{"id":847,"date":"2007-06-05T21:08:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2007\/06\/05\/greens-beanssesame-kura\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T02:01:30","slug":"greens-beanssesame-kura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2007\/06\/05\/greens-beanssesame-kura\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens Beans~Sesame Kura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green beans are available year-round here in frozen section, but they cannot compete with farm-fresh green beans of early summer time. Bright green and crisp textured, garden-fresh green beans still have that youth essence we cherish so much and I feel that this is the best time to cook\/curry them. <\/p>\n<p>The following is one of my favorite green bean recipes from <em>maa amma<\/em> (my mother). Relatively inexpensive, easy to prepare, green beans~sesame kura captures the spirit of traditional Andhra Summer menus.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/greenbeans\/beansnuvvulakuraimagecopyrighted1.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Fresh Green Beans and Sesame Seeds<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recipe:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Fresh green beans: Ends removed and cut into half-inch length pieces, about 3 cups.<br \/>\nOnion &#8211; finely chopped, about half cup<br \/>\n2 Green chillies &#8211; finely chopped<br \/>\n<em>Popu or tadka<\/em> Ingredients:<br \/>\n&frac12; tsp each- minced garlic, cumin, mustard seeds and curry leaves<br \/>\nSesame powder:<br \/>\nPowder together, &frac14; cup toasted sesame seeds and &frac12; tsp each- chilli powder, salt and sugar<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>In a wide skillet, heat about a teaspoon of oil. Add and toast <em>popu or tadka<\/em> ingredients listed above. When mustard seeds start to splutter add the onion and saute to soft. <\/p>\n<p>Add green beans and green chilli. Cook covered, until they soften little bit, for about five minutes. At this stage, sprinkle sesame powder and a pinch of turmeric. Mix thoroughly, cook uncovered, mixing in-between. (Have a taste and add salt if needed.) Take care not to over-cook and turn off the heat when there is still some crunch left in green beans. Serve warm with chapatis or with sorghum rotis.<\/p>\n<p>I have also added a fistful of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2007\/06\/04\/series-of-sprouts-black-chickpea-sprouts\/\" target=\"_blank\">steam-cooked black chickpea sprouts<\/a> from yesterday to this curry. Coated with sesame-spice powder and in combination of green beans, they tasted quite good.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/greenbeans\/beansnuvvulakuraimagecopyrighted2.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Green Beans~Sesame Kura with Chapatis ~ Dinner Today<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p><small>Notes:<br \/>\nKura (Telugu) = Curry (English)<br \/>\n<\/small><!--a18f8ea9a136bdac0ede862c742a5306--><!--4df8d21d351ac7761ebb00aedde051d8--><!--90f976339bed999da6f6af8f78fada15--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green beans are available year-round here in frozen section, but they cannot compete with farm-fresh green beans of early summer time. Bright green and crisp textured, garden-fresh green beans still have that youth essence we cherish so much and I feel that this is the best time to cook\/curry them. The following is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,47,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic-andhra","category-beans","category-sesame-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}