Georgian cuisine - it’s taste, color, simple and pleasant dishes at home. Even if you are not a fan of this country, it is simply impossible to ignore Georgian national dishes. For example, lobio (beans) is a great appetizer, and at the same time a side dish for main dishes. There are more species than the hostesses themselves in Georgia. Each one knows several ways, but the husband will cook it his own way anyway. Beans are not only a tasty and nutritious product, but also a source of vegetable proteins, vitamins, and minerals. A quarter of the composition is protein, which is why beans are superior in value to some types of meat. Having prepared a dish of beans, we help our body, because protein is absorbed by 80 percent.

It has long been noticed that bean lovers are calm and balanced people with a benevolent character. The presence of iron, potassium magnesium and other useful substances makes it not just a product, but an extremely useful food product. This is especially important for people after 40 years. Nutritionists recommend using beans in their diet at least 2 times a week.

Lobio - product preparation

Different varieties of beans are never mixed in the same dish so as not to get a heterogeneous consistency due to different cooking times. Beans need to be boiled very strongly. Sometimes it is generally kneaded to obtain a paste. The taste of the dish is given by the famous Georgian spices. There is a place for fresh herbs (cilantro, onion, parsley), suneli hops (thyme (thyme), marjoram, fenugreek, white mustard, rosemary, savory, bay leaf, mint, basil, sage, paprika, cinnamon, dill, coriander, caraway seeds, cloves and saffron). It turns out an extremely fragrant, but not spicy dish, black and red pepper is added to taste. An indispensable attribute of Georgian dishes is chopped nuts. Before cooking, the beans are soaked for several hours, not only so that they swell and cook faster, but also to remove substances that lead to bloating. Then it is poured with fresh water, and boiled over moderate heat for about an hour and a half until cooked.

Lobio - the best recipes

Recipe 1: Lobio with Tomatoes

This dish is great for fasting. Many people find lean foods tasteless and not healthy - but not lobio! This dish can be tastier even than ordinary meat dishes.

Ingredients: dry red beans (200 grams, 1 cup), onions (400 grams), tomatoes (200 grams), suneli hops (200 grams), vegetable oil, salt, ground black pepper, cilantro, parsley, green onion, chopped walnuts (2 tablespoons), garlic (2 cloves).

Cooking method

Cook the beans until soft, pre-prepared and soaked, leave the pan on the stove so that it softens even more. Peel and chop coarsely the onion, add seasonings and diced tomatoes. Stew until vegetables are boiled. Drain the beans and add to the lobio. Grind garlic and walnuts, add everything to the vegetable mixture, salt and pepper. Add finely chopped greens, close the pan with a lid and turn off the heat. The dish is tasty in the warm and cold form, if it has cooled, then you can not heat it up so that the garlic and spices do not lose their quality.

Recipe 2: Lobio with Red Bean Meat

Red beans are the richest source of fiber. It gives an extraordinary feeling of satiety. WHO (World Health Organization) recommends daily consumption of 20-40 g of fiber, it helps to eliminate toxins from the body and stabilize blood sugar. These calories are not overweight, so you can not be afraid and cook lobio from red beans at least every day.

Ingredients: red beans (500 grams), lamb pulp (600 grams), tomatoes (600 grams), onions (2-3 pcs.), garlic, regan (basil), garlic (4-5 cloves), cilantro, dill, hot pepper, salt, vegetable oil.

Cooking method

Pre boil the soaked beans for 1.5 hours. We cook meat for lobio at the very beginning. Cut into small pieces and fry in vegetable oil for about half an hour. Add chopped onions, peeled and diced tomatoes. Finely chop the greens and peppers, chop the garlic in the garlic box - we send everything to the meat in a skillet. Grind the beans, mix with the rest of the ingredients, leave to simmer another 5-7 minutes.

Recipe 3: Lobio with Mushrooms

For a dish with mushrooms, it is important that the beans remain whole, so cook it on a very low fire.

Ingredients: onions (medium) (5 pcs.), champignon mushrooms (250 grams), garlic (3-4 teeth), red beans (1 cup), walnuts or cashews (50 g), vegetable oil (50 ml) .

Cooking method

Soak the beans for the night, then boil it in water for at least 1.5 hours. Coarsely chop the mushrooms and fry in oil until golden brown. Then put them on a plate and squeeze the garlic - the aroma will be on the whole house. Coarsely chop nuts. We combine all the components, salt and pepper. Really, very appetizing!

Recipe 4: Lobio for the Winter with Vegetables

Canned homemade beans is a rather rare dish, it’s easier to buy it in a store. But in vain. Try a vegetable dish where beans play a major role and you won’t regret it.

Ingredients: beans (3 cups), sweet pepper (1 kg), carrots (1 kg), ripe tomatoes (2 kg), vegetable oil (1 cup), salt (2, 5 tablespoons), sugar (300 grams), vinegar (70 ml).

