Step-by-Step Guide to Make Quick Lebanese green beans stew

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lebanese green beans stew. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. I haven't made this yet, but unlike other green bean dishes I've tried, this one includes potatoes. It also has a good quantity of cumin, which is one of my favourite spices.

Lebanese green beans stew is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lebanese green beans stew is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebanese green beans stew using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese green beans stew:

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

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Steps 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. Green beans are cooked in olive oil, hence the title 'b'zeit' and stewed in a basic tomato sauce.

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