Bean stew with meat - a simple recipe for delicious stew 🍲

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• knife;
• pan;
• wooden spatula;
• cutting board;
• grater;
• bowl + sieve (for washing beans);
• a pan with a thick bottom (or cauldrons);
• plate.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Since beans are a representative of the legume family, it must be soaked for a while before cooking. This is best done in the evening. One and a half cups of beans should be washed and filled with warm water. Keep in mind that beans have the property of swelling, so you need to pour much more water than beans. In addition, to make it boil faster, you can add half a teaspoon of soda to the water with beans and mix everything. Next, cover the pan with a lid and leave overnight (10-12 hours).
   
2. After 10-12 hours, drain the water and thoroughly rinse the beans from the remaining soda. Cut into large cubes 500 g of meat. It can be either pork or beef - it all depends on your taste.
   
3. Dice one large onion as well.
   
4. Bell pepper also needs to be cut into large cubes.
   
5. On a coarse grater, three 2 carrots. Grind a clove of garlic with a knife, and just finely chop fresh herbs (about 5 g).
   
6. We put a cauldron (or a pan with a thick bottom) on the stove, pour 4-5 tbsp. l vegetable oil. It is necessary that it abundantly covers the bottom of the cauldron.
   
7. When the oil warms up well, we send there first ¼ of the whole onion, and then the meat. You need to fry the meat until it is slightly browned. We take out the meat from the cauldron and pour out the remaining onion, which also needs to be fried until it is rosy. Add 2 tbsp. l tomato paste, pour the grated carrots and mix everything in a casserole with a wooden spatula. Fry everything together for about 2 minutes.
   
8. As soon as the carrots become a little soft, add to the cauldron bell pepper, 1 bay leaf. We also spread chopped herbs and garlic. And then - fried meat and beans on top.
   
9. Now you need to fill everything with hot water. Water should cover the beans about 2 cm. And wait until everything boils well.
   
10. After the stew boils, we make the fire slightly below average, and cover the cauldron with a lid. And stew the dish for about 1-1.5 hours until the beans are ready. About 5-7 minutes before turning off the stew, you need to salt and add black ground pepper to taste. After turning off, allow the dish to “walk” a little under the lid for about 15 minutes. And then it can be served.
    

Video recipe

This video, prepared by an experienced housewife, Oksana Valerievna, will help you in the process of preparing beans stewed with meat. This stew turns out to be very tasty and satisfying, despite the fact that it cooks simply and relatively quickly (you just need to pre-soak the beans).