Beans With Tomato Yogurt Dressing

Ingredients 

• 20-25 French beans
• Salt to taste
• 3 medium spring onions
• 1 inch ginger piece 
• 5 garlic cloves 
• 1 1/2 cups skimmed milk yogurt
• 1 tablespoon maize flour (makai ka atta)
• 1 cup tomato concasse
• 2 whole dry red chillies,crushed

Method

1. String French beans, wash them and then cut into 3” long pieces. Blanch in salted boiling water until cooked. Strain, (reserve the water to use as stock) refresh in cold water and then drain. Finely chop spring onions.
2. Reserve spring onion greens. Grind ginger and garlic to a fine paste. Slit the cooked beans into two and tie them up in bundles with spring onion greens. Beat skimmed milk yogurt with maize flour. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, add chopped spring onions and cook till they turns translucent. Add ginger-garlic paste.
3. Stir for a few seconds. Add tomato concasse and cook further for 2-3 minutes. Reduce the heat and add beaten skimmed milk yogurt and maize flour mixture, mix well, add salt to taste, and stir continuously. Warm the cooked bean bundles just before serving, in a microwave for one minute on HIGH or by briefly dipping them in boiling hot water or stock. Top with the prepared yogurt sauce. Sprinkle the crushed chillies and serve hot.

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