Runner Beans with Lamb

This tasty Parsi dish is known as papri ma gosht, which has a wonderful thyme-like aroma from the ajwain/carom seeds, so it’s important not to leave them out! When the Parsis fled Persia (modern-day Iran) they settled in Gujarat, where they were introduced to a vegetable known as papri, which looks and tastes similar to a small European runner bean, and began using it in their cooking, often combining it with goat and lamb meat. In India, this recipe is typically made in a pre