Potatoes and Beans - Creamy and Crunchy

We'd just come back from Inorbit Mall. Sunday evening? NOT a good idea. At any point, there are 2 people in a 2 feet radius around you. But well, that's India. That's home.

We'd gone to Hyper City to pick up veggies. I was very excited because I was to make dinner today. A meat dish with potatoes and beans as a side dish. We went into the meat section to pick up mutton. Apart from raw meat, they also have marinated meat at semi-cooked meat. While we were looking for the meat, one of us spotted these delicious looking kebabs. Hard to resist, isn't it? So well, down went my meat plan. My suggestion of taking 6 kebabs was met by incredulous looks from Mama and Dada. We ended up taking 3 mutton sheekh kebabs (3, only only because a fourth wasn't available).

We had quite a little adventure in the seafood section. There's a tank that they keep live cat fish in. As I was moving along to take a look at some interesting fish, one of the live fish jumped out of the tank and landed on the floor!! One of the guys tried to catch it but it just kept slithering out of his reach. The guy then started stoking the fish and it slowly calmed down. He then grabbed it instantaneously and plunged it back into water. Ha... That was quite something!!

So anyways, we went on to the vegetables section. I picked up my veggies and we all went home... Oh!! I forgot about our wine glass shopping, but on that some other time!

Now, to go on to the recipe. This is a REALLY simple recipe. Just throw in everything in a baking dish and grill. That's all it takes.

One of the highlights of this dish is the garlic. The thing about keeping the skin of the garlic on, is that in gets roasted beautifully from the inside, and tastes delicious after grilling.
The pepperoncino chilies may be difficult to get your hands on, so feel free to leave them out. I bet the dish will taste perfect without them too!!

So go ahead and try this out. It's DELICIOUS!!

Ingredients:

·         8 small potatoes, halved.

·         2 bunches of beans (around 20) with tips removed.

·         3 pepperoncino chilies (dried from Naples).

·         Garlic Pods with jacket on

·         Paprika

·         Olive oil

·         Butter

·         Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

1.       Preheat oven on “grill”.

2.       Wash the potatoes and beans.

3.       Put them into a glass baking dish.

4.       Throw in the pepperoncino and garlic pods.

5.       Sprinkle the paprika, salt, and pepper.

6.       Drizzle the olive oil.

7.       Mix in the butter.

8.       Give everything a good mix.

9.       Grill in oven for 30 mins.

10.   Serve hot as side dish with continental main dish.