Cooking method

Boil the beans until ready in salted water. We clear the pepper from the seeds and cut into strips. Grate carrots, lettuce tomatoes through a meat grinder. Mix vegetables, add sugar, butter, salt, cook over low heat 30 minutes after boiling. Vinegar is introduced 10 minutes before being cooked. Put the hot mass in sterilized jars and roll up.

- The largest number of calories contains white beans. It is she who gives fullness to the body. Red and black beans have cleansing properties, as well as a large number of anthocyanins - substances that slow down aging.

- Green lobio is an absolutely excellent dish. It is enough to learn the basic principle, and you can cook various dishes from green bean pods. For example, lobio with scrambled eggs, satsivi, meat, walnuts, eggs and a host of other options. Boil the beans in boiling water for about 40-50 minutes, then mix with herbs and put ghee. Put in a pan for 10 minutes - the workpiece is ready.

Lobio is one of the national Georgian dishes. Initially, it was prepared from a plant such as dolichos from the legume family. Now use.

There are many varieties of this plant in Georgia, respectively, and there are quite a few varieties of dishes.

The benefits and harms of the dish

Useful and harmful properties of any dish depend on the components that make up its composition. The main ingredient in lobio is red beans. It contains many valuable amino acids, proteins, fiber, vitamins and minerals.

But he still has certain contraindications. This product is undesirable in chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and inflammation of the kidneys. Also, lobio should not often be used by nursing mothers, pregnant women and young children.

The dish should be prepared in accordance with the technology, since raw red beans contain toxic substances. During cooking, they are destroyed, and the product becomes safe.

Difficulty cooking time

Duration of cooking can be different. It depends on what kind of main ingredient. Work may take several hours.

Lobio refers to the number of medium in complexity dishes. If you understand the principle of its preparation, it will be easy to translate the recipe at home.

Product Preparation

The basis of this work is the selection of the main ingredient. You need to determine what kind of culture will be used, and acquire it. It is necessary to pay attention to expiration dates - this will increase the quality of the dish.

It is also worth evaluating the look. Rotten or pest-damaged grains should be discarded. Most often, beans are pre-soaked to reduce cooking time. Some recipes allow the use of canned food.

Other vegetables included in the composition must also be fresh. Therefore, the store should evaluate their appearance, smell and other characteristics.

It is advisable to use those seasonings that are indicated in the recipe. But experiments are also permissible in accordance with preferences.

Classic Georgian recipe with photo

The process of preparing lobio is worth studying according to the classic recipe.

It implies the use of the following products:

• red beans - 800 g;
• vegetable oil - 50 ml;
• onions - 3;
• wine vinegar - 30 ml;
• cilantro - 50 g;
• ground coriander - 2 hours. l .;
• salt;
• garlic - 7 cloves;
• hot red pepper - 1 g;
• hops-suneli - 3 tsp

The listed ingredients allow you to cook such a quantity of dishes that is enough for 5 people.

1. Bean grains are poured with cold water and left to soak for at least 4 hours. But it is better for the product to stand in water overnight.
   
2. In the morning, change the water, and put the beans on the fire. It should boil and boil for about 10 minutes. The broth should be decanted, pour new water and re-bring to a boil.
   
3. Reduce the fire to a minimum and continue cooking for another two hours without covering the pan with a lid. It may take more or less time - it depends on the variety of beans. But usually it takes at least an hour. When the beans are boiled, you can turn off the stove and drain the liquid. It will come in handy in future work, so it should be left.
   
4. Half the beans are pounded until mashed. If it turns dry, it is diluted with the left broth. Consistency can be any, this is due to preferences.
   
5. The onions are crushed and sautéed in oil until it gains a golden hue.
   
6. Onion slices are attached to the beans and put the container on a small fire.
   
7. Grinding garlic and cilantro, add them to the mixture. They are followed by coriander and suneli hops. You also need to pour vinegar.
   
8. The components are mixed. They are supposed to season with hot pepper.
   

Nutrition value - 89 kcal per 100 g, carbohydrates 13 g, fat -6 g, protein -4 g.

Real Georgian recipe. Video:

Cooking options

The traditional lobio recipe is often modified, supplementing it with other ingredients and experimenting with methods of heat treatment of products. The result is different types of dishes.

This version of the dish will be more rich. For cooking you will need:

• red beans - 500 g;
• cilantro - 50 g;
• beef - 600 g;
• dill;
• tomatoes - 600 g;
• oregano;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• salt;
• onions - 3.

Beans are immersed in cold water and left for several hours to swell. Then the liquid is changed, the container is placed on the stove and the beans are cooked until tender. The meat is cut into pieces, put in a pan, add water and stew for about 25 minutes.

After that, onions chopped into cubes are attached to it and stewing is continued until the meat is ready. Peel the tomatoes and cut the flesh into cubes.

