Afghan-Style Vegetables

Name: Afghan-Style Vegetables
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 4 cups, 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 4 large onions; 1/2-1 head garlic; 1/8-1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil; 2 quarts chopped fresh tomatoes or 2 quarts canned tomatoes; 1 teaspoon sugar; salt & fresh ground pepper; 2 cups water or 2 cups broth; 2 -3 cups vegetables, cut into very large pieces; lime juice (optional); thyme or basil

Submitted by Deerwoman

"A delicious and inexpensive side dish to go with meat or chicken and rice. Vegetable simmered in tomato-based homemade sauce. Vegetables can be anything that can be cut up and simmered, or any combination. Suggestions: potato, caulifower, eggplant, zucchini, green beans. We learned the basic cooking technique from Afghan friends and vary it to our mood."

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Ready In:: 2hrs 15mins
Ingredients:: 10
Yields:: 4 cups
Serves:: 4

ingredients

The sauce
4 large onions
¹⁄₂ - 1 head garlic
¹⁄₈ - ¹⁄₄ cup extra virgin olive oil
2 quarts chopped fresh tomatoes or 2 quarts canned tomatoes
1 teaspoon sugar
salt & fresh ground pepper
2 cups water or 2 cups broth
Vegetables
2 -3 cups vegetables, cut into very large pieces
lime juice (optional)
Spices
thyme or basil

directions

Put onion and garlic into food processor. process until coarsely chopped.
Saute in olive oil until onions are tender.
Add tomatoes. Simmer 1 hour or more, until tomatoes are cooked and juice reduces.
Add pinch of sugar, salt and pepper to taste.
USE 1 cup for vegetables and STORE the rest in refrigerator/freezer for other uses.
It is important not to skimp on the onions and garlic. It will be too tomatoey otherwise.
Add vegetables and desired seasonings to the 1 cup sauce and broth. Simmer in pot over very low heat until vegetables are tender and have absorbed the sauce flavor.
Add vegetable that take longest to cook first and then potatoes and other quicker cooking vegetable later.
This is one of our favorite ways to eat cauliflower. Try it.
This dish often has split yellow peas to add body and protein, delicious.

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Deerwoman

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I love food and love to cook, thanks to my mother who loved to cook and taught me to appreciate it. What a gift! But I went farther than that and love to explore food from all over the world. I have so many condiments and spices that my huge lazy susan is tipping over and I have spices etc in the back closet by the garage and in the basement. My husband is Iranian. We both cook Iranian food, and Afghan food too as our adopted "family" here is Afghan. I recently learned some great Ghanaian dishes from friends from there. And great Calabrese recipes from my closest friend. I also design jewelry with the same passion that I cook.

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