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Subru Uncle’s French Beans-Aloo Ki Bhaji 🥔🌿
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 4
Description:
We make this French Beans and Potato dish as a side-dish and sometimes as the main dish a lot of times in this household. My dad loves eating this vegetable. I’ll be making this a lot for him while in the US on my vacation! Hope you enjoy this as much as we do!!

Ingredients:
Quantity | Ingredient |
---|---|
1 | Potato |
1 | Potato |
1 1/2 | Turmeric powder |
1 1/2 | Red chili powder |
1/2 | Coriander powder |
1 1/2 | Mustard seeds |
1 | Cumin seed |
1 | Onions |
2 | Garlic cloves |
3 | Green chilies |
2 | Fresh ginger |
1 | Tomatoes |
3 | Salt |
2 | French beans |
2 | Oil |
Instructions:
- Heat oil in a pot on medium flame.
- When it’s hot, lower flame and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Allow the seeds to splutter and crackle in the hot oil.
- Once they stop doing that, add ginger, garlic, onions, and green chilies to the oil.
- Mix well and stir-fry for 5-7 minutes or until the raw smell of ginger and garlic is gone and the onions are softened.
- Add potatoes, mix well, and cover the pot.
- Cook on medium flame for 5-7 minutes.
- Uncover, mix once, and then add turmeric powder, red chili powder, and coriander powder.
- Mix once again and then add the chopped French beans.
- Mix well, cover the pot with a tight-fitting lid and allow the veggies to cook on medium flame for 5 minutes.
- Uncover, add tomatoes and salt.
- Mix well and cover the pot with the tight-fitting lid.
- Allow to cook for 10 minutes on medium flame.
- Uncover, mix once, and then cover the pot again.
- Allow the veggies to cook for 5 minutes on medium flame or until the tomatoes are softened and the veggies are tender and cooked well.
- Remove the pot from the flame.
- Serve hot with Indian flatbreads (rotis) or bread or parathas.
Enjoy your delicious French Beans-Aloo Ki Bhaji! 🍲🥔🌿