Guaar or gavar or Cluster beans, is one green veggies that my son is not very fond of. Still when I add potatoes to the guaar, he eats it without any fuss.
Ideally Sindhi style Guar is made by first boiling the guar in an open pan, till soft. It is then mashed well by pounding with a whisker having a flat base (mandiyaro). A tadka of ginger garlic is made in a pan/ spiri to which tomatoes and spices are added. Once cooked, mashed beans are added and cooked further. The dish is little pasty or mush like.
I personally don’t prefer it that way and I like to cook this subzi the way my mother used to make. Sharing her recipe with you.
Let’s straight away jump to today’s recipe!
Rating
- Guaar (cluster beans) 250 gm
- Potato 2 medium sized
- Onion 1 medium sized
- Tomato 2 small
- Green chillies 2 (or use as many you normally do)
- Ginger a bit
- Garlic 5-6 cloves
- Turmeric powder ½ tsp
- Coriander powder 1 tbsp
- Salt as per taste
- Oil 1-2 tbsp
- Wash guaar thoroughly and trim the tips on both the sides.
- Cut each bean into small (1 inch) pieces
- Peel and dice potatoes into big chunks
- Wash and add salt to potatoes, keep aside for 5 minutes (if you are not using it soon then add water to them to avoid blackening of chunks)
- Take 1-2 tbsps of oil in a pressure cooker and heat it
- Now pound ginger & garlic and add to oil.Saute it for few seconds till they slightly change color
- Chop the onion finely and add it to the cooker
- Saute onions till light brown. Add chopped tomatoes and chillies
- Add guaar, potatoes (first wash them to get rid of extra salt), salt, turmeric powder and coriander powder (remember to add salt with caution as potatoes are already salted)
- Saute them properly for a min or two, then add 1-2 tbsp of water and close the lid.
- Wait for 2 whistles,then simmer it on low flame for about 2 minutes or till potatoes are cooked.
- It is a dry Subzi,so put it on flame till all the water is evaporated
- Serve it with roti, or plain boiled rice
And now some Sweet dhoklas for Zlamushka, for her Tried and Tasted event , featuring lovely Sia of Monsoonspice, this month.
Sia highly recommended this recipe for Khaman Dhokla . I followed the recipe exactly and Iwas surprised with the results.First time I made it, they didn’t turned out very spongy (as u can see in the pic)..But the reason was that Soda bi carb was not very fresh.But they tasted simply lovely ! Second time I made it at my neighbor’s place and this time I added a small pack of ENO FRUIT SALT and yeah they indeed turned out very very fluffy.Sadly I didn’t had a camera at that moment, so for now kindly bear with this pic.
So yummy …..
aww..what alovely recipe.i made cluster beans ur style.thanku so much.the first time ever my gavar bhaji wid aloo tasted so yum.tht i actually took 3helpings..jus wonderful.thanku so much
hey yummy dhoklas!!! 😉
Heyl Alka, visiting ur blog after a long time…must say you have got some really fabulous recipes here…the list is too long….will be coming back for more:)
Guaar with aloo ,i’d eat that with rice and sambhar 🙂
Hi!
Excellent version of cooking Guaar ,havent tried seems interesting,I really appreciate to share the receipe ,do suggest howto make malporas,Palan tol
Best Wishes N God Bless
ChampsC
Dhoklas look yummy,they are so fluffy too.
Hi alka,
Thank u very much for visting my blog.coming to ur dhoklas r really aewsome and it is perfect pic…
wow..lovely pictures as usual alka…so delicious to see..
Both the dishes look amazing – yes the dhoklas don’t look as holey but they still look great! Pictures look great, gavar made this way is my favourite too!
Never made guar with potatoes – I normally make it with coarsely powdered peanuts and tamarind or just plain fried. Will try it your way if I find a frozen packet of Guar on my next trip to the Indian grocery store.
Its great,KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
GOD BLESS YOU
its great, i tried it is really tasty n dhokla also
thks for the great contribution, keep it up:)
plz try to send more recepie of guaar
Hi Alka
This is best Sindhi foodie site I have seen. I love to cook but sometime it is boring too….
Thanks for Bean cluster veggie…it remind me about my mom who is in India.
I would love to see some Navratri special….specially when you cant eat onion and garlic if you are fasting during Navratras. Along with that some special colums on Sindhi Festive Cooking !!!
Thanks again
Kamlesh
thanks for the receipe kindly send me some more like sindhi curry ,maath,mutton
alka, dhokla is so good…fluffy and i wud like to grab a few 🙂 guaar is a good recipe too…in india we used to make a lot of cluster beans recipe but after coming to US it is very rare mainly becoz of the cost of cluster beans…..
I have never had cluster beans curry with potatoes must be yum .. the pic looks amazing .. I too add a pinch of Eno in the dhokla N I love the results
Hi Alka, I can never have Guaar with or without potatoes. But bhaji looks good.
The dokhlas look fluffy enough to me…Nice entry