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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

7 Green beans Recipes From 6 Cuisines.

The everyday summer vegetable of half the world's home kitchens. Cooked briefly they stay squeaky and bright; stewed for an hour with tomato and olive oil, as in Greek fasolakia or Turkish taze fasulye, they collapse into something soft and deeply savory, and both approaches are correct. Blanching and shocking in cold water locks in the color before a stir-fry or salad. Snap one in half raw: a clean crack means it is fresh.

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Kare-kare in an earthenware pot: oxtail in thick orange peanut sauce topped with eggplant, long beans and bok choy

Philippines4 hr 10 min

Kare-Kare

Filipino Oxtail Peanut Stew

Thick Luang Prabang or lam stew with long beans, wood ear mushrooms, eggplant and fresh dill in a clay bowl

Laos1 hr 30 min

Or Lam

Luang Prabang Herb and Eggplant Stew

Open cast-iron three-legged pot over coals showing layered beef, potatoes, carrots and green beans in dark gravy

South Africa3 hr 45 min

Potjiekos

South African Three-Legged Pot Stew

Platter of poulet DG with browned chicken pieces, golden fried plantain, carrot batons and green beans in red sauce

Cameroon1 hr 45 min

Poulet DG

Cameroonian Chicken with Fried Plantain

Thick Khmer vegetable and fish stew in a clay bowl with pumpkin, jackfruit, long beans and green leaves

Cambodia1 hr 20 min

Samlor Korko

Khmer Mixed Vegetable and Fish Stew

Bowl of Khmer coconut chicken curry with sweet potato and long beans, a torn baguette resting on the rim

Cambodia1 hr 5 min

Somlar Kari

Khmer Coconut Chicken Curry

An opened Costa Rican Christmas tamale on a plantain leaf showing orange masa with pork, rice and vegetables

Costa Rica3 hr 50 min

Tamal Navideño

Costa Rican Christmas Tamale

also known asstring beans, haricots verts, boranija

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