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Green Beans with black Mustard Seeds and Garlic

Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged green beans, madhur jaffrey, mustard seeds, robin ellis, spicy on June 14, 2011| 9 Comments »

Small piles of green beans are starting to appear in the markets.

Adapted from the actress and cookery writer, Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe ,
these goes well with spicy and not so spicy food.

for 4

1lb/450 gms green beans–topped
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon black mustard seeds
4 cloves of garlic — chopped very fine
1 dried red chilli–chopped fine
1 tsp salt
pepper

Cook the beans to just tender in plenty of lightly salted, boiling water–use tongs to whip one out of the water to test for doneness.

Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the seeds.

When they start to pop add the garlic.

Cook until it starts to turn light brown–careful not to burn it–it won’t take long.

Add the chilli and stir.

Add the beans and the salt.

Turn the heat to low and fold the beans over in the oil and spices.

(You are heating through and infusing the beans with the flavours–5 minutes should do it).

Add the pepper

"Still life" with Marmalade, Lily and spicy green beans