Bulgarian style green bean stew
Ingredients:
500 g flat green beans (or yellow)
1 tomato
1 carrot
2-3 cloves of garlic
2 spring onions
1 teaspoon paprika
1 tablespoon flour
Fresh parsley and mint
Dried parsley and mint
Salt, oil and pepper
Preparation:
Cut the spring onion and garlic into small pieces, grate the carrots. In a saucepan, heat a little oil and stew the vegetables briefly, covered. Then put the paprika, stir and add quickly the grated tomato. Sprinkle the flour over and stir to evenly distribute. Add gradually 1 cup of hot water, beating vigorously until smooth.
When boiling resumes, add the green beans (washed and cut into pieces of 4-5 cm. Season the stew with salt, pepper, parsley and mint (fresh and dried). Cover the saucepan and cook at small bubbles about 30-40 minutes. Then, let the green bean stew rest about 20 minutes off the heat.
Serve with a sprinkling of chopped parsley and a cup of plain yogurt.
In your instructions I never heard of grating a tomato. Do you mean chop?
I do grate it! It’s easy and you don’t need to peel it off first as the peel stays in your hand. I am sorry for taking soooo long to reply
I added potatoes as had it that way in Bulgaria.Also did not grate the carrot but sliced thin. loved it .will make again. Thank you
Hi, Pauline. Sounds yummi your way! Thanks for sharing!