Lobio is a popular dish of Georgian cuisine. The Georgian word "lobio" is also a common name for beans (both young green, in the form of pods, and ripe dry beans). Dishes similar to the Georgian lobio are known in culinary traditions and many other peoples.
Lobio is prepared from green beans or from ordinary (white or color) with the addition of garlic, spices, herbs, sometimes with pomegranate seeds, nuts, tomatoes, pepper.
The recipe for lobio from red beans
Ingredients:
- red bean - 2 cups;
- kernels of walnut or forest nuts - 1 glass;
- garlic - 3-5 denticles;
- coriander seeds ground;
- red hot pepper;
- fresh fresh herbs (cilantro, basil, parsley, etc.);
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
Beans are best filled with water from the evening, although you can speed up the process if you fill it with boiling water 2-3 times. Then she must stand, at least an hour. 4. We wash the beans, pour water and bring to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes and drain the water. We wash beans, fill it with fresh water and cook until ready.
How to make lobio from beans? You can crush ready beans, but this is not necessary, you can leave it whole. Nuts need to grind and add to the beans. A little cool and add all the specified seasonings, butter, chopped garlic and greens. Lobio is served well with meat dishes, pomegranate sauce or juice, good table wine.
The recipe for cooking lobio from white beans is no different from the previous one. White beans are also very useful product, but color is definitely more useful.
Lobio from green beans
Of course, the string bean is a super-useful product, besides it is prepared faster than in grains.
Fresh beans must be prepared, that is, remove the pedicels and tips of the pods, and cut each pod into 2-4 parts. In the season of beans that is not seasonal for green beans, it is possible to use a ready-made semi-finished shock frost for cooking. Almost all vitamins and nutrients in such a product are preserved, pre-cooked to half-ready, the beans are very quickly brought to full readiness.
Ingredients:
- string beans - 500 g;
- onion - 1-2 pcs .;
- tomatoes ripe - 3-4 pcs. (or 2 tablespoons of tomato paste);
- a little sunflower oil;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- hot red pepper;
- fresh fresh herbs (more coriander, parsley, basil, etc.).
Preparation
Sliced beans are cooked and boiled and decocted into a separate container.
Prepare the sauce. Blanched tomatoes and finely chopped with a knife.
Finely chopped onion lightly fry in a frying pan in oil. Add chopped tomatoes or tomato paste and a little broth. Stew for about 5-8 minutes with spices. Mix the boiled beans and the contents of the pan. Slightly cool and season with crushed garlic and hot pepper. Sprinkle with chopped herbs. The green lobio is especially suitable for meat dishes.
In a hurry, you can cook lobio from canned beans, then the recipe is genius in general. We open a jar of canned
Of course, you can prepare a lobio from a bean in a multivark. Cook the beans in the multivark until ready (time and mode for specific devices are somewhat different, the explanations in the instructions). A sauce is best prepared separately in a conventional frying pan.
Cook the lobio more often - the dish is extremely useful and tasty. In addition, although the beans - food and nourishing, but it allows you to keep a slim figure.