Bean Jahni Soup
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Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of dry white beans
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon chopped mint
- salt, chili powder
Cooking Instructions:
Boil beans in hot water in an uncovered pot for 5 minutes. Rinse and
boil for another 15 minutes in a covered stock pot in 3 cups hot
water. SautÈ onion in olive oil until it turns yellow. Add 2
tablespoons bean stock from the pot along with tomato sauce,
parsley, salt and chili powder for taste. Cook for 10 minutes or
until a thick sauce is formed, then pour everything into the pot.
Add chopped mint, cover tightly and cool for 2 hours over low heat,
or for 30 minutes in a pressure cooker. This should produce a thick
juice, covering beans by inch.
Serve hot.
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Veal with large Lima Beans
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Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 lb veal
- 1 large onion, grated
salt, pepper, tomatoes
- 1 1/2 lb of large Lima beans
Cooking Instructions:
Select shoulder parts of the veal and cut them into 1" cubes.
Wash the meat thoroughly with cold water, drain, and then place the
meat in a pot together with butter and grated onions and stir fry
for a few minutes. As the meat is frying, add water until the pieces
are covered. Also add salt, pepper, and only two to three
tablespoons of tomatoes (note: tomatoes can be cut into pieces to
the size of your choice). Cover the pot and let the meat boil.
In the meantime, cut the ends off the Lima beans and clean them well
(you also cut them in half if you desire). Add the Lima beans to the
meat after it has been boiling for several minutes. Also add water
until everything in the pot is covered. Finally, when the beans are
done boiling, add the rest of the tomatoes. Then let the stew boil
for a few more minutes so that the liquid can thicken.
*** Please note that tomatoes should not be added all at once in the
beginning since they donít allow the Lima beans to boil at the
right pace. If you would rather use fresh tomatoes, when you add the
Lima beans, add whole tomatoes instead of cut ones.
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Baked Leeks
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Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
- 2 lbs leeks
- 1/2 cup oil
- 3/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 lb ground meat
- 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
- mild red pepper
- salt, pepper
Cooking Instructions:
Cut off the green leaves from leeks; wash and cut leeks slantwise into 1-inch thick slices. Saute in a little oil and place in a baking pan. Saute onion and ground meat in remaining oil. Add beef stock, tomato sauce, red pepper, salt and pepper, and bring to a boil. Pour meat mixture over the sauteed leeks. Bake for 1 hour at 375 degrees F. Serve hot.
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Mixed Vegetables
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Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
- 2 lbs various vegetables (peppers, eggplant, okra, zucchini, potatoes, etc)
- 1/2 cup oil, divided
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup peeled chopped tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- Salt, pepper
Cooking Instructions:
After cutting off inedible tips of vegetables, wash and slice them into 1-inch squares. Saute vegetables in half the oil and remove them from the frying pan. Saute onion and tomatoes in the remaining oil, and season with parsley, salt, and pepper. Put everything in a stock pot with a cup of water, cover tightly, and simmer until almost all moisture has cooked away. Serve hot, accompanied by steak, meatballs, or any other main dish.
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Stewed Dry Figs Dessert
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Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 cups milk
- 1 cup finely-grated figs
- Cinnamon
Cooking Instructions:
Stir sugar in milk, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Add figs slowly, stirring continuously. Pour into earthenware serving bowls and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) for 10 minutes. Chill and sprinkle with cinnamon. Serve
cold.
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Baked Lamb and Yogurt
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Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
- 1-1/2 lbs lamb
- 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
- 2 tablespoons rice
- Salt, pepper
For Yogurt sauce:
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
- 2 lbs. yogurt
-5 eggs
- salt, pepper
Cooking Instructions:
Cut meat in 4 serving pieces, sprinkle each piece with salt and
pepper, and bake in a moderately-heated oven with half the butter,
sprinkling the meat with its gravy now and then. When meat is
half-baked, add rice; remove the baking pan from the oven and leave
it aside while you prepare the yogurt sauce:
Saute flour in butter until mixed throughly. Mix yogurt with salt,
pepper and eggs until a uniform mixture is obtained, and finally
stir in the flour. Put the sauce mixture in the baking pan; stir it
with the meat pieces and bake at 375 degrees F for about 45 minutes.
Serve hot.
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Fried Meatballs
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Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
- 1 lb ground meat
- 1 slice stale bread
- 1 small onion, finely-grated
- 2 tablespoons chopped Feta cheese
- 2 tablespoons bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons oil or melted butter
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- salt, pepper, mint, oregano
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup oil (olive recommended)
Cooking Instructions:
Soak bread in water and squeeze hard to drain. Add ground meat,
bread crumbs, oil or melted butter, onion, parsley, salt, pepper,
and mint. Mix thoroughly, and form into 1-inch thick patties,
sprinke with salt. pepper, and oregano. Roll in flour and fry in hot
oil. Serve hot with French Fries or mashed potatoes.
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