Lobio

Georgian dish of beans The name of this dish in translation from Georgian is beans. Especially it is loved in Transcaucasia. Prepare the lobio from boiled beans with tomato sauce. Some housewives add pomegranate seeds or walnuts to this dish. In general, there are a lot of variations on the lobio theme and you can choose the one that will suit your taste. But ingredients such as kidney beans, coriander and garlic are the main source of lobio and should not be abandoned. This recipe is also noteworthy and that it is lean. By the way, lobio is cooked with cheese, and with meat. And they serve with lavash. In Georgia this dish acts as a hot or cold snack. But in both cases the cooking technology is different and if you decide to order a lobio in a restaurant or cafe - ask the waiter for the recipe.

Georgian dish of beans The name of this dish in translation from Georgian is beans. Especially it is loved in Transcaucasia. Prepare the lobio from boiled beans with tomato sauce. Some housewives add pomegranate seeds or walnuts to this dish. In general, there are a lot of variations on the lobio theme and you can choose the one that will suit your taste. But ingredients such as kidney beans, coriander and garlic are the main source of lobio and should not be abandoned. This recipe is also noteworthy and that it is lean. By the way, lobio is cooked with cheese, and with meat. And they serve with lavash. In Georgia this dish acts as a hot or cold snack. But in both cases the cooking technology is different and if you decide to order a lobio in a restaurant or cafe - ask the waiter for the recipe.

Ingredients:

• White Beans Dry 500g
• Onion 2 pcs.
• Pepper sweet 1 pc.
• Carrot 1 pc.
• Walnut 100 g
• Tomato juice 250 ml
• Garlic 2 cloves
• Cilantro fresh 1 bunch
• Bay leaf 3 pcs.
• Sunflower refined sunflower oil 3 tbsp. l.
• Basil dry 0.5 tsp.
• Pepper black ground 3 pinch
• Mixture of hops-suneli 0.5 tsp.
• Salt 1 tsp.

Instructions

• Step 1 For this dish, take: dry white beans, red sweet pepper, onions, carrots, garlic, walnuts, a bunch of fresh coriander, a glass of homemade tomato juice (can be replaced with fresh tomatoes), spices.
• Step 2 Beans rinse, pour water and leave overnight.
• Step 3 After that, drain the water in which the beans were soaked, pour in fresh, add a few leaves of laurel pepper and cook for 90 minutes on low heat.
• Step 4 Chop the onions and peppers into large cubes, and cut the carrot into strips.
• Step 5 Peel the nuts from the shell and chop. You can do this with a blender, stupa or knife.
• Step 6 Fry onion, pepper and carrots in a heated frying pan with oil added for 5 minutes. Then add crushed nuts and spices.
• Step 7 Fry the vegetables and nuts for another 5 minutes.
• Step 8 Then add a glass of tomato juice into the pan, cover and simmer for 25-30 minutes.
• Step 9 When the dressing is ready - grind 1 clove of garlic, season with salt and let it brew.
• Step 10 Chop the cilantro and grate the garlic.
• Step 11 Add the vegetable dressing, greens and garlic to the boiled string beans.
• Step 12 Stir well.
• Step 13 Lobio cover and insist for 5 minutes. Serve hot.