🇱🇧 Lebanon
Fasolia Stew
The classic of the Lebanese tabkha rotation: fasolia, riz, and the smell that tells the whole building it's lunchtime.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 90 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Big white butter beans with lamb or beef cubes, a cinnamon-warm tomato broth, always over vermicelli rice.
Ingredients
- 400 gdried white beans, soaked overnight
- 400 gbeef or lamb cubes
- 3 tbsptomato paste
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 clovesgarlic
- 1 tspseven-spice
- ½ tspcinnamon
Method
- 1
Brown the meat with onion, then simmer until nearly tender.
- 2
Add the drained beans and cover with water; cook until creamy inside.
- 3
Stir in tomato paste, garlic, and spices; simmer until the broth thickens.
- 4
Rest 10 minutes off the heat — fasolia improves as it sits.
- 5
Serve over vermicelli rice with a squeeze of lemon.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4