Beans Kootu

Ingredients:

Fresh and tender french beans : 1 cup (chopped into 1/2" pieces)
Moong dhal : ¼ cup (lightly roasted)
Green chillies :3 (slitted into 2)
Onion : 1 (finely chopped)
Turmeric powder : 1 tsp
Salt :  to taste

For Seasoning/Tadka:

Ghee/Oil : 1 tsp
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
Urad dhal : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : ½ tsp
Curry leaves

Method:

Wash & soak moong dal for an hour & cook it with neccesary water with turmeric powder.
When the dal is half cooked, then add chopped beans, onion & green chillies.
When the vegetable becomes soft and cooked , then add salt to this mixture.
Mix well and turn off the stove.
Heat oil in a kadai, then add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter.
Once it's started spluttering, then add urad dal, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
Add this seasoning into the vegetable mixture.
Beans kootu is ready to serve.

This goes well with Rice/Rotis.

PS:
Instead of Beans, we can also use vegetables like cabbage, banana stem, chow chow & snake gourd etc and prepare the kootu in a same way..