How to prepare Lobio from the pod

Anyone, not even a meat dish, Georgian cooks are preparing with such love and thoroughness that it is worthy of the highest praise. An example is the Lobio of the pollar beans, which consists of the beans itself and some of the simplest vegetables. An unforgettable taste of a dish is attached to fragrant spices and of course walnuts.

1

Preparation of beans

Beans in the pods you will need 1 kg.

1. Wash the pods under running water.
2. With the help of a knife or kitchen scissors, cut the tips.
3. If the pods have a rigid long longitudinal accommodation, then definitely remove it. It's easy to do it hooking from one end to the straw with a knife, and then simply pulling her down so that it breaks away.
4. Short pods leave whole, and long cut into two to three parts so that they are approximately 3-4 cm.

The season of fresh podoli bean falls on June a month. At this time, it is still very soft and hard streams in it practically. In winter, cook Lobio from frozen in the summer of pods.

2

Preparation of other vegetables

Onion.Take two major bulbs and remove the upper dry layer from them. Cut into cubes with a size of 1 * 1 cm.

Fresh tomatoes.Tomatoes choose brightly painted and very sweet. All of them will need 300 grams. First, hide the tomatoes with boiling water, then lower it into ice water. This procedure will allow you to quickly remove the skirt. Purified fruits cut into two halves, and then these halves lie with long slices so that they are approximately equal to the prepared beans. In winter, instead of fresh tomatoes can use tomatoes canned in their own juice. You can also replace the fruit into juice on clean tomato juice, but it is undesirable.

Bell pepper.One medium bell red pepper pepper from seeds and cut on strips. They should also work proportionate to the beans with pieces.

Pepper bitter Chile.Take this pepper only if you like sharp dishes. For Lobio, there is enough piece of 1-1.5 cm in size, which is pretty finely. Make sure that the seeds do not get into the mass, because they are very sharp and can spoil the taste of dishes.

3

Preparation of fragrant spices

Garlic.It will require three very large teeth. Clean the garlic from the upper dry skirt and shallowly squeeze the knife. You should not chop garlic with a special garlic press, because with such a processing all spicy juice is lost. It is also not recommended in Lobio instead of garlic of fresh lay dry or granulated - they do not have the desired aroma.

Greens.Take six to seven twigs of parsley, cilantro and purple basilica. Greens should be clean and dry. If the greens are still young, then use it with the stalks. If there are doubts about the softness of the stems, then dismiss the leaves with them. All fragrant mass is disturbed by a knife, but not too smack. If you wish, you can also take a few leaves of ordinary mint, but this spice in the dish is already an amateur.

Dry spices. You can buy a ready-made set of "Spices for Lobio" or mix in equal amounts of oregano, sweet paprika, coriander, thyme, rosemary. For Lobio you will need to take a tablespoon of this mixture. If the mixture is done on your own, then put a pinch of the seasoning "Hop-Sunnels".

Salt and pepper.As for other dishes familiar to you, these spices will be required to your taste.

4

Preparation of walnuts

Almost no Georgian dish costs without delicious and useful walnuts. In Lobio, they are mandatory, like the beans itself. For 1 kg of beans in the pods of nuts, prepare 100-120 grams. Put the kernel in the blender and grind to the crumb of medium size. Instead of a blender, you can use the rolling pin. Then the nuts dried in the oven slightly place between two kitchen towels and beat them with a rolling pin.

5

The process of manufacturing Lobio

After all the preliminary works, you can already prepare a delicious dish.

1. Bring ordinary water in a saucepan. It is not necessary to solit it. Lower the prepared beans pods into it and boil them on a small heat for 6-8 minutes. Boiled beans lean on a colander so that it is superfluous liquid from it.
2. In a deeply skill, heals 5 tablespoons of vegetable oil for frying. Put onions into it and roast before transparency.
3. Add tomatoes to Luka, and two minutes later - sweet pepper. Tomit everything under the lid 3 minutes.
4. Next, put the chili pepper, garlic and greens in the scenery. Add and dry spices and pinch of ground pepper. Take this mixture under the lid approximately two minutes.
5. Now put the boiled beans and gently mix the contents of the schill. At the same time, the mass and salt is approximately an incomplete tablespoon of salt.
6. Touch the beans with vegetables and spices of 5-7 minutes and necessarily under the lid.
7. When all components of Lobio become soft, pour them off with nuts.
8. Lobio mix, remove from the fire and cover the lid. Let him breed with nuts for another 15 minutes.
9. Serve Lobio hot or cold with fresh bread.

And this video for those who do not represent a feast without meat. This is, though not a classic Georgian recipe, but Lobio with meat is also very tasty.