Green Beans Kuku

Ingredients
Serves 4
Green or string beans, 400 g, chopped
Carrots, Medium-sized, 2 nos, chopped
Potato, medium, 1 no, chopped
Eggs, 2 to 3 nos
Walnuts, ground, 1/2 cup
Brewed saffron, 1 tbsp
Onion, fried, 1 tbsp
Milk, 1 tbsp
Baking powder, 1/2 tsp
Salt, pepper and turmeric, as per taste
Directions
Clean and wash the green beans and dry entirely. Then cut them into 1-cm pieces. Peel the carrots and potato and chop into a size, half of the chopped beans. Put the green beans in a pot and let it cook with 1 glass of water, 1 teaspoon of both salt and turmeric. Give it 10 minutes to cook. After this, add in cubed carrots and cook for another 10 minutes. Take care to set the flame so that the heat does n't evaporate all the water. After 10 minutes, add in cubed potatoes and after 5 minutes switch off the flame and let the content gets cool. In a proper-sized mixing bowl, crack 2 eggs and beat with a fork. Then add in baking powder, fried onions , the spices, milk, ground walnuts and saffron. Mix them together thoroughly. Now stir in cooked vegetables and mix with a spoon.
Take care not to stir so much that that the ingredients lose their shape. After mixing them thoroughly, if you feel that the mixture is not thick enough, break in another one egg. And mix again. Refrigerate the mixture for 10 to 15 minutes till marinated and firm. Take a frying pan and put enough oil to cover the whole bottom and reaches 2 mm in height. Heat the oil and pour the prepared mixture inside, flattening with the back of your spatula. Give it time till Kuku gets a little firm. Cover the pan and give it 30 minutes over the mild flame till well-cooked. Once one side is crispy and brown flip it over carefully till the other side is brown too.
Once two sides are cooked, transfer it into a platter and wedge. Bon Appetit!
Green Beans Kuku is one of the formal dishes in the city of Tabriz. Of course, the cuisine is tried in other provinces of the country in different ways but the recipe is the most popular one. In Tabriz, the dish is served in most formal family gatherings as a starter along with soup, which is an indispensable part of the Tabrizi table.
You can make it for a rich dinner. There is another type which is cooked with minced meat and has 2 colors and 2 sides.
The height of the Kuku, depending on the amount of ingredients and frying pan size, is set about 3 to r cm. You can apply the sautéed mushrooms in the mixture.
You can use potato in 2 ways; one which was mentioned above and the other is to fry the cubed potato with turmeric. Spread the mixture in the pan and let it to take shape. Before covering the pan put the fried potatoes over the fairly firm mixture and press potatoes with your spatula till they are placed in the mixture.
Then go on with what was said above. This way you will have a far beautiful dish but the taste is the same.