Green Bean Subji

Green Bean Subji Recipe

Whoever said vegetables are boring and time-consuming needs a rap across the pork knuckles. This delicious side dish will sit front and centre on the dining table and can be made in minutes. It’s bursting with flavour, thanks to the addition of traditional and exotic Indian spices. The coconut gives it a subtly sweet taste that will turn this simple green bean dish into a hero.

Serves: 4-6 as a side

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Green Bean Subji Recipe

By: Lee Holmes

This green bean dish is bursting with flavour, thanks to the addition of traditional and exotic Indian spices.


Servings

4-6 as a side

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp ghee or extra-virgin olive oil
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • ½ tsp black mustard seeds
  • ¼ tsp ground turmeric
  • ½ tsp garam masala
  • ½ onion, chopped
  • 2½cm piece ginger, peeled & finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 tbsp shredded coconut
  • 2 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
  • 500g green beans, sliced
  • ½ tsp Celtic sea salt

Method


  • Heat ghee in medium frying pan over medium heat. Add cumin and mustard seeds and cook until mustard seeds have popped. Add turmeric, garam masala and onion and cook for 3–4 mins or until onion is translucent.
  • Stir through ginger, garlic, coconut and coriander then add beans. Reduce heat to low then cover and cook until beans are soft, adding a little filtered water if beans get too dry.
  • Season with salt and serve.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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