The easy peasy lemon butter beans

I personally am not a big fan of green beans. To me they are tedious to prep and cook and not very exciting to eat but ever since we've started eating organic vegetables one thing that really makes me happy is the quality of vegetables, so even the beans looked so nice, fleshy and inviting to me that I got some last weekend.

I wasn't too enthused but I have to say, I really liked the final dish and it was pleasantly easy to make. I realized, if I am steaming the beans it's not necessary to cut the beans into small pieces like we do for most Indian preparations. Whoa! With that my problem of the time taken to prep the beans came down drastically. I simply washed them, trimmed the ends and cut them into 1/3rds, next time I thing I'll just trim the ends and steam them whole.

So here's what I did after the cleaning and cutting, I simply tossed some sea salt and put the beans in a steamer along with some butter in a small bowl so that the butter would melt while the beans are being steamed. Once done I simply added the lemon to the butter that had melted nicely and tossed this lovely lemony butter sauce onto the beans and wallah they were ready. Now you see why I had to call it the easy peasy lemon butter beans :) I paired these with some paneer tikka and a nice green salad. Oh yes, we mix it all up.