Most of us have ‘go to’ recipes… something quick and delicious that you can make on an instance without even thinking.

This one is so crazy simple, you can literally make it in minutes. Makes a great side dish, cold you can jazz up any salad throwing some of these green beans in too!

And today, I mixed it up a little substituting one ingredient – super yum!

Interested?

Everyday French Beans

Here goes:

• Green beans, sliced roughly in 3 inch bits – can parboil first but not required

Then in a non-stick pan

• Heat a dollop of oil on high
• Drop in 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin seeds, yellow or brown mustard seeds and sesame or sunflower seeds
• They should start to pop and sizzle almost immediately
• Thrown in the green beans
• Then a dash of salt and cayenne pepper
• Just keep tossing around for a few minutes until everything gets nice and toasty – it is best when the green beans get a bit ‘singed’ to bring out a roasted flavour

Today I substituted sunflower for sesame seeds – wow! Will definitely do a repeat of that… maybe experiment with other seeds too…

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