Name: Parsi Style Field or Sheet Bean (Paapri)
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 Small tomatoes cut in large chunks; 2 onions, finely chopped and crisply fried; 1 tbsp Kashmiri masala paste*; 1 ½ tsp cumin powder; 1 large sweet potato, thickly sliced; 6 small potatoes, halved and unpeeled; 2 onions, chopped (raw); 1 tsp fresh ginger paste; 1 tsp fresh garlic paste; 1 kg/2.2 lb flat Paapri beans, strings on side removed and washed; 4 tbsp sunflower oil; ½ tsp turmeric; 2 tbsp tomato paste; 2 fresh whole garlic pods; 1 tsp coriander powder; 4-6 small, white baby-eggplant slit in quarters; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp red chili powder

Preparation info

6 to 8
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Art of Parsi Cooking

By Niloufer Mavalvala

Published 2016

About

A seasonal Indian vegetable, Paapri can be delicious if cooked properly. Not a popular dish with younger folk it needs to be spiced up and cooked with lots of trimmings, as shown in the recipe below. Although I grew up eating this regularly, it was not until I started cooking it myself that I actually started enjoying this dish!

Fairly popular in my cooking classes, it is a colourful array of vegetables all cooked in one pot. Paapri is a wonderful choice for a buff et table. Best se