Kerala Green Beans
Photo: Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Be it string beans, Chinese long beans or French haricot verts, the humble green bean is one winter vegetable that is universal throughout the world and prepared dozens of different ways. At first, my only experiences eating green beans were either in a dry sabzi, or cooked vegetable dish — typically overcooked in India — or in a Chinese stir-fry.