Lebanese green beans stew
Lebanese green beans stew

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lebanese green beans stew. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lebanese green beans stew is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lebanese green beans stew is something which I have loved my whole life.

While Lebanese stewed green beans are typically made with beef and served over rice pilaf, we also enjoy eating them as a vegetarian side dish topped with a dollop of plain yogurt or cucumber laban. The star of the dish is the rich tomato sauce seasoned with warm Lebanese spices including cinnamon. Green beans, tomatoes, almonds and chickpeas are simmered up in a lightly spiced tomato base to make this cozy and flavorful Lebanese green bean stew. Waiting tables is rough work—I know because I did it for years.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lebanese green beans stew using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese green beans stew:
  1. Take 250 g green beans, cut into smaller pieces
  2. Take 200 g meat cubes (beef or lamb or both)
  3. Take 1 medium chopped onion
  4. Take Salt
  5. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Black pepper
  6. Prepare Bay leaf and cinnamon stick
  7. Take Oil to fry the meat
  8. Get Water
  9. Take Additional flavors
  10. Prepare 1 chopped garlic clove
  11. Make ready Small pinch of coriander
  12. Prepare 1 tablespoon olive oil

It also has a good quantity of cumin, which is one of my favourite spices. Leah suggests this is served a main dish, with crusty wholewheat bread or pitta bread; and that is how I will be serving it. A simple, hearty green bean, tomato, and beef stew. I grew up eating Lebanese food.

Instructions to make Lebanese green beans stew:
  1. Start with frying the meat cubes with the bay leaf, the cinnamon stick, and half teaspoon of black pepper
  2. DO NOT add the salt at this point. If you add salt the meat will release its water and dry out.
  3. Cook the meat until brown, then add the green beans, the chopped onion, and the salt. Cover and cook on low heat for 20 minutes.
  4. Check the beans after 10min and flip them a few times. But don’t mix with spoon because it will break the green beans 💔
  5. After 20 min, add warm (not boiling) water. Cover again and let it simmer for 30 minutes.
  6. Optional: fry the chopped coriander and garlic in a tablespoon of olive oil. (Those three ingredients together will release my favorite and the most amazing smell in the kitchen 😍😍😍)
  7. Add the fried corianger and garlic to the green beans stew 5 minutes before you turn the heat off. Remove the bay leaf and cinnamon stick.
  8. Serve with rice on the side and enjoy!

A simple, hearty green bean, tomato, and beef stew. I grew up eating Lebanese food. My grandmother used to have us over for dinner every Wednesday and she only made traditional Lebanese food. Only once can I remember that she made pizza but it was like no other pizza I had ever had. Lebanese Fasolia - (Kidney Bean Stew) is just one of those dishes that I'll never get sick of.

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