The market · Vegetables · Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia
Long green beans
Yardlong or snake beans: thinner, denser and less sweet than green beans, they hold up to long stir-frying and pounding in salads.
grassy · sweet · dense
What to do with it
Classics built on it
JavaneseGado-gadoBlanched vegetables, potato, tofu, tempeh, egg and lontong under a thick peanut sauce, with prawn crackers on top.No one here has made it yetJavanesePecelBlanched greens and sprouts under a hot peanut sauce scented with kencur and lime leaf, with rice and a crisp peanut cracker.No one here has made it yetSundaneseKaredokRaw vegetables — long beans, cucumber, sprouts, cabbage, small aubergines and lemon basil — in a peanut sauce sharp with kencur.No one here has made it yetSundaneseLalapan and sambal terasiRaw leaves and vegetables — cucumber, cabbage, lemon basil, long beans, small aubergines — with a sambal of chilli, toasted shrimp paste and tomato.No one here has made it yetBalineseLawarFinely chopped meat, vegetables and grated coconut, mixed with base genep and lime — made fresh for ceremonies and eaten the same day.No one here has made it yet Knowing it
- Where to buy
- Southeast Asian, Chinese and Indian grocers, in bundles. Pick firm, bendy ones with no swelling seeds.
- Worth knowing
- Cut into finger lengths and stir-fry or dry-fry them hard until blistered.
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