Charred green beans with anchovy dressing and seed dukkah

April 2025

Ingredients

300ggreen beans, trimmed
150grunner beans, trimmed
10gpicked basil
10gpicked greek oregano
FOR THE ANCHOVY DRESSING
45mlolive oil
5anchovies
2garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
2sprigs greek oregano, leaves picked
PICKLED CHILLIES
1red chilli, thinly sliced at an angle
2lemons, squeezed for 3 ½ tbsp juice
½ tspcaster sugar
½ tspsalt
SEED DUKKAH
2 tspcoriander seeds, toasted
2 tspwhite sesame seeds, toasted
1 tsp nigella seeds
¼ tspcaster sugar
¼ tspflaked sea salt
1 tsp aleppo chilli

Method

  1. First make the anchovy dressing. Place a small frying pan on medium high heat with the oil, garlic, anchovy and oregano. Cook for 2-3 minutes until the anchovies have broken down and the garlic is smelling fragrant. Set aside to cool.
  2. To make the pickled chillies, place the chillies, lemon juice, sugar and salt in a small bowl. Mix well and set aside to pickle while you get on with the rest.
  3. Next, make the dukkah. Place all of the ingredients in a pestle and mortar and grind until lightly broken.
  4. To char the beans, place them on a large tray with ½ tbsp olive oil and mix well. Ventilate the kitchen well and place a large saute pan on high heat. Once smoking, char the beans in three or four batches, using tongs to flip them over so they char uniformly. Set aside on the tray to cool.
    To assemble, spoon in 2 tbsp of the chilli pickling liquid into the anchovy dressing and mix well.
  5. Arrange some of the beans on a lipped platter with some of the picked herbs. Spoon over some of the anchovy dressing and pickled chillies, Sprinkle over some of the dukkah with the herbs and continue in a similar manner until all of the ingredients have been used up. Serve warm or at room temperature.