Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry / Bonchi thel dala

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi August 13, 2013

Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry

Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry-Bonchi thel dala

Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry will sure win your heart! This is a quick & easy green beans recipe from Sri Lankan Cuisine. We don’t use coconut milk here as of most of other Sri Lankan recipes. We like this as a side dish & well goes with plain rice. If you check this Green Beans Curry recipe, the steps are more similar to this dish, but finally we add coconut milk to make it as a curry. Sometimes it is interesting to see how the flavor is different from each dish only by changing an ingredient.

Here is the recipe for Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry.(Bonchi Thel Dala).

Sri Lankan recipes-Green Beans Fry-Bonchi thel dala

**Recipe : Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry.(Bonchi Thel Dala).**

Ingredients: (for 3-4 servings)

250g Green beans

1 medium Onion

2 cloves Garlic

3-4 Green chilli

½ tspn mustard seeds

1 tspn curry powder

½ tspn turmeric powder

1 tbsp Chilli powder

¼ tspn fenugreek seeds

Piece of cinnamon

1 sprig Curry Leave

2 inch piece of Pandan leave (optional)

Salt to taste

2 tbspn Oil

Sri Lankan Food-Green Beans Fry-Bonchi thel dala

Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry.(Bonchi Thel Dala).

Method

Wash, remove the ends & slice green beans.

Slice onion, green chilli and garlic.

Heat a pan with 2-3 tbspn oil. Add mustard seeds & let it fry.

Once mustard seeds start splutter, add onion, garlic, green chilli, and curry leaf and pandan leave.

Sauté until onions are golden colour.Then add sliced green beans and mix well. Fry till green beans are tender.

Then add curry powder, chili powder, fenugreek seeds and cinnamon stick & mix well.

Add salt as per taste.

Cover & fry for another few minutes until Green beans are cooked properly.

Serve with rice & enjoy!

Bonchi Thel Dala-Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry

Do you like this Sri Lankan Green Beans Fry?If you cook green beans using this recipe,please let me know how it came out.I’d like to hear your comments. 🙂

Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes, you will also find travel, health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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37 comments

Shruti August 12, 2013 - 11:01 pm

Hey, I never knew this way of cooking a dish with green beans!!! 🙂 Loved this… I will definitely try it out soon…

Amila Wickramarachchi August 14, 2013 - 3:55 am

try this,sure you’d love it!

Veena Theagarajan August 13, 2013 - 1:28 am

yummy.. Addition of pandan leaves makes it more flavourful

Ramya Krishnamurthy August 13, 2013 - 2:15 am

delicious and tempting curry

Harini M August 13, 2013 - 3:46 am

Looks very homely n hearty.What is pandan leaves Amy

Amila Wickramarachchi August 13, 2013 - 4:18 am

We use pandan leaves(Screwpine Leaf/Rampa) in Sri Lankan cooking specially for the aroma.In a curry recipe,it is an optional item same as curry leaves….

Amelia August 13, 2013 - 4:34 am

Hi Amila, this green beans dish look appetizing. Very interesting recipe and you added pandan leaves for extra fragrant, love it.

Have a nice day.

Amila Wickramarachchi August 14, 2013 - 3:57 am

thanks Amilia,we use both curry leaves & pandan leaves for our cooking.(but still optional)
Even I use a piece of pandan leaf when cook plain rice…

Lavanya T R August 13, 2013 - 6:08 am

Pics are really tempting…nice one!
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Chitz August 13, 2013 - 8:31 am

Easy & tempting dish.. Perfect with steamed rice 🙂

Wer SAHM August 13, 2013 - 9:05 am

simple and tasty bean fry…

Priya Anandakumar August 13, 2013 - 9:24 am

Simply super Amila very inviting…

Shama Nagarajan August 13, 2013 - 11:50 am

delicious …

Shashi Charles August 13, 2013 - 12:40 pm

Oh wow – your green beans look just like my moms! She doesn’t use coconut milk in hers either!
Thanks for sharing this one 🙂
Shashi @ http://runninsrilankan.com

Amila Wickramarachchi August 14, 2013 - 3:55 am

thanks & hope you’d try this…. 🙂

Punsisi N Darshana Upasena August 13, 2013 - 12:49 pm

Thank you for your efforts in giving us everything out of your goodwill.. Really love your blog and being in a country alone, making these foods makes us go back to Sri Lanka.. Thank you so much!

