| Green Beans (Indian Spicy Style) is a vegetable dish | | | | Cooking Time: 20 mins |
| prepared from green beans. I know that green beans | | | | Serves: 3 |
| do not taste that good, actually to me, green beans do | | | | How to prepare Green Beans (Indian Spicy Style) |
| not have any taste at all. But beans as a green | | | | 1. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan for 2mins. |
| vegetable are really healthy and nutritional. This dish | | | | 2. Put cloves and cumin seeds in the warm oil and |
| can be prepared as filler item with other non-veg items | | | | heat for 30sec-1mins |
| or as a break from rich and spicy dishes. This is an | | | | 3. Add the ginger-garlic combination. Stir and cook for |
| "everyday" recipe. Now I have modified this green | | | | about two minutes. |
| bean recipe a bit to make it slightly more spicy and | | | | 4. Mix the coriander powder with red chili powder in a |
| enjoyable. | | | | very small quantity of water to make a thick paste |
| Ingredients | | | | and add to Step 3. Stir a few times. |
| - 200gm Green beans (Trim the ends and then cut the | | | | 5. Put in the finely chopped tomatoes. Stir and cook for |
| beans in half crosswise) | | | | 2 minutes while mashing the tomato pieces. |
| - 1/2″ long and fresh ginger (Peel and chop | | | | 6. Put in the beans with salt and water and simmer |
| finely) | | | | them. Cover, turn heat to low and cook for 8-10 |
| - 2 cloves | | | | minutes or until the beans are tender. |
| - 3 pieces of Garlic peeled and chopped finely | | | | 7. Remove the cover. Add the lemon juice and a |
| - 2 cup Water | | | | generous amount of black pepper powder. |
| - 2 tablespoon Vegetable oil | | | | Turn up the heat and boil away the remaining liquid as |
| - 2 teaspoon whole cumin seeds | | | | per required consistency (keep stirring or the beans will |
| - 1.5 teaspoon of ground coriander seeds | | | | stick to the bottom of the frying pan). Indian Style |
| - 0.5 teaspoon of red chili powder | | | | Spicy Bean is now ready to be served with chappati |
| - 2 medium tomatoes finely chopped | | | | or as a side dish with rice along with any other curry. |
| - Salt to taste | | | | To view larger recipe photos, accompanying side |
| - Generous amount of Black pepper powder | | | | dishes and discussions, visit Indian Green Beans on |
| - 2 tablespoon of Lemon juice (or to taste) | | | | Best of Kanchan's blog. |
| Preparation Time: 10 mins | | | | |