Green Beans with Mustard

Name: Green Beans with Mustard
Yield: Serve 4 to 6 unless otherwise stated.
Ingredients: 1½ cups unsweetened red grape juice; 1 cup red wine vinegar; 2¼ cups brown mustard seed; ½ cup sliced almonds; ⅔ cup pine nuts; 1 tbsp salt; 2 tsp cumin seed, freshly ground; ½ fresh hot green chili pepper, seeded and minced; 1 large clove of garlic, minced; 1 lb green beans; 2 tbsp mustard oil; ½ tsp mustard seed; ½ tsp cumin seed; 1 tsp Roman mustard; Salt

Preparation info

Serve
4 to 6
unless otherwise stated.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies Obsessions

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1999

About

This dish calls for Roman mustard, which is a coarse-grained mustard based on Apicius’s recipe.

Ingredients

2¼ cups brown mustard seed
1 cup red wine vinegar
1½

Side dish
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

To make about 3½ cups of Roman mustard, combine the mustard seed, vinegar, and grape juice, and mix in the salt and cumin. Leave to soak, covered but not sealed, for 36-48 hours. Put into a food processor and work for 1-2 minutes or until coarsely ground, then add the almonds and pine nuts and work very briefly until they are completely broken up, not over-processed.

Trim the beans, the