Beans with Walnuts and Spices

Nestan Nikoladze’s wonderfully complex bean recipe includes pounded walnuts and the dried petals and fresh leaves of the orange French marigold plant, Tagetes patula. The leaves are more pungent, with a distinct, vegetal note that gives these beans an extra dimension. Nestan works all the flavouring ingredients in her mortar and pestle. That’s the best way, but a food processor also produces a great result.