Bean Lobio - Secrets from a Georgian dish 🥗

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove, pan with a lid, cutting board, knife, frying pan, spatula, teaspoon, tablespoon, plate.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. First you need to prepare the beans. It can be soaked in water for several hours or all night. If you put the beans to cook immediately, the cooking time will be 3-3.5 hours. Rinse thoroughly with 500 g of beans and fill it with water 1: 2.
   
2. When the beans have stood still enough, send it to boil, you can leave this water, or you can replace it with fresh. Bring the beans to a boil, and then reduce the heat and cook for one and a half hours, periodically adding liquid. You can check the readiness with the help of an ordinary spoon, slightly pressing on the beans. If the bean culture has turned into mashed potatoes, then it is ready.
   
3. While the beans are boiling, you can start cooking onions. Peel 3 onions, rinse and finely chop into cubes.
   
4. Put the pan on a fire to bask, and then send several tablespoons of butter to it. If you prefer vegetable oil, then you can use it.
   
5. When the butter has completely melted, add chopped onion to it and fry it until translucent.
   
6. Slightly fried onions, add to the pan to the boiled beans and leave it to boil for 10 minutes.
   
7. While preparing the main ingredients, grind 2 bunches of cilantro (leaves with tails).
   
8. You will also need to finely chop 6 cloves of garlic.
   
9. Now again you can start cooking lobio, for this crush the whole red boiled bean with a nibbler of potatoes.
   
10. Add 3-4 to this mass. bay leaf and 20-25 pcs. black pepper, and then mix lobio and leave it on fire for 2 minutes.
    
11. Add chopped cilantro with garlic to the pan, then send there 1-1.5 tbsp. l salt and mix, and then pour 1 tsp. seasoned hops-suneli, mix again and leave under the lid over medium heat for 10 minutes.
    
12. Turn off the gas, lobio is done. Before serving, decorate the dish with several sprigs of parsley or cilantro.
    

Video recipe

Many people remain indifferent to beans, because they simply do not know how to cook it deliciously. But this product can also be used to prepare a delicious independent dish. We offer you a video recipe in which the author describes the process of cooking the popular Georgian dish of lobio. For its preparation, red beans are used, as well as a lot of herbs and garlic.