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Fasulye and Pilav
Fasulye and Pilav
Salwaa’s Fasulye (Beans Stew & Rice)
Fasulye
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From My Kitchen To Yours – keeping our heritage alive
On our recent trip to Istanbul we had this delicious bean stew called Fasulye served with a buttery rice. It’s very popular amongst the Turks and widely eaten in the country. It’s such a cheap and easy dish to make, it’s filling and really warms you up too. This is my version and a must try dish.
Ingredients:
2 chopped onions
2 ripe chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 small chopped green pepper
2-3 finely chopped chillies
1 tbsp grated garlic
Salt to taste
2 tins of cannellini beans drained
Method:
Braised finely chopped onion in a little oil for about 5 minutes.
Add garlic, chillies, tomatoes and tomato paste and cook for a further 10 minutes.
Add cannellini beans and cook for a further 10 minutes. Add water as desired.
The result is a delicious, hearty bean stew. I served it with a plate of Pilav (rice)
Turkish Pilav (rice)
Fasulya with Pilav
Ingredients
2 cups of basmati or fragrant rice
3 tablespoons butter (real butter gives the flavour, margarine is not a substitute)
5 cloves
2 cups of water or stock (chicken stock works particularly well, and helps create the authentic taste)
1 – 2 teaspoons salt, use less salt of you are using chicken stock
Method:
Rinse the rice in a sieve under cold water. Place the rice in a bowl and cover with hot salted water. Let this stand for about 30 minutes. Wash again thoroughly in cold water (the water should run clear) and drain well.
Melt the butter, with the cloves, in a saucepan until it just starts to sizzle, before it turns brown. Add the rice and sauté for 2-3 minutes stirring continuously.
Pour the stock or water into the pan, bring to the boil, then turn down to simmer on a low heat. Don’t stir the pilav whilst cooking! Cook until the rice has absorbed all the water (10-15 minutes). Add salt to taste.
Take the pan off the heat, and remove the lid. Place a clean kitchen towel over the pot, and then replace the lid. Leave to “rest” for 5-10 minutes. Stir the rice with a fork to fluff it up before serving with the fasulya beans.
Enjoy a taste from Turkey
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Chocolate Chip Banana Loaf
Chocolate Chip Banana Loaf
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Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas
2 large eggs
1/2 cup softened butter
1 tbsp milk
Pinch of salt
1 tsp fine cinnamon
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup cake flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup chocolate chips
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and grease a loaf tin with oil.
In a large bowl, mash the bananas with the eggs.
Add the butter, milk and sugar and mix with a wooden spoon until the sugar has dissolved. Add salt and cinnamon. Sift in the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
Mix until combined.
Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into prepared tin.
Put in the middle shelf of the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes, or until an inserted skewer comes out clean and the loaf is nicely browned.
Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes and then remove the loaf and cool completely on a cooling rack.
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Green Bean and Lamb Stew
Salwaa’s Green Beans Stew
A simple yet tasty recipe for green beans stew or bredie as we know it in Cape Town. Easy to make, a great idea for a healthy and nutritious meal. Here I used trimmed fine beans. Best of all 3 heaped tablespoons green beans equals one of your 5 a day.
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Ingredients:
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
600g lamb pieces
1 large onion, chopped
1½ tsp salt
2 – 3 green chillies, chopped
1 Tbsp spoon sugar, optional
3 cloves
3 all spice
1kg green beans, sliced diagonally
3 large potatoes, quartered
Green Bean Stew served with basmati rice and atchar
Method:
Wash and drain the meat. Heat the oil in a large pot and braise the onions until deep golden brown.
Add the lamb pieces and garlic and cook until nearly tender about 40 minutes adding water as necessary.
Add the salt, chillies, cloves, allspice and green beans as well as the potatoes.
Cook until the potatoes are soft and tender adding water for thinner gravy.
Serve with boiled rice and atchar. Serves 6
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Mango atchar, lemon atchar, mix veg atchar
Always braise meat until very dark in colour, carefully watching it, so that it doesn’t burn to get a nice dark colour stew.
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