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How to Make Green Bean Stew
Total time75 min
Prep25 min
Cook50 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyMedium
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Soups and stews

ChefFatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

How to Make Green Bean Stew

Green bean stew is delicious, healthy, and flavorful, especially since green beans are in season and readily available now. This green bean stew is cooked with meat and served with vermicelli rice.

Green bean stew... Green beans are delicious cooked in oil or with meat, especially when they are in season.

Ingredients

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  • 1 kilo green beans
  • 1/2 kilo meat, cut into small pieces, or bone-in meat as desired
  • 6 tomatoes
  • 1 onion
  • 1 head of garlic
  • a bunch of fresh cilantro
  • small can of tomato paste or equivalent to 2 tablespoons
  • 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses
  • hot chili powder to taste
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • vegetable oil
  • meat seasoning
  • For more stews, here is the link: How to prepare pistachio stew

Method

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  1. Trim the ends of the green beans, wash them, and let them drain.
  2. Finely dice the garlic and onion, and finely chop the cilantro.
  3. Place the garlic, onion, and cilantro in a pot over heat with three tablespoons of vegetable oil, a pinch of salt, a pinch of black pepper, and a pinch of meat spice, then stir.
  4. When they soften, add the meat and stir. Then cover the pot and leave it over medium to low heat.
  5. Continue stirring the meat occasionally until it browns and is almost cooked.
  6. Add the green beans and stir until they are half-cooked.
  7. Add the tomatoes, cut into quarters, along with the tomato paste and pomegranate molasses, then stir.
  8. Immediately after, cover the ingredients with hot water and leave the pot over high heat until it boils.
  9. After boiling, reduce the heat and let the green bean stew simmer for one hour over low heat.
  10. Serve the green bean stew with vermicelli rice.

Recipe tags

Soups and stewsInternationalVegetarianVeganDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg freeMediumLong cook

Notes and serving ideas

  • How to Prepare Pistachio Stew

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Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

If you see a recipe written as poetry, it’s surely Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch—known as Umm Badr—who posted it. Between mawawil and rhymed prose, her rice dishes arrive effortlessly and win the admiration of everyone in our group.

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