Green beans with chickpea mash
A fine vegetarian dish for those meat free days. Serve with couscous and Mediterranean vegetables to provide a higher quality protein.
Ingredients
1⁄3 pound green beans (ends trimmed if fresh)
2 cups chickpeas (already cooked)
3 tablespoons olive oil
seasoning (salt, peper, ground cumin and coriander)
Instructions
- Boil green beans for 6-8 minutes, or until tender to your taste.
- Warm chickpeas in another pan with a little water.
- Drain beans, return to the pan with 1/3 of the olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and keep cook gently for 1-2 minutes.
- Drain chickpeas if necessary, add the rest of the olive oil, salt and ground pepper, cumin and coriander.
- Mash chickpeas with a potato masher.
- Add chickpea mash to the green beans and serve warm.
Yield
2 servings
Preparation time
10 minutes
Cooking time
8 minutes
Total time
18 minutes
Notes
Green beans with chickpea mash and couscous are a fine light meal, serve with couscous with grilled Mediterranean vegetables, simple couscous or couscous salad.
Add orange zest and juice to the beans when warming with olive oil and serve with Moroccan orange almond couscous. Half and orange should be enough for 2 servings.
Source
very easy, simmer, mash
vegetables, side dishes
North Africa food recipes
Food in Africa
Food in Africa