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Last Modified September 16, 2021

How to Make Long Beans Curry | Thick & Spicy Snake Beans Recipe

Long bean also known as yardlong bean or snake bean is one of the famous vegetables in Sri Lanka and many other parts of the world. Have you ever thought of how to make long beans curry with spicy and thick gravy? If yes, here is the best way to make spicy and tasty long beans curry. Basically, people make this for lunch, but you can have this for dinner as well. When you find long beans in your market don’t miss to try on this delicious vegan dish. Alright, let’s see how to make long beans curry in Sri Lankan style.

How to Make Long Beans Curry | Thick & Spicy Snake Beans Recipe

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How to Make Long Beans Curry

Ingredients
  • Long Beans – 300g
  • Onion – 75g
  • Garlic Cloves – 3 or 4
  • Curry Leaves – Few
  • Curry Powder – 1 ½ tablespoon
  • Thin coconut Milk – 200ml
  • Thin tamarind Juice – 100ml
  • Mustard Seeds – ¼ teaspoon
  • Fenugreek Seeds – ¼ teaspoon
  • Salt – As you need
  • Cooking Oil – As you need
Instructions

1. Take the long beans and cut it into about 2-inch sized pieces. Wash it well and keep aside.

Long Beans/Yardlong Beans/Snake Beans

2. Extract coconut milk and prepare the tamarind juice.

Long Beans Curry Ingredients

3. Chop the onions, slice the garlic and take some curry leaves. Also, get ready with mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, salt, and curry powder.

Snake Beans Ingredients

4, Heat the oil in a deep-fry pan and fry the pieces of long beans. Fry everything until its color turns into light brown as shown in the picture below.

Fried Long Beans

5. Now neat the oil in cooking pan and add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.

How to make Long Beans Curry

6. Add the onion and sauté it until it turns into soften and translucent. Then add garlic cloves, curry leaves, and fenugreek seeds. Fry them until the onion turns into golden color.

Snake Beans Curry Recipe

7. Add the coconut milk and the tamarind juice.

Milk & Tamarind for Snake Beans Curry Recipe

8. Add salt and curry powder. Mix everything well.

How to Make Long Beans Curry | Thick & Spicy Snake Beans Recipe

9. Cook covered under the high flame for 4 to 6 minutes.

How to Make Long Beans Curry | Thick & Spicy Snake Beans Recipe

10. Take off the lid and add the fried long beans. Mix everything well and cook covered under low flame for 2 to 4 minutes. If you don’t like thick gravy curry, it’s enough to cook 1 or 2 minutes.

How to Make Long Beans Curry | Thick & Spicy Snake Beans Recipe

11. Take off the lid and taste the curry. Adjust salt and tamarind juice if needed.

12. This is how to make long beans curry. Serve and enjoy this spicy and thick long beans curry in Sri Lanka style.

How to Make Long Beans Curry | Thick & Spicy Snake Beans Recipe

Notes

1. I used the coconut milk which is instantly extracted from grated coconut. If it is hard to find grated coconut, you can use coconut milk powder or bottled coconut milk.

2. If you don’t like more spiciness, you can reduce the amount of curry powder.

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How to Make Long Beans Curry | Thick & Spicy Snake Beans Recipe
 
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Prep time
40 Mins
Cook time
20 Mins
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Author: Rocy
Recipe type: Vegetarian
Serves: 4 People
Ingredients
  • Long Beans - 300g
  • Onion - 75g
  • Garlic Cloves - 3 or 4
  • Curry Leaves - Few
  • Curry Powder - 1 ½ tablespoon
  • Thin coconut Milk - 200ml
  • Thin tamarind Juice - 100ml
  • Mustard Seeds - ¼ teaspoon
  • Fenugreek Seeds - ¼ teaspoon
  • Salt - As you need
  • Cooking Oil - As you need
Instructions
  1. Take the long beans and cut it into about 2-inch sized pieces. Wash it well and keep aside.
  2. Extract coconut milk and prepare the tamarind juice.
  3. Chop the onions, slice the garlic and take some curry leaves. Also, get ready with mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, salt, and curry powder.
  4. , Heat the oil in a deep-fry pan and fry the pieces of long beans. Fry everything until its color turns into light brown.
  5. Now neat the oil in cooking pan and add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.
  6. Add the onion and sauté it until it turns into soften and translucent. Then add garlic cloves, curry leaves, and fenugreek seeds. Fry them until the onion turns into golden color.
  7. Add the coconut milk and the tamarind juice.
  8. Add salt and curry powder. Mix everything well.
  9. Cook covered under the high flame for 4 to 6 minutes.
  10. Take off the lid and add the fried long beans. Mix everything well and cook covered under low flame for 2 to 4 minutes. If you don’t like thick gravy curry, it’s enough to cook 1 or 2 minutes.
  11. Take off the lid and taste the curry. Adjust salt and tamarind juice if needed.
  12. This is how to make long beans curry. Serve and enjoy this spicy and thick long beans curry in Sri Lanka style.
Notes
1. I used the coconut milk which is instantly extracted from grated coconut. If it is hard to find grated coconut, you can use coconut milk powder or bottled coconut milk.

2. If you don’t like more spiciness, you can reduce the amount of curry powder.
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Filed Under: Vegan, Vegetarian
Tagged With: Deep Fry, Dinner, Long Beans, Lunch, Spicy

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  1. Vaijanthi says

    July 18, 2022 at 7:43 pm

    Hi what do you mean by curry powder.. fish curry or meat curry powder?

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