Rice Dishes Recipes - Rice and Green Beans Recipe

Ingredients

• 100g/4 oz green beans, halved

• 100g/4 oz basmati rice

• 600ml/1 pt/2 1/2 cups water

• 2.5ml/1/2 tsp ground turmeric

• salt

• 5ml/1 tsp chili powder

• 5ml/1 tsp garam masala

• 15ml/1 tbsp ghee

• pinch of asafetida

• 5ml/1 tsp cumin seeds

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Method:

1. Soak the beans and rice for 30 minutes. Put the mixture into a pan with the water, turmeric, salt, chili powder and garam masala and bring to the boil over a medium heat.

2. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes until the beans are tender. Heat the ghee in a separate pan and fry the asafetida and cumin seeds for 1 minutes. Sprinkle over before serving.