Spicy Green Beans (Masaledar Sem)

Submitted by HappyBunny

• Ready In: 12mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 lbs fresh green beans
• 1 ginger, peeled, chopped (1-inch cube)
• 10 cloves garlic
• 1 1⁄2 cups water
• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons whole cumin seeds
• 1 dried hot red chilies
• 2 teaspoons coriander, ground
• 1 can chopped tomato
• 1 1⁄4 teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon roasted cumin, ground

directions

1. Trim the green beans and cut them crosswise at 1/4 in intervals.
2. Put the ginger and garlic into the container of an electric blender or food processor.
3. Add 1/3 of the water and blend until fairly smooth.
4. Heat the oil in a wide, heavy saucepan over a medium flame.
5. When hot, put in the cumin seeds.
6. Five seconds later, put in the crushed chili.
7. As soon as it darkens, pour in the ginger-garlic paste.
8. Stir and cook for about a minute.
9. Put in the coriander.
10. Stir a few times.
11. Now put in the chopped tomatoes.
12. Stir and cook for about 2 minutes, mashing up the tomato pieces with the back of a slotted spoon as you do so.
13. Put in the beans, salt and the remaining water.
14. Bring to simmer.
15. Cover, turn heat to low and cook for about 8-10 minutes or until the beans are tender.
16. Remove the cover.
17. Add the lemon juice, roasted cumin, and a generous amount of freshly ground pepper.
18. Turn heat up and boil away all of the liquid, stirring the beans gently as you do so.

Reviews

[Snowpeas]

This is a delicious and easy alternative to plain old green beans. I really enjoyed it! I turned down the heat a bit for my husband. It smells as divine as it tastes!

 

[Strong Quiver]

This had wonderful flavor even though I didn't have coriander or whole cumins. I did have powder cumin, so that's what I used. I also used red pepper flakes instead of red chiles. I did find that once I added all the water is thinned out the flavor, so once it steamed I added more minced ginger that I put through a garlic press and then I added some cooked ground turkey and we ate it like a stir fry! It was yummy.

 

[TheSource]

Excellent! Even better made with fresh tomatoes (2 medium-sized). Elimated the garlic (had run out) with no loss of flavor. Use 1 1/2-inch knob of fresh ginger root.

 

[Airwalker]

Wonderful recipe - easy, delicious, complex tastes.... yummmm, even my indian food loving and cooking husband loved it!!!

 

[kaurorac]

I really liked this recipe, it was easy if you had everything on hand, the directions were very clear and the flavor was a wonderful twist on what to do with greenbeans. Thank you for a nice recipe!!