Fasolakia me patates kai beikon (green beans with potatoes and bacon)

fasolakia with bacon

The main ingredient of our favorite recipes - fasolakia (green beans, in Greek language), are fresh in summer and frozen in winter but are always an everyday must and beneficial vegetables. 

Scientists say that the annual consumption is connected with the aid of the immune system and helps reduce diseases related to a sedentary life. Today we will try green beans with potatoes (patates) and bacon (beikon).
 

Ingredients:

1kg green beans (fresh or frozen)
1 large onion
2 large fries
5 sliced bacon
Half glass oil
1 glass of tomato juice
The soup 1 tablespoon tomato paste
3 boiled water glasses

Half glass wine red wine
Mint
Salt
Pepper
Sugar


tasty fasolakia

Place in a saucepan over high heat the oil to heat up. Finely chop the onion and sauté brew if fresh green beans (clean) if it is not the frozen thaws throws directly from freezing. 

Peel and cut all potatoes in size and wishing pour let it boil and add the wine. Then add the tomato paste tomato juice the sugar to the salt pepper mint mix all together boils old and throwing three glass of boiled water does not stop boiling close the lid and leave for 30 minutes without mingle after sent the lid and look what water has to evaporate and leave and stay with sauce at that point.  

Finely chop the bacon and browned at frying pan without oil to remove the fat of the finished when the beans served sprinkle the bacon.

Matches splendidly the beans with bacon to like and in small and large. Also if you know me beans to the second day is tastier and you can drain by zoom and wrap of crust and the frying ie recorders with beans and bacon who is another recipe. Enjoy your fasolakia!
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Fasolakia me karota (Greek green beans with carrots)

fasolakia carrots

In Greece, fasolakia (green beans) with carrots (karota, in Greek) is a traditional recipe, which everybody adore for their slightly sweet flavour and crunchy texture.

Ingredients:

1 kilogram green beans blanched
3 potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
3 carrots, peeled and cut into thick slices
1 onion
1 tomato juice
vegetable broth
parsley
salt
pepper

In a pot, sauté the onion and browned just throw the tomato juice. After a while the beans and vegetable broth. Then the potatoes, carrots, salt, pepper and parsley and leave to chelate the zoumaki
. Enjoy your fasolakia!
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Fasolakia ladera (oily green beans) again

faslakia ladera
Today I propose another fasolakia ladera (oily green beans) recipe, a summer food, light and delicious. The days are very hot, and this is the solution if you are looking for something that is eaten pleasantly cooler. 

Typically the vegetables are suitable for such cases. Thus arose the current and proposed suspension and fasting periods.
 Fasolakia ladera is a homemade food who is causing nostalgic memories from their mommy. And there because in my view the only problem of this otherwise wonderful Greek dish.

When cooking fasolakia ladera, you don't need to get into a great scientific analyzes, when cooking in alkaline water vegetables as these, it softens them while the oil keeps them tight (due to osmosis from inside out and not like water). 

So as long as you sauté in oil, the more their cells keep their water and so they end up crisp. As long as you boil them in water, the water from their cells comes into the boiling water so they soften.


Ingredients: 


500g. fresh green beans
2 onions, chopped
1 tablespoon garlic powder 
3 ripe tomatoes, grated on a coarse grater 
2 carrots 
2 zucchini 
oil 
salt 
pepper 
1 pinch of sugar water 

Wash the beans and purified from the fibers may have the side. Then heat a pan and add the oil to soften the onion. Cut carrots and zucchini into chunks and add to pot, let it sit for about 2 minutes. 

Then put the green beans and our equal lubricated. Pour the tomatoes and cover with water. Add garlic, salt, pepper and sugar and bring to a boil. Then, lower the heat and simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour or so, until liquid has evaporated and lots of sauce left.

