It’s amazing how sometimes, the simplest ingredients can create the most flavorful yet humble dishes. This is one of those dishes. My Sitoo {you know her for her Tabbouleh, Fudge Cookies and Stuffed Shrimp} made this for us when we were visiting Massachusetts a few weeks ago. Using a pot that belonged to her mother, she stewed these green beans and potatoes to perfection. I couldn’t get enough. You know who else couldn’t get enough? Caroline. She ate this for 3 days straight. Sure sign of a good dish.
Loubieh bi Zeit
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Ingredients (serves 10)
- 1 onion (on the larger side) chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, smashed
- 3 tablesppons olive oil
- 2 lbs green beans, cleaned
- 2 lbs small white potatoes, peeled
- 28 oz can crushed tomatoes
- 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
- salt and pepper
Instructions
In a heavy bottomed pot, heat the olive oil.
Saute the onions until they have a little bit of color, but are not browned.
Add the garlic cloves and saute for a minute.
Add the green beans and stir until coated with olive oil. Add the the potatoes and both types of tomatoes, salt and pepper. Stir well to combine, cover and simmer over medium low heat for one hour.
After one hour, season with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve immediately or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Green beans. Tomatoes. Garlic. Onions. Potatoes. Does it get any simpler?
Despite cooking for an hour, the green beans still have a little bit of bite. Somehow, they don’t become mushy. The potatoes break apart easily with a fork. For Caroline, I cut up the green beans and mashed the potatoes. Girlfriend gobbled it up before touching anything else on her plate.
My Sitoo has been making Loubieh for years and years and it always tastes the same. To me, it tastes like home.
Enjoy!
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Mmm absolutely my fav!!! I had no clue that some ppl cook it with potatoes.. My family is originally from Nazareth and for us the more olive oil the better, I sometimes make it with half a cup of olive oil and love it eating it super cold yum!!!
That sounds delicious, I love how everyone puts there own mark on traditional recipes.
This is one of my favorites and green beans are so fresh right now. We harvested more than enough from Jim’s dad’s garden!
Green beans are on the list to go in our garden next year–can’t beat fresh picked ones! I bet Jidoo’s were awesome in this, don’t you think?
My Lebanese grandmother taught me to make a similar dish but I put lamb in it too. It is seriously one of my favorite dishes. I didn’t realize you were Lebanese. Wonder if we’re related.
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Lamb–that’s a great idea! Isn’t everything better with lamb? Haha, maybe! It’s a small world