Favorite Balkan Bean Dish
By: Valentina
Published: Monday, April 19, 2010 - 12:05pm

Ingredients




1/2 kg nice colored beans
2 Carrots
1 large Onion
Garlic
Celery and leaves of celery
locally made bacon and sausage
2 tablespoons Olive oil
Leek (piece of green and white part)
Salt and pepper, to taste
1/2 of green pepper, 1/2 of cayenne pepper, tomato juice 





Preparation

1 Wash the beans and leave leave overnight in a pot covered with cold water. 2 In the morning, drain the beans, add fresh water to cover the beans and boil.  3 When it is boiled, remove this water, and to the hot beans add chopped or sliced carrots, onion, garlic, celery, leek, papers, olive oil and ground pepper; leave it all about one hour. 4 Then boil some bacon and sausages separately. In the big pot, put the beans with vegetables and add salt, pepper and add about 2 liters of water. Cook this about 2-3 hours on the low heat. 5 Then add cooked meat and one ladle of water in which is cooked. 6 Taste and you can add some seasoning and nicely sliced garlic. Garnish with the parsley leaves. 7 Serve with the season salad (cabbage or green salad). 


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Preparation

 1  Wash the beans and leave leave overnight in a pot covered with cold water.  2  In the morning, drain the beans, add fresh water to cover the beans and boil.   3  When it is boiled, remove this water, and to the hot beans add chopped or sliced carrots, onion, garlic, celery, leek, papers, olive oil and ground pepper; leave it all about one hour.  4  Then boil some bacon and sausages separately. In the big pot, put the beans with vegetables and add salt, pepper and add about 2 liters of water. Cook this about 2-3 hours on the low heat.  5  Then add cooked meat and one ladle of water in which is cooked.  6  Taste and you can add some seasoning and nicely sliced garlic. Garnish with the parsley leaves.  7  Serve with the season salad (cabbage or green salad).

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Sorry, we are missing the picture, the plates are already empty :)
There is an explanation about this. Leaving the bean in the water during the night and first time boiling means that bean is going to be easy for the stomach.
Bean is one of the most favorite meals in the Balkans kitchen and there is a hundred ways of preparing.
I like my vegetarian bean with apples.
After boiling and adding vegetables, I bake it in the stove, covered with the cubed apples, about two hours on 175 C.
And stir in there tomato juice or sauce.
Bon appetite! :)
If you want, you can make something that we call “zaprska” and that is: Spoon of wheat flour mix with 2-3 spoons of soup or just water (that is the white one); Or, in the hot pan put  some butter,  then quick add a spoon of wheat flour, carefully, do not leave to get brown, and stir with 2-3 spoons of soup or water and ground red pepper. And stir the bean with it.