The secret recipe is not that much to stir us not melt and vegetables do not add too much salt, since we want the sweetness to earn our beans. Not corrected during the cooking salt, pepper, sugar, because in the end we show the actual taste of the food and then add whatever we want. 

Leave the food for at least 15 minutes before serving, to come to room temperature and to tie the flavors. Add in fresh willingness extra virgin olive oil and fresh pepper and serve with good bread and cheese. Ideally accompanied by a Grimbergen Blonde that the fruity character, fits perfectly with the crunchy and your fragrant beans.

Enjoy your meal, and try other Greek green beans recipes!


Here is another video of a greek fasolakia ladera recipe:

  
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Top 7 Fasolakia me patates (Greek green beans with potatoes) recipes

Green beans (fasolakia) are a summer food that takes a little time to make, is an easy recipe but does not cease to have its own cooking secrets. And to get a good taste you have to marry them with just as good ingredients as fresh potatoes (patates). Today we will try different recipes of green beans with potatoes.


1. Fasolakia me patates with onion and garlic spice

fasolakia ladera patates

Ingredients:

1kg - 1/2kg fresh green beans cleaned of their fibers
3 medium potatoes
1 large onion, grated
1 \ 2 pound ripe tomatoes
1 \ 2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
5 tablespoons olive oil
1 \ 2 teaspoon garlic powder
little spice


Instructions:

Wash thoroughly cleaned beans, put them in a saucepan and add the chopped potatoes quartered, the garlic powder, the grated onion, tomatoes melted with hands, past the mill chotarikon, chopped parsley, salt and pepper.  

Add water so as to hidden green beans, stir gently, cover the pot and cook over medium heat for about 1 hour. Uncover the pan and add the oil and stir very gently if not put water to boil up a little to drink their water and to thicken the sauce. (You can use frozen green beans that do not need cleaning).



   2. Fasolakia me patates in olive oil and lemon sauce

Fasolakiame patates in olive oil and lemon sauce

Simple, rustic but wonderful dish for the days we do not have much appetite for cooking.

dill
Ingredients, for 4-6 people:
1 kilogram of frozen green beans
6 potatoes
dill
lemon
olive oil

Instructions:
Time: 40 Minutes
In boiling water we pour the green beans, potatoes cleaned and whole, dill and salt.

When they soften, be careful to keep, strain and serve with lemon and oil.

Then, if you want, you can put feta or zucchini in the pot.



3. Fasolakia me patates with laurel and cinnamon

Fasolakia me patates, with laurel and cinnamon

This green beans with potatoes recipe is so delicious, that when you put it on your table everyone will look at you with a smile of satisfaction.

laurel leaf
Ingredients:
1200 g green beans if it is the season or 1 kg  frozen beans
3 potatoes cut into large pieces
3 dry onions
150 ml olive oil
2 tsp. sugar
1/2 cup hot water
200 g tomato freshly grated
1/2 bunch of parsley finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic chopped
1 tsp. tomato pancakes
1 cup of white wine
1 laurel leaf
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Salt and freshly ground pepper

Instructions:
Clean the beans from their two side edges and gently cut the two ends. If it's too far we cut them in the middle. Wash them well and let them drain.

Cut the onions and garlic into small pieces of potatoes in large pieces.

In a large saucepan, add 3/4 of the olive oil and satin the onion until it is polished.
potatoes in large pieces

Add the beans and potatoes and continue the saucer for five six minutes.

Add the garlic and tomato paste, stir well and after a while we turn off the wine.

Salt pepper add cinnamon, laurel, grated tomato, sugar and water. Let's take a strong boil and lower the heat to moderate.

Boil for about 30 to 35 minutes, checking in the middle not to leave without liquids, until they boil but do not melt the beans.

Finally, add the parsley and the remaining olive oil and boil for another ten minutes.
In the end, the much of the water have disappeared and there is a soybean of oil and tomato.
Remove it from the fire, cover it and let it cool down for half an hour and tie the soap.

