Recipe Category: Beans
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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lb. Green beans (Trim the ends and then cut the beans in half crosswise.)
- 1 1/2″ long and Fresh ginger (Peel and chop coarsely.) 1″ thick piece
- 10 cloves Garlic peeled
- 1 cup Water
- 4 tblsp Vegetable oil
- 3 tsp Whole cumin seeds
- 2 tsp Ground coriander seeds
- 2 medium Tomatoes, peeled (put tomatoes in very hot water for a few seconds, peel off the skin and finely chop.)
- to taste salt
- freshly ground pepper.
- 3 tblsp Lemon juice (or to taste)
Method
- Put ginger and garlic into a food processor and add 1/2 cup water.
- Blend until fairly smooth.
- Heat the oil in a wide, heavy saucepan over a medium flame.
- When hot, put in the cumin seeds.
- Stir for half a minute.
- Pour in the ginger-garlic paste.
- Stir and cook for about two minutes.
- Put in the coriander and stir a few times.
- Put in the chopped tomatoes.
- Stir and cook for 2 minutes while mashing the tomato pieces with the back of a slotted spoon.
- Put in the beans and salt and one cup of water and simmer them.
- Cover, turn heat to low and cook for 8-10 minutes or until the beans are tender.
- Remove the cover.
- Add the lemon juice and a generous amount of freshly ground pepper.
- Turn up the heat and boil away the remaining liquid, stirring the beans gently as you do so.
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