French beans have plenty benefits like eye care, improved bone health, control diabetes, improve immunity, prevent colon cancer and reduce heart risks. In today's blog post, we are going to see healthy vegetarian dish made using lentils and french beans. Kootu or stew is a south indian recipe, which is nothing but pressure cooked lentils with onions, tomatoes, garlic (helps reducing gastric troubles caused by lentils), turmeric powder. Then any vegetable like cabbage, squash, french beans, carrots, peas could be added and cooked for few more whistles or until done. Then comes the freshly ground cocount, cumin and black pepper corns paste. This spicy and tasty paste gets added to the pressure cooked dhal/lentil + vegetable combo to make the kootu or stew. Then you can temper it with coconut oil or any cooking oil along with mustard, urad dhal/black gram and few red chillies. Let's see how to make French beans kootu. Ingredients: 1 cup masoor dhal 1 large onion, roug...