There we will put our fresh bread and we will also put a slice of draft slice to blush from the tomato.



 4. Fasolakia me patates with squash


Fasolakia me patates with squash
Ingredients:

-1 kilos of green beans
-1 big onion
-1 cup of extra virgin olive oil
-3 tomatoes ripe chopped
-1 green pepper
-2 zucchini
-½ cup of parsley tea
-4 potatoes cut
-Salt Pepper

Instructions:

Add the olive oil with the onion, the green beans, sauté and add 1 glass of water. 

When half-boiled, add the tomato (if desired, add a tablespoon), the potatoes, the zucchini, the parsley , cut peppers, salt, pepper and a glass of water. 

Let the food cook for about 20 minutes until the sauce is baked and tied. If the green beans are frozen, put the potatoes together.


    5. Fasolakia me patates with dried onions and zucchini


Fasolakia me patates with dried onions and zucchini

Ingredients:

zucchini
1k green beans (whatever variety we like)
2 dried onions
300 ml olive oil
3 potatoes
3 zucchini
2 large ripe tomatoes
½ bunch of parsley
Salt Pepper

Instructions:

Clean the beans from the side fibers and cut them in the middle if they are large. Wash them and let them dry.

In a saucepan, add 200ml olive oil, pour the onions finely chopped, add the green beans. Let's polish and add the courgettes and potatoes that have been cut into small pieces.

parsley over green beans
Cook for five minutes and pour the tomato scraped, parsley
and salt. Lower the temperature to half and leave with a lid closed until our food is cooked. We watch if we need to take some warm water.

When we cook our food, add 100ml olive oil and let it boil. Remove from heat, add pepper and leave the food to melt for ten minutes before serving.


     6. Fasolakia me patates in the oven

Fasolakia me patates in the oven

When the beans are baked in the oven, they have a taste that  have nothing to do with what we are use to when we cook them in the pot. Their taste will amaze you.

Ingredients:
carrots and onions

 1 kilogram of green beans, wide or round
    2 large potatoes, cut into cubes
    1 large carrot in washers
    1 large onion dry chopped
    2 cloves of garlic chopped
    ½ bunch of parsley finely chopped
    1 cube of vegetable broth
    tomato juice
    1 tomato chopped
    olive oil
    salt, pepper, cinnamon

Instructions:

Put the green beans on the baking dish and sprinkle all the vegetables, spices, tomato and tomato juice on top.
 
Stir, pour the olive oil, the vegetable cube and water, and bake at 200° for about 60-90 minutes, filling with water if necessary.
 
Mix carefully from time to time to avoid melting, and to the end of the baking, make sure to leave them pink and staying with their sauce.

The result is great and you will be congratulated by those who try it. If you do not fast, you can add calf or chicken to the food.


    7. Fasolakia me Patates with chicken bites


The beans are combined with chicken and potatoes to create a very tasty dish.

Fasolakia me Patates with chicken bites
Ingredients, for 4 people:

500gr. green beans frozen
500gr. potatoes small, round
1 kg fillet of chicken breast in bites 
¾ cup of olive oil
 1 cup of onion finely chopped
 500gr. tomato grated on the grater
 2 laurel leaves
 4 grains of whey
 4 tsp. parsley parsley finely chopped
 salt, pepper, freshly ground

Instructions:

Heat half of olive oil and sauté the chicken bites until they get color from all sides. Add the grated onion and sauté for a while.

Salt and pepper with half the grated tomato. Add the laurel leaves, whole grains, and just enough water to cover the meat well. After the first boiling, lower the heat and simmer the food until the chicken is tender.

Then remove the bay leaves and spice from the pot and add the green beans, potatoes, the rest of the tomato, the remaining olive oil, the parsley and salty pepper. 

If the food is strong, lower the heat and simmer until the beans are cooked well and the sauce is poured. Allow the food to stand for 30 minutes and then serve.


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