North Indian
French Beans Aloo
French Beans Aloo is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb green beans
- 2 potatoes
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1/4 tsp red chili powder
- 3 tbsp neutral oil
- 3 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 3/4 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Trim and chop the green beans and cut the potatoes into small cubes.
- Heat the oil in a pan and let the cumin seeds sizzle, then cook the onion and garlic until soft, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the turmeric, coriander, and chili powder, then add the potatoes and beans and season with salt.
- Toss to coat, add a small splash of water, cover, and cook on medium-low until tender, about 16 minutes.
- Uncover and cook off any water, finish with cilantro, and serve hot with roti.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside French Beans Aloo, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. French Beans Aloo carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
French Beans Aloo takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on green bean, potato, and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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