Nepali Green Bean-Sesame Salad

Name: Nepali Green Bean-Sesame Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Nepal
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; 2 to 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, to taste; 2 tablespoons peanut oil or vegetable oil; 2 green cayenne chiles, seeded and sliced into rings; 3 tablespoons sesame seeds; 1 pound green beans or yard-long beans; Chopped coriander leaves or several mint leaves, minced (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mangoes & Curry Leaves

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

Published 2005

About

Salads, fresh chutneys, and some sauces are all called achar in Nepali. Here, in simi achar, green beans are cooked until just tender, then dressed in hot spiced oil and lemon juice and tossed with toasted sesame seeds, an approach very like that of the Nepali cucumber salad, and just as dazzling.