Runner or green beans foogath

Name: Runner or green beans foogath
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 kg/2¼ lb French beans, topped and tailed or, if you are lucky enough to get them, fresh runner beans, stringed, topped and tailed and chopped into pieces about 12 mm/½ inch long (maximum); 1 kg/2¼ lb French beans, topped and tailed or, if you are lucky enough to get them, fresh runner beans, stringed, topped and tailed and chopped into pieces about 12 mm/½ inch long (maximum); 6 dried red chillies, coarsely chopped; salt; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 2 cups grated fresh coconut (dried coconut will not do in this instance); 2 cups grated fresh coconut (dried coconut will not do in this instance); vegetable or coconut oil; vegetable or coconut oil; 20 g/¾ oz cumin seeds; 300 g/11 oz new potatoes, scrubbed and diced into 12 mm/½ inch cubes (maximum); 2 red onions, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd's India

By Keith Floyd

Published 2001

About

This is simple, quick Indian cooking at its best - a tasty dish that enables you to enjoy spicy, crunchy green beans that have not had the goodness boiled out of them in gallons of salted water. It should be awarded two yum yums!

Ingredients

vegetable or coconut oil
20 g/¾ oz cumin seeds
300

Asia
India
Side dish
Spicy
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Heat some oil in a pan, add the cumin seeds and cook until they crackle.
Add the potato cubes and onions and stir-fry until they are slightly colouring, then add just a tiny drop of water and cook until the water has evaporated and the potatoes are al dente.
Stir in the chopped beans without adding any more water, then stir in the chopped dried