Green beans & carrots (tumis bunchis)

This is an Indonesian recipes I made from Madhur Jaffrey's cookbook Step by Step Cooking a few weeks ago. It was interesting to see the similar ingredients used in a slightly different way. For instance, if I had made this earlier, I wouldn't have put garlic and curry leaves together with beans and carrots. But we all liked how it turned out.

Since then, we have made it a few times and liked the results every time.

Here is how we made it.
(Recipe courtesy: Madhur Jaffrey's Step by Step Cooking)

Ingredients:

1 pound green beans

2 medium carrots

2-4 hot green chillies

1inch cube ginger

1 inch cube galangal (optional)

1/2 medium onion

4 garlic cloves

3tbsp veg oil

8-10 curry leaves

Salt to taste

Method:
Chop everything into thin slices.
In a pan, when the oil is hot, put in chillies, ginger, garlic, curry leaves, and onion.

Then add green beans, carrots and salt. Saute it all together for a couple of minutes. Then add about 3/4 cup water and let it cook for 5-7 minutes till the carrots turn soft and the water disappears.

Serve hot with rice and dal.