Okra with bean mash

Ingredients:

• 1 lemon
• 6 cloves of garlic (about 30g)
• 30g tomato paste
• 30g olive oil
• 2 teaspoons cumin powder
• 0.5 teaspoon Kashmiri chilli powder
• 0.25 teaspoon salt

• 350g okra
• 1 red onion
• 2 tomatoes

• 700g pre-cooked white beans (white kidney beans, butter beans, etc.)
• 0.25 teaspoon salt
• 40g lemon juice

Methods:

• Peel the lemon and finely chop the zest strips, you should have about 10g. Place it in a bowl together with roughly chopped garlic cloves, tomato paste, olive oil, cumin powder, chilli powder and salt. Handblender everything into a paste.
• Steam the okra until almost ready.
• Pre-heat a frying pan with a bit of olive oil. Cut the onion into 8 wedges, and start frying it. Add the okra to finish cooking it in the pan.
• Meanwhile, warm up the beans in the microwave.
• Cut the tomatoes into 8 wedges. Add them into the pan. Add the lemon zest paste to the pan and mix everything together.
• Add salt and lemon juice to the beans. Handblender into a mash. Taste and adjust salt and acidity (lemon juice).
• Serve bean mash topped with veggies.