Broad Beans - Bakla
By: Kathryn Aydogan
Published: Monday, May 9, 2011 - 5:25am

Ingredients




1 kilogram broad beans
2 onions
3 tablespoons sweet pepper paste/tomato paste
water
oil
salt/pepper

Preparation

1 Take all the beans out of the large pods, if they are small leave them in the pod. Cut the pods into fairly small pieces.  Dice the onions.  In a large saucepan pour in the oil and fry the onions until clear.  Add in the beans cook and stir for 5 minutes.  Add in the pepper paste and stir through.  Add in enough water to cover the beans.  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Cook on a med-high heat for 1 hour. Check and cook for a further 30 minutes if necessary. (I cook this in my pressure cooker for 1 hour)Broad bean shells are rather tough and I cook mine for a prolonged period and it is always lovely and soft. 2 If you want to add meat to this you can just add in 150gr or 200gr diced meat and fry it after cooking the onions then proceed with the rest.