How to cook frozen Green beans with potatoes and make them taste awesome!
Frozen Green Beans is a fast and easy solution for a simple vegan meal ready in 30 minutes! Learn how to cook frozen Green beans with potatoes and make them taste awesome with simple ingredients available in every kitchen!
Green Beans with potatoes - Fasolakia -
For this dish, freshly grated tomatoes is a very important ingredient that makes all the difference. If you use canned tomatoes it would be like eating a totally different meal, and believe me, grating a few tomatoes will absolutely be worth your time and effort after you taste it in the end!
You can serve Green Beans with Feta and enjoy a delicious and easy lunch recipe, or you can accompany it with any meat you like! Both are delicious combinations you could eat your Green Beans with.
In Greece, where I live, we call this dish “Fasolakia” and it is a very popular “Ladero” (with-plenty-of-oil) dish.
How to cook frozen Green beans with potatoes and make them taste awesome!
Ingredients:
- 500g Frozen Green beans
- 500g Fresh tomatoes, grated, divided in half (250g + 250g)
- 2 medium-size potatoes, cut into wedges
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
- 5 Tbsp Olive oil
- Salt and black pepper, one pinch each
Instructions:
- Add the potatoes, cut into wedges, into a bowl and coat them with salt and pepper.
- Sauté the onion in a pot over high heat and add the garlic followed by the potatoes.
- Pour half (250g) of the grated fresh tomatoes into the pot.
- Bring to a boil and then let them simmer for 10 min.
- Add the Green beans straight from your freezer with a little pinch of salt.
- Pour the other half (250g) of the freshly grated tomatoes and mix gently.
- Do NOT add any water because the green beans will extract their own water.
- Bring to a boil and then let them simmer for 20 min.
- Enjoy your Green beans as they are for a vegan meal, or with feta for a balanced Mediterranean diet or with any meat of your choosing for all the meat lovers!
Notes:
For this dish, freshly grated tomatoes are a very important ingredient that makes all the difference. If you use canned tomatoes it would be like eating a totally different meal, and believe me, grating a few tomatoes will absolutely be worth your time and effort after you taste it in the end!
- Greek Traditional, Healthy, Recipes, Vegan
- fresh tomatoes, frozen green beans, garlic, green beans. fasolakia, onion, potatoes
- MEAL: Lunch
- COURSE: Main
- CUISINE: Greek Traditional
- Recipe by: Christina Karagianni
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