 Comments

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Wedding season here. I have attended few of my friend’s wedding and few more to come next week. Though the food served at wedding was something special and tasty, my mind wanted to crave home made simple food.

My MIL prepared plain dal for me and I prepared Kothavarangai puli kootu (Cluster beans in tamarind sauce) for me to satisfy my taste buds. Huh..Nothing can beat this combo. Simply awesome.

Though Cluster beans are not having any noticeable vitamins, it is rich source of soluble fibre content and are known for their cholesterol lowering effect. So try to include them in your meal.

It can also be called as Seeni Avaraikkai in Tamil and Chikkudukaya in Telugu. They give very slight bitter taste if you have not picked the tender one. Tender one cooks fast and goes well with curd rice, steamed rice with dal and steamed rice with sambar. I sometimes have it with chapathi too. Now, off to the recipe.

Basic Information:
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 25-30 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients:
Oil – 3 teaspoons
Mustard seeds – 1/4 teaspoon
Curry leaves – 1 string
Onion – 1 no, medium size, finely chopped
Kothavarangai / Cluster beans – 250 Grams
Salt – to taste
Sambar Masala – 1 and 1/2 teaspoon
Tamarind – 1 small lemon size

Method:

1) Soak tamarind in 3/4 cup of warm water.
2) Remove the fibre strings from each side of the cluster beans. Chop them into an inch length pieces.
3) Take a frying Pan / Kadai / Sauce pan and heat oil in it.
4) When the oil is hot and not smoking, add the mustard seeds.
5) Mustard seeds starts to crackle and when the sound of cracking reduces, add the onion and curry leaves.

6) Saute them for 2 minutes or till the onion turns soft and translucent.
7) Add chopped cluster beans. Sprinkle the water. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.

8) After 5 minutes, the cluster beans have turned to soft and almost cooked.
9) Add salt, sambar masala and mix well. Cook for another 3 minutes uncovered.

10) Now, extract the tamarind sauce and add this sauce to the frying pan.
11) Allow a single boil. Cover and cook for 5 minutes in low flame. After 5 minutes, open the lid and cook until the cluster beans becomes soft and it reaches the kootu consistency.

12) Adjust the salt as per your taste and serve hot.
13) We enjoyed this with Plain Dal with Steamed rice and Curd Rice.

Note:
1) If you are using tender cluster beans, it cooks fast than the specified time mentioned here. So keep watching the pan and cook accordingly.
2) Increase or decrease the sambar masala quantity as per the spiciness of the sambar powder.
3) Increase or decrease the tamarind as per the taste.

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FewMinute Wonders
FewMinute Wonders
12 years ago

Its been ages since I had kothavaranga. Looks comforting.

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Only Fish Recipes
Only Fish Recipes
12 years ago

wow…beans in tamarind sauce….a must try..drooling over the pics dear…looks so so delicious !!!!

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Reshmi Mahesh
Reshmi Mahesh
12 years ago

This is new to me…I have always tried stir fry with it never any curry..Looks delicious..

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Nalini's Kitchen
Nalini's Kitchen
12 years ago

Sounds new to me,never tried this way….looks tempting,got a pack of frozen cluster beans,will try it soon….

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hotpotcooking
hotpotcooking
12 years ago

Nice kootu. I too do this same way

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Neha
Neha
12 years ago

This dish looks very yummy…..

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AJ
AJ
12 years ago

Yumm, love these. Never see the fresh beans here though and frozen ones are so awful.

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Julie
Julie
12 years ago

Looks delicious..Love to have with steamed rice,Very new dish to me..:-)

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Priya Suresh
Priya Suresh
12 years ago

Never tried adding tamarind with this beans, sounds awesome and tangy Uma.

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Sangeetha M
Sangeetha M
12 years ago

Cluster beans with tamarind sounds interesting! Sure this would have tasted great with hot rice…will try this for sure!!

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Hamaree Rasoi
Hamaree Rasoi
12 years ago

I have young tender cluster beans in my pantry….and your pics are so tempting that I may end up cooking this only 🙂

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Packya
Packya
12 years ago

yummy… it looks perfect

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Akila
Akila
12 years ago

Wow just love it…..

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Gayathri NG
Gayathri NG
12 years ago

yummy fry…

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Unknown
12 years ago

Looks yum
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Tina
Tina
12 years ago

Its new to me..Sounds delicious.

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Prathima Rao
Prathima Rao
12 years ago

Tempting pics..Looks delicious..
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Jeyashris Kitchen
Jeyashris Kitchen
12 years ago

I never cooked cluster beans, sounds nice

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Suja Manoj
Suja Manoj
12 years ago

Cluster beans in tamarind sounds yummy,will surely try this

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12 years ago

Perfect recipe with nice presentation.. new to your space.. do stop by mine…

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anthony stemke
anthony stemke
12 years ago

I am unsure what cluster beans are, they seem to resemble green beans or string beans. The tamarind sounds wonderful.

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Spice up the Curry
Spice up the Curry
12 years ago

this looks delicious.

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Faseela
Faseela
12 years ago

awesome n delicious….

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Shabbu
12 years ago

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