Stuffed steamed broad beans or Hyacinth beans. A no onion garlic recipe.
Broad beans called sheem, sem, hyacinth beans or butter beans.
Hyacinth beans are copper and iron rich vegetable.
According to Wikipedia, it is native to Africa and it is cultivated throughout the tropics for food. English language common names include hyacinth bean, lablab-bean bonavist bean/pea, dolichos bean, seim bean, lablab bean, Egyptian kidney bean, Indian bean, bataw and Australian pea. It is the only species in the
monotypic genus Lablab.
It also contains a number of vitamin such vitamin A, B vitamins, and vitamin C. it also contains some minerals such copper, zinc, magnesium, phosphorus.
Its helps to loss weight, prevent cancer, promote immune system, maintain healthy digestion, reduce cholesterol, improve cardiovascular health, ease asthma, enhance mood, improve brain function and treat insomnia, sore throat etc.
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Broad beans or Hyacinth beans stuffed with coconut and poppy seeds. Very easy to make yet delicious. Goes well with steamed rice.
You don’t need to saute fry or spend long hours in kitchen. You can prepare the stuffing and stuff the beans one day before and refrigerate. Just steam before meal time.
Recipe credit goes to my sister in law law Kajol. We love to talk about different recipes. And she has huge ideas and recipes. I never miss any of her recipe. Tried her every recipes and loved them. Thanks a lot Kajol for this awesome recipe.
If you love poppy seeds and coconut like me then its perfect for you.
You don’t need much spices to make it. You need only mustard oil, green chilli, coconut, poppy seeds, salt and sugar. Now have a look on the recipe.
Recipe
Broad beans – 250 gram
Mustard oil – 2 tablespoon
Green chilli – 4 – 5 to garnish
Chilli flakes to garnish, optional
One medium sized banana leaf
For stuffing
Coconut – 1 cup, grated or finely chopped
Poppy seeds or khaskhas – 4 tablespoon
Green chilli – 2 – 3
Oil – 2 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
Method
1. Wash and pat dry the broad beans or Hyacinth beans.
2. Cut the both tips and pull off the strings from the edges of both sides.
Carefully open from one side. See the picture below for method.
3. Soak the poppy seeds in hot water or microwave for one minute on full power with water to soak. Soak for 15 – 30 minutes for easy grinding.
4. Grind the soaked poppy seeds and green chilli. Add grated coconut in the grinder. Grind again and make a smooth paste.
5. Heat 2 teaspoon oil in a pan. Add the poppy seeds, coconut and green chilli paste, salt and sugar in it.
6. Saute till the mixture dried up completely.
Let it cool down.
7. Stuff the beans with this mixture.
8. Place a cleaned and washed banana leaf on the steamer basket. Arrange the stuffed beans over it.
9. Spread the remaining stuffing and 2 tablespoon mustard oil.
Place few green chillies. Sprinkle little red chilli flakes. Red chilli flakes is optional. I have sprinkled to add some colour. You can omit it if you want.
10. Pour 2 cup of water in the steamer. Place the steamer basket over it.
11. Cover and steam for 20 – 25 minutes or until the beans become tender.
Serve hot with steamed rice.
Notes
1. Use fresh coconut to make it.
2. Add little sugar to enhance the taste.
3. You can saute the stuffing with any oil but don’t forget to sprinkle mustard oil for perfect taste and flavour.
4. Remove the strings from beans carefully before cooking.
5. Use chillies according to your taste.
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This recipe looks absolutely healthy and delicious – I’ve never tried anything like this before! love it!
Thanks a lot Jolly 😍
Recipe sounds great! Must be a great try.
Thank you so much Sumith 😊 😊
Looks so delicious. Love the pictures and the recipe too. A must try😚
Thank you so much Avin 😍
Loved the recipe 🙂
Thank you 😊 😊
What an absolutely wonderful recipe. I never would pick this vegetable up because I don’t know how to cook it! This recipe will really help me
Thank you so much Nandita. You can also make it sheem er jhal with mustard 😍
I never heard about this beans. I like to learn and cook new recipes. This looks delicious. Thank you!
Thanks a lot Uma. Same here always try cook something new 😊😊
Very healthy side dish.. we can it serve with anything.
Thank you so much Shobha 😍
I love coconut and poppy seeds this recipe is a must try for sure, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Soma 😍
I have never made broad beans. Bookmarking your interesting recipe to make wheneverI get my hands on it
Thanks a lot Ritu 😍
We call this papdi in Gujarati. Stuffing it with the delicious coconut and poppy seed stuffing is a brilliant idea. Would love to try the recipe but will have to wait for the season.
Thank you so much Mayuri. I didn’t know the Gujarati name. Thanks dear 😍
I love beans in any format and this stuffed ones looks so good… normally we just slice and make like poriyal, but this is a lovely change to flavors…
Thank you so much Rafeeda 😍
Wow! We call this Papadi in Gujarati. We use this to make Undhiyu. I love the idea of stuffing them and making sabzi. I’ll give this a try. 🙂
Thanks a lot Dhwani 😍
I like to prepare stuffed vegetable in different forms. But, I would never ever opt this veggie as an option….Thanks for the idea…Love this healthy and delicious recipe…:)
Thanks a lot Padma 😍
This recipe sounds delicious. Love that stuffing 🙂
Thanks Freda 😊 😊
What a flavourful recipe! And so healthy too! All I’ve done with sem beans so far is to chop them and add to a non veg preparation. This idea sounds brilliant. I love steaming and stuffing vegetables. 💓
Thanks a lot Maria 😍
What an interesting recipe! so far I have tried only s a stir fry or sambhar or the south Indian curries with it. this seems so delicious.
Thanks a lot Seema 😊 😊
Coconut poppy seeds is a versatile stuffing combination and can brighten up any dish. Love the idea of using broad beans as base.
Thanks a lot Sapana 😊 😊
Stuffed beans in steaming method, nice idea di 👌👌 so healthy as well !!
Thanks a lot Sasmita dear 😊 😊
Why did I never think of stuffing broad beans? A great recipe, Sujata. The coconut-poppy seed filling must be such a delight with this vegetable.
Thanks a lot Aruna 😍
I make a stir fry by chopping it. This stuffing recipe is new to me and sounds delicious.
Thanks a lot Jayashree 😊 😊
This is how you cook these beans!!! I have started noticing these beans recently here but never purchased them as I did not know how to cook them. Thanks will try sounds yummy.
Thank you so much 😊 😊
I read your article carefully, it helped me a lot, I hope to see more related articles in the future. thanks for sharing.