Gujerati (Indian Green Beans)

Ingredients

• 1 pound fresh green beans, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces **
• 2 TBS fat or oil
• 1 TBS black mustard seed (or 1 tsp horseradish, which is not as good but close)
• 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1/2 dried red chile pepper, crushed (or some minced ginger for less heat)
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp white sugar
• ground black pepper to taste
• Candied Garlic (Optional)*

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Blanch the green beans for 3 to 4 minutes. Drain, and shock with cold water.
2. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in the mustard seed and garlic, and cook until golden brown (this is very easy to burn, so use a light hand, although they are supposed to be kind of burnt - ymmv). (also be careful, the hot mustard seeds jump around a lot) 
3. Mix in the chile pepper. Place the green beans in the skillet, and season with salt and sugar. Cook and stir 8 minutes, or until tender. Feel free to add water if it starts to stick. 

*Try adding candied garlic as a garnish: boil about 10 cloves in a cup of water for about 8 minutes or until water is mostly gone. Add a couple of tbp of sugar & cook, stirring constantly until sugar is golden brown...turn out onto greased pan or parchment paper

**My copy of the recipe has "Try with spinach?" written on it, so, you know, maybe try with spinach?  In that case you would just blanch it just for like 30 seconds.  Broccoli would also be good.  Or carrots, if you like cooked carrots, as I'm told people do.

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Posted by Jasmine