Indoneasian Green Beans

The Blog Tech and his wife should be landing in Philedelphia as I type this. They are on their very long trip home from Bali. Those two foodies are going to go into exotic food shock after eating such a wide array of Indonesian food for the last two weeks.They sent me daily pics of everything they ate. Lucky for them, I learned how to cook Indonesian food when I lived in Toronto. I got up early this morning and have been cooking them a Bali feast. I started by making them the most popular vegetable recipe in that part of the world, green beans.

1/4 kg of green beans
3 tablespoons of chopped onions
1 clove of garlic
1 teaspoon sambal oelek and 1/2 teaspoon terasi – shrimp paste)
1 teaspoon of minced ginger
1 teaspoon of Javanese sugar or brown sugar
1 stalk of lemongrass
1 salam leaf
1/4 cup coconut cream (what's on top of the can)
2 tablespoons of oil
some salt
Bean sprouts

Clean the green beans and set them aside. Put the next 7 ingredients in your food processor and blend them into a paste. Add the paste to a few tablespoons of oil in a heavy pot and cook it stirring for about 4 minutes. Add the green beans and cook stirring often until they soften. Don't overcook them. Sprinkle with some salt.