Lebanese-Style Green Bean Stew

"This recipe comes from Leah Leneman’s book “Easy Vegan Cooking”. 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. Leah suggests this is served a main dish, with crusty wholewheat bread or pitta bread; and that is how I will be serving it. Recipe posted for the Zaar World Tour 2005"
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
4
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ingredients

  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 12 lb potato, peeled and chopped into small pieces
  • 34 lb green beans, topped and tailed (long beans cut in half)
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin
  • 1 pinch cayenne pepper
  • 1 (14 ounce) can tomatoes
  • salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste
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directions

  • In a large saucepan, fry the onion in the oil for 2 – 3 minutes then add the potatoes and continue cooking for another 3 – 4 minutes, stirring frequently.
  • Add the beans, sprinkle over the cumin and cayenne and mix well together.
  • Whizz the tomatoes in a blender, then add the liquidized tomatoes to the pan; stir the contents, bring to the boil, cover and leave to simmer over a medium-low heat for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • When the beans and potato are tender and tomatoes have reduced to a thick sauce, test for seasoning, adding salt and pepper as required; serve immediately.

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Reviews

  1. This was a tasty dish, which was really easy to make. I cut the potato into quite small pieces and they were cooked through. Thank you for posting this.
     
  2. This is really good. I precooked the potatoes like another reviewer and used frozen green beans & canola oil for the vegetable oil. I would make this again maybe with meat too.
     
  3. Excellent recipe! I didn't have canned tomatoes so I used fresh and this turned out beautifully. It was thicker than I expected so I served it with couscous...a great compliment to your dish. Thanks for the easy and very delicious recipe. :-)
     
  4. This was wonderful, a nice change from most other green bean dishes.
     
  5. This dish was delicious, but next time I will pre-cook the potatoes in the microwave first as they took quite a long time to become tender, I also added a small clove of finely minced garlic. Very tasty and will make again as it was very easy. I also used frozen beans as I didn't have fresh.
     
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I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London. I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too! I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food! I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly. As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too. If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
 
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