So Baguskas was going to take lima beans to a grade school class and teach them about how plants grow, for (bio)Geography Awareness Week. But the teacher canceled, so she had a bunch of soaked beans with no home, and she didn't want to eat them. Lima beans are one of only a few food items that I've cooked and thrown away (Sharon knows the other) so I was fearful of them, but wanted revenge, too. Cooked them up and they smelled good and tasted alright. Decided to go with a south Indian curry, so made the curry sauce and added the beans. Lima beans are huge, like small chunks of tofu, so it worked. It maybe tasted a little more like a healthy thing than a tasty thing, but it's alright. Also in the pic is a dollop of peach chutney that I made in the summer of 2008, pre-blog.
Lima Bean Curry recipe:
(mostly based on the Jamie O recipe for south indian curry)
2t mustard seeds
1t fenugreek seeds
curry leaves
couple of chilies
2 onions
some garlic
some ginger
1t turmeric
1t chili powder
14oz can coconut milk
salt
cooked lima beans
bunch of cilantro
Heat oil, add mustard seeds, cover, wait for the 'pop'
add fenugreek seeds
add curry leaves, chilies
blend up onion/garlic/ginger, add, cook down, uncovered
add turmeric and chili powder
add coconut milk, cook 10 min or so
add beans, cook 10 min or so
puree cilantro in blender, add at end, off heat, to keep color
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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