Red Bean Lobio 🥣 according to the classic recipe with photo

Kitchen appliances and utensils:pan, frying pan, spatula, stove, tablespoon and teaspoon, blender.

Ingredients

Ingredients	amount
Red Beans (Boiled)	500 g
Onions (large)	2 pcs.
Garlic	4 cloves
Red bell pepper	1 PC.
Ground black pepper	1 tsp or to taste
Salt	1 tsp
Vinegar	1 tbsp. l
Suneli hops	1 tsp
Water	200 ml

Step cooking

Pre boil the beans. Soak red dry beans for at least 4 hours. Soaking will reduce the cooking time of the beans and make them softer. After time, rinse the beans in several waters and place in a pan. Add water three times more beans and bring to a boil. From the moment of boiling, cook the beans over high heat, and then reduce the heat to a minimum and cook until cooked. Depending on the variety of beans, this will take 1.5-2.5 hours. At the end of cooking, salt the beans.

Peel and finely chop the garlic (4 cloves) with a knife.
Red pepper (1 piece), peel the seeds and the stalk and grind into small cubes.
Onion (2 large onions) cut into medium-sized cubes.
Place the pan on the stove and heat well. Put butter (40 grams) in a pan, let it melt and fry the onion on it until cooked, stirring it occasionally.
Put the pre-boiled beans (0.5 kg) into the pan and pour it with clean water (200 ml). Place the pot on medium heat. Add fried onions, chopped pepper and chopped garlic to the beans. Mix well.
Pour wine vinegar (a tablespoon) into the pan and add the seasoning of hops-suneli. Mix well again.
Sauté the beans for 10 minutes, remove the pan from the heat and grind the contents of the pan with a dip blender to a puree state.
The classic red bean lobio is done.

Lobio feed options

If you serve hot red bean lobio, this will be the main course. Cold lobio is considered an appetizer, and if you make a very sharp lobio or add walnuts to it, then it can be served as a dip sauce, which is dipped in pieces of pita bread, corn tortillas or thick corn porridge. Before serving, garnish with finely chopped cilantro. Serve adjika or tkemali separately. Also, pickled vegetables are served with lobio: cucumbers, peppers, garlic.

Video recipe

How to cook red bean lobio according to the classic recipe, see the video.

You have learned the classic recipe for making red bean lobio. The obligatory spice for lobio is the uchi-suneli spice (fenugreek herb), but you can also add savory if you wish. Vinegar can be used as balsamic and wine, the main selection criterion is naturalness. Cook lobio according to the recipe and write in the comments if you liked the dish, and also share in the comments how you cook lobio.