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String Beans with Potatoes
(Tema)

This is a vegetarian version of the Tibetan dish
Tema tang Sha (String Beans with Beef).

Ingredients

• 1 lb. string beans

• 2 large potatoes

• ½ small red pepper, thinly sliced

• ½ onion, chopped

• 1 tablespoon oil

• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped

• ½ teaspoon paprika

• 1 inch fresh ginger, finely chopped

• 1 jalapeño chili, coarsely chopped

• ½ tomato, chopped

• 1 teaspoon soy sauce

• salt to taste

This recipe is excerpted from "The Lhasa Moon Tibetan Cookbook", ©1999, by Tsering Wangmo and Zara Houshmand. The cookbook offers the Lhasa Moon Restaurant's most popular Tibetan dishes, with a unique mix of Asian influences and Tibetan regional ones -- cuisine which delights vegetarians and meat lovers alive. Reprinted with permission from the publisher, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, NY. http://snowlionpub.com.
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TSERING WANGMO, owner of Lhasa Moon (a Tibetan restaurant in San Francisco), is also a famous Tibetan actress, singer, and dancer. She is a founding member of Chakasam-pa Tibetan opera troupe in San Francisco. 
ZARA HOUSHMAND is an Iranian-American writer. She is active in modern Iranian theatre, as well as traditional Balinese puppetry, and her own plays have been produced in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. She cooks compulsively for friends and especially enjoys cooking for retreats.