Green Beans With Lemon-cardamom Glaze

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 2/3 cups chicken stock
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice, fresh
• 2 teaspoons lemons, zest of, grated
• 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
• 1/2 teaspoon mixed peppercorn, coarsely grated
• 1/4 teaspoon cardamom, ground
• coarse salt
• 2 lbs fresh green beans, trimmed
• 1/2 lemon, rind and pith removed

Recipe

• 1 combine the stock,lemon juice, lemon zest& ginger in a saucepan.
• 2 bring to a boil and continue boiling until reduced to apprx 1/3 cup (apprx 10 minutes).
• 3 stir in the pepper corns, cardamom& salt, set aside.
• 4 meanwhile steam the beans until tender crisp apprx 7 minutes or you may place them in boiling water for apprs 5 minutes- do not over cook they should still be crisp and bright green.
• 5 chop the 1/2 lemon quite fine (you have already removed it from the rind and the pith).
• 6 heat the glaze (chicken stock et al) so it is piping hot just as the beans are finished cooking.
• 7 drain the beans, place on heated serving platter.
• 8 pour glaze over the beans& scatter the chopped lemon on top.