Bean bhaja with rice flour sprinkles

Beans fry with rice flour (chaula bata) is cooked and served often as a side dish in Orissa. It goes well with rice and dalma or even as a side dish with rotis... Back home, a paste of rice and garlic and chillies is made on sila pua (heavy stone used for hand grinding) and added to the beans - the taste is heavenly... Here is my easy short cut version of it...

While this dish is nothing really to write about, I like its simplicity and its flavors. Its healthy, yummy and easy to make and hence worth blogging about. What do you say ?


Ingredients


1 cup of Beans cut into long pieces
2 table spoon rice flour
1 tea spoon garlic powder (you can use mince 2-3 garlic cloves instead too)
1-2 green chillies (optional)
1/4 tea spoon red chili powder
1/2 tea spoon turmeric powder
1/2 tea spoon whole cumin
2-3 table spoon oil
Salt to taste

How to


Put oil in a pan and let it get smoking hot. Add the green chilies (if you are using it) and the whole cumin.
Once the cumin sputters, add the beans and salt and turmeric powder and chili powder.
Let it cook for 4-5 min. After the bean is 1/2 done, sprinkle the rice flour and keep stirring. Add 1/2 table spoon of oil if you feel the rice is forming into big balls...
Sprinkle the garlic powder and remove from heat...

Serve hot or warm... The smell of garlic with rice flour is amazing...