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    Home » Recipes » Easy Curried Potatoes and Green Beans

    Easy Curried Potatoes and Green Beans

    Published: Sep 28, 2017 · Modified: Jun 20, 2022 by Linda Baker · This post may contain affiliate links

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    Easy Curried Potatoes and Green Beans is a super simple recipe that combines waxy potatoes with green beans in a light curry sauce to create a quick, yet delicious side dish.

    Curried Potatoes combines with green beans in a large saute pan.

    The making of Easy Curried Potatoes and Green Beans

    It was my birthday last weekend.

    Thank you, thank you all for your good wishes.

    BB and I decided to take a short trip to the redwoods that lay just a few hours north of us and lucky for me, my Mom's and sisters houses are on the way so we plan to stop and have a short visit, a bite to eat, and then on to our destination, The Historic Benbow Inn.

    My sister and her guy come up the hill to my mom's house carrying a basket full of produce from their garden. Lunch!

    We thought our garden was going to be great this year. We had layed straw over the beds all winter which we hoed in to provide organic matter. I fed the plants at least twice. I doubled down on water. But it didn't flourish. It only existed. Lackluster. Unimpressive.

    Their produce was beautiful. Large, ripe, happy veggies.

    I took a tour of the garden and low and behold, discovered that plants like a lot more food and a lot more water than I was providing. While they watered daily to begin the plants, mine had gotten a twice-weekly watering. They used compost tea weekly. I weakly used organic plant food. Their plants were robust. And highly productive.

    Next year.

    But they did send me home with a birthday present bag filled with ripe tomatoes, freshly harvested potatoes, tomatillos, squash, and green beans.

    When we returned home from our relaxing weekend communing with nature, in radio silence, I needed to use my beautiful fresh produce while it was still beautiful and fresh. Easy Curried Potatoes and Green Beans is what I came up with. A recipe loosely based on a memory of a recipe from Cooking Light circa 1999.

    cooking up some easy curried potatoes and green beans

    The Potatoes

    For this recipe, you want to use a waxy potato. Perfect are red-skinned, Yukon gold, or even Peruvian purple. The red-skinned and Yukon gold, however, will show the curry colors more so than the purple potato.

    After scrubbing, cut the potatoes into a fairly small dice, just bite-sized. That way they will fully cook at the same time as the green beans. If you want larger pieces of potato then start them first with the spices and chicken stock adding the green beans after the potato is just beginning to soften.

    The Green Beans

    Most green beans you get in the grocery stores are stringless. Sometimes, when you purchase from a farmers market or grow them yourself, you have to pull the fibrous string off. To do this grasp the stem end firmly between your thumb and index finger, pull the tip down toward its seam, and with a quick, even motion draw the broken tip down along the seam to remove the string.

    Trim the ends, cut into pieces.

    The Tomatoes

    If using fresh tomatoes, you can use any type or color. No need to peel, but you can if you like. If the tomato is particularly seedy, you may want to squeeze some of the seeds out. But you don't have to. Because fresh tomatoes break down better than canned, I use more. Canned tomato can be used in the winter months, but this dish is best when made with fresh.

    What is Sumac?

    Sumac comes from the berries of a wild bush that grows wild in all Mediterranean areas, especially in Sicily and southern Italy, and parts of the Middle East. It is an essential ingredient in Arabic cooking, being preferred to lemon for sourness and astringency.

    If fresh the berries can be dried and ground then sprinkled into the dish. Or you can seep them in hot water, mashing them to release their juice, and then use the resulting liquid as one might use lemon juice. Ground sumac keeps well if kept away from light and air.

    If you don't have any sumac on hand you could use lemon zest mixed with a bit of salt in its place.

    So overall, in about really 20 minutes time, you can have this interesting, flavorful, side on the table. Keep your main dish simple, like a Simple Roast Chicken, or fish fillets allowing the vegetables to shine.

    curried potatoes and green beans in a pan

    Easy Curried Potatoes and Green Beans

    Curried Potatoes combines with green beans in a large saute pan.

    Easy Curried Potatoes and Green Beans

    LindySez
    This super simple recipe combines waxy potatoes with green beans in a light curry sauce to create a quick, yet delicious side dish.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 20 mins
    Total Time 30 mins
    Course Side Dish
    Cuisine American, Indian
    Servings 4 servings

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil or ghee or combo of the two
    • 1 cup diced onion about ½ large
    • 1 pound red or Yukon gold potatoes scrubbed and cut into small cubes
    • 8 ounces green beans trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
    • Salt and freshly ground pepper
    • 1 ½ teaspoons curry powder or to taste
    • ½ teaspoon turmeric
    • ½ teaspoon sumac optional
    • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper optional
    • ½ to 1 cup low-sodium chicken stock
    • 1 cup fresh diced tomato or ½ cup canned diced tomato
    • Fresh chopped cilantro or parsley if you don't like cilantro

    Instructions
     

    • Heat the oil or ghee in a large saute pan over medium heat; when hot add the onions and cook for about 2 minutes or until translucent. Add the potatoes, green beans, salt, pepper, curry powder, turmeric, and sumac, if using. Saute for about 2 minutes, or until the spices are fragrant. Stir in cayenne and chicken stock, cover and cook for about 10 minutes, or until the potatoes and beans are tender. Uncover; stir in the tomatoes and cook, stirring gently, until all the liquid has evaporated. Taste and adjust seasonings. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve.
    Keyword fresh, side dish, vegetable
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