Recipe Below👇
Ingredients
500g white beans (I use Great Northern, but you can use Cannellini)
3x celery sticks
3x carrots
1x brown onion
1x red onion
5x garlic cloves
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 cup olive oil (plus a little extra drizzle for frying)
400g crushed tomatoes
1 teaspoon oregano
½ teaspoon pepper
3 bay leaves
½ tablespoon salt
Water
Pairs nicely with
Chilli flakes (optional)
Parsley (optional)
Raw red onion (optional)
Crusty bread! 🤤
Instructions
- Soak your beans in water for roughly 12 hours
- After 12 hours, rinse your soaked beans under fresh water and place in a saucepan. Cover with water and bring to a boil for 10 minutes.
- Whilst your beans are boiling, prepare your vegetables. Slice your celery and carrots medium thickness. Then dice your onions medium as well – you don’t want these too thick or too thin.
- Slice your garlic.
- After the beans have boiled for 10 minutes, take them off the heat and drain them.
- In a pot over the heat, put some olive oil and add your garlic and onions.
- Add the tomato paste and give it all a good mix.
- Add your carrot and celery.
- Then add in your drained, pre-boiled white beans.
- Then add half a cup of olive oil, the crushed tomatoes, oregano, pepper, and bay leaves.
- Fill the pot with water.
- Bring to boil and let simmer for 1 and a half hours.
- After 1 and a half hours has passed, add in the remainder half cup of olive oil and the salt. Add more (or less) to your desired tasting.
- Let it simmer for a further 10 minutes.
- Your Fasolada should now be ready to serve! Just taste a bean to ensure its cooked.
- OPTIONAL: Serve with some hot chilli flakes, fresh parsley, fresh red onion and most importantly, bread!
Marie
Perfect Niko Mou!