Recipe - Masaledar Sem [Spicy Green Beans]

1 One half pound Green beans. Trim and then
Cut in half cr
1 One half Inches fresh ginger, 1 inch
thick;Peel and chop
10 Cloves garlic, peeled
1 cup Water
4 tablespoon Vegetable oil
3 teaspoon Whole cumin seeds
2 teaspoon Ground coriander seeds
2 md Tomatoes, peeled and finely
Chopped to tas
Salt
Freshly ground pepper
3 tablespoon Lemon juice (or to taste)

1. Put ginger and garlic into a food processor and add One half cup water.
Blend until fairly smooth. 2. Heat the oil in a wide, heavy saucepan over a
medium flame. When hot, put in the cumin seeds. Stir for half a minute.
3. Pour in the gingergarlic paste. Stir and cook for about two minutes.
Put in the coriander and stir a few times. 4. Put in the chopped tomatoes.
Stir and cook for 2 minutes mashing the tomato pieces with the back of a
slotted spoon. 5. Put in the beans and salt and one cup of water. Bring to
simmer. 6. Cover, turn heat to low and cook for 810 minutes or until the
beans are tender enough. 7. Remove the cover. Add the lemon juice and a
generous amount of freshly ground pepper. 8. Turn up the heat and boil
away the remaining liquid, stirring the beans gently as you do so.

Recipe By : Somesh Rao

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini