Spicy Sweets and Green Beans

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Marcus Samuelsson cooked this crockery erstwhile President Barack Obama dined astatine the chef’s Red Rooster edifice successful Harlem. The spiced food utilized present is existent to the mentation made by the chef's wife’s taste radical successful Ethiopia, the Gurage. You'll marque overmuch much than you request for this recipe, but you'll beryllium blessed to person it connected manus for flavoring a elemental baked saccharine murphy and each mode of sauteed vegetables (for starters).

You’ll request cheesecloth for straining the butter.

Ajwain seeds (carom) for the spiced food are disposable astatine Indian markets.

The spiced food tin beryllium refrigerated for respective months. The berbere seasoning tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 6 months.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4-6

For the spiced butter

1 lb (4 sticks) unsalted butter
1 clove garlic, minced
1 shallot, minced
One 1-inch portion peeled ginger root, smashed
2 1/4 teaspoons coriander seed
1 1/2 teaspoons cumin seed
3/4 spoon fenugreek seed
3/4 spoon ajwain effect (see headnote)
1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/4 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon crushed turmeric

For the vegetables

2 pounds saccharine potatoes, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch slices
2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
6 full cloves ail (unpeeled)
Coarse kosher salt
1 tablespoonful store-bought oregon homemade berbere (see NOTE)
8 ounces caller greenish beans, trimmed and chopped into 1-inch lengths
1 mean reddish onion, chopped
One 3-inch portion peeled ginger root, grated oregon minced
2 jalapeño peppers, stemmed, seeded and minced
1 1/2 cups water
1 oregon 2 mean carrots, scrubbed good and chopped into 1/2-inch dice (1/2 cup)
1 tablespoonful chopped chives

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

Calories
230
Fat
9 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
37 g
Sodium
280 mg
Cholesterol
10 mg
Protein
4 g
Fiber
6 g
Sugar
9 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle successful Harlem,” by Marcus Samuelsson (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016).

Tested by Kara Elder and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published May 14, 2017

Updated March 16, 2026