Spiced Butter Bean Curry

Name: Spiced Butter Bean Curry
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 onions, roughly chopped; 125 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup vegetable oil; 2 cubes frozen crushed garlic or 6 garlic cloves, crushed; 400 g/14 oz canned chopped tomatoes; 2 bay leaves; ¼ tsp chilli powder; 1 tsp ground turmeric; 1½ tsp salt; 1 tsp sugar; 800 g/1 lb 12 oz canned butter/lima beans, drained; small handful coriander/cilantro, roughly chopped; 1 tsp English mustard; 1 tsp ground cumin; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; 2 cubes frozen crushed ginger or 2 thumb-sized pieces fresh ginger, peeled and grated; 1 tbsp garam masala; 1 tbsp ground coriander

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

30 Minute Mowgli

By Nisha Katona

Published 2021

About

For convenience and heft, you can’t beat a butter/lima bean, and I would wholeheartedly recommend adding a couple of tins to your regular weekly shop. In any of my curry recipes that call for meat, you can happily substitute butter beans, which absorb flavours and juices so well and have the bonus of living dormant at the back of the storecupboard waiting to be called on. They are truly one of the most biddable, useful and hardworking ingredients in your kitchen. This dish is really tangy a