Amila Wickramarachchi August 14, 2013 - 3:59 am

I am really glad to receive this comment,happy to hear my recipe sharings are helpful…thanks

Anupa Joseph (Palaharam) August 14, 2013 - 12:58 am

Hey..thanks for stopping by my space….Never been to ur blog before…glad to have found ur space 🙂

Navaneetham Krishnan August 14, 2013 - 1:36 am

Pandan leaves? That got me excited. Certainly must try because I have bushes of pandan in my garden and ….. side dishes such as this delicious beans bonchi will be much loved to be eaten with rice.

Swathi Iyer August 14, 2013 - 2:56 am

Delicious srilankan green beans fry Love to try. I will try this when I can get hold of fresh pandan leaves.

Priya Suresh August 13, 2013 - 8:55 pm

Prefect stir fry to enjoy with rice.

Nilu A August 14, 2013 - 6:17 am

Loved this delicious and simple bean fry Amila 🙂

Michell Pulliam August 14, 2013 - 7:14 pm

Hi Amila! An interesting twist on a green bean recipe! I love finding new ways to cook my vegetables! Thanks for sharing and thanks for stopping by and linking up…have a blessed rest of your week!;-)

Maha Gadde August 15, 2013 - 2:03 am

healthy green fry perfect vth rotis.

Abbe Townsend August 16, 2013 - 9:01 am

Beautiful green beans, Amila! I can’t ever think of anything interesting to do with them, I’m going to give these a try :0)

arfi binsted August 16, 2013 - 7:41 pm

Beautiful! I’m invited by a Srilankan family for lunch tomorrow, so I don’t know what to expect. Then, I came across your blog, now yours is enlightening me a bit. Thank you.

arfi binsted August 16, 2013 - 7:43 pm

I am invited by a Sri Lankan family for lunch tomorrow, so I don’t know what to expect. Coming across your blog has enlightened me. Thanks so much! Can’t wait for my luncheon.

Amila Wickramarachchi August 20, 2013 - 1:36 am

thanks for the comment.Hope you enjoyed your lunch with Sri Lankan friends…

BriAnna Romero January 7, 2014 - 5:14 am

So I’m from America but my husband is from Sri Lanka. I try to make dishes close to home for him but i can not get the green beans to be soft. How can i fix this? Can i boil them first

Amila Wickramarachchi January 13, 2014 - 3:51 am

No need to boil them first,usually green beans are bit crunchy.But I cook few more minutes until they are soft.The colour of Green beans will change,but still it is tasty and soft.Remove from heat before it is overcooked.

Debbie Karunanayake January 7, 2014 - 3:05 pm

hi amila, i am married to a sri lankan man and was looking for foods to cook for him as he misses hes mums home cooking so thankyou for posting your lovely recipes i am going to cook this tonight for him..

Amila Wickramarachchi January 13, 2014 - 3:52 am

Hope you cooked and this dish came out well….

Anjalika Fernando February 19, 2014 - 10:23 am

Thank you for the recipe Amila! I cooked the Green Beans stir fry and it came out really well. Didn’t get overcooked at all! :)) Keep posting such useful stuff !!!

Amila Wickramarachchi February 19, 2014 - 10:42 am

oh I am really happy to see this comment,Glad this post is helpful….Keep in touch with Food Corner!

Umar Iyoob June 18, 2014 - 9:59 pm

Thanks so much!!

Gauri Kulkarni March 12, 2015 - 8:48 am

Nice and easy way of cooking beans 🙂

Ritu Ahuja March 12, 2015 - 10:58 am

It looks delicious. Very easy to follow recipe and well explained. I will give it a try soon. Yummy 🙂

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