Garlic finely chopped, as well as herbs. All this is sent to the pan, mixed and stewed for another 15 minutes. Cooked beans are slightly kneaded with a spoon and added to the mixture. The dish is supplemented with spices and salt, kept on fire for a few more minutes, after which they turn off and let it brew.

This dish is conveniently cooked using a slow cooker.

To do this, you need the following ingredients:

• beans - 2 glasses;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• onion - 2;
• salt;
• tomato - 2;
• parsley;
• cilantro.

Bean grains are soaked right in the multicooker bowl. After a few hours, the water is changed and cooking begins in the “Extinguishing” mode. This will take about 2 hours.

Garlic, tomatoes and onions are cut into pieces and fried. First, put onions in a pan, then garlic, and at the end - tomatoes. When the beans become soft, they attach the vegetable mixture to it. Extinguishing continues for another half hour.

Cooking in a pot gives Lobio a special flavor. Ingredients for this variety of dishes:

• red beans - 500 g;
• pita bread - 300 g;
• ground black pepper;
• onions - 2;
• dried red pepper - 1;
• sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l;
• salt;
• adjika - 2 tbsp. l;
• coriander - 0.5 tsp;
• garlic - 5 cloves;
• savory - 50 g;
• cilantro - 50 g.

Legumes should be held in water overnight. Then they are placed in a pan and begin to cook. This can take about 2 hours, therefore, as the liquid evaporates, it is necessary to add it.

Prepared pot is greased with sunflower oil and spread onion half rings there. It is followed by broken-up stale pita bread. The next ingredient is boiled beans. It is transferred from the pan to the pot.

All this is sprinkled with chopped herbs and crushed garlic. At the very end add adjika and spices. The oven is preheated to 150 degrees. The pot is placed there for 10 minutes. After that, lobio is considered ready.

Lobio with bell pepper and nuts

You can cook this kind of lobio from the following products:

• canned red beans - 800 g;
• tomatoes - 2;
• onions - 2;
• sunflower oil - 100 ml;
• carrots - 1;
• walnuts - 150 g;
• bell pepper - 6;
• tomato sauce - 50 g;
• hot ketchup - 50 g;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• parsley;
• pepper;
• salt;
• dill;
• basil;
• hops-suneli.

Onions are cut into half rings. Carrots are rubbed through a coarse grater. Seeds are removed from pepper, and the remainder is divided into large cubes. Nuts need to be slightly fried and chopped with a blender.

Tomatoes are poured with boiling water and peeled from them. The pulp is cut into pieces. Washed greens are crushed. Heating sunflower oil in a pan, spread the onion there. When it is fried, add carrots.

After a few minutes, pepper is sent to the pan, followed by tomatoes. Roasting is continued until ready. The beans are drained and the ingredient is added to the rest. All this is mixed, seasoned with tomato sauce and ketchup, sprinkled with seasonings and herbs. Last add nuts. Stew the dish for another 10 minutes.

Lobio sunset for the winter

Lobio can be used not only in the form of lunch or dinner. This dish can be prepared as a preparation for the winter. To do this, you will need:

• beans - 3 glasses;
• vinegar - 75 ml;
• carrots - 1 kg;
• bulgarian pepper - 1 kg;
• salt - 2.5 tbsp. l;
• tomatoes - 2 kg;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. l;
• sunflower oil - 1 cup.

Beans are poured with water and boiled until tender. In a separate container, chopped pepper and grated carrots are combined. Tomatoes are passed through a meat grinder and attached to vegetables. When the beans are ready, they are added to the resulting mixture. The ingredients are seasoned with oil, sprinkled with sugar and salt.

All this is placed in a pan, brought to a boil, after which they reduce the heat and leave to simmer for half an hour. Vinegar is poured at the very end. Lobio can be put in banks and put in the cold.

This variant of lobio can be prepared during fasting, as it turns out to be lean, but nutritious.

Ingredients:

• red beans - 200 g;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• onions - 400 g;
• walnuts - 2 tablespoons;
• tomatoes - 200 g;
• green onion;
• suneli hops - 200 g;
• parsley - 25 g;
• vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
• cilantro - 25 g;
• salt;
• ground black pepper.

Legumes are pre-soaked in water. Then they are put on the stove and cook until tender. The peeled onions are chopped coarsely and fried in sunflower oil. Tomatoes are divided into cubes and sent after the onion.

From the finished beans, decant the liquid and attach to the tomatoes and onions. Salt and seasonings are poured there, finely chopped garlic is added. The dish should be stewed for another 15 minutes.

Roasted and chopped blender nuts spread 5 minutes before the end. After cutting the greens, add it to lobio and turn off the fire. It is advisable that the food stand under a closed lid for another 20 minutes.

Lobio with champignons

The inclusion of champignons in the number of ingredients gives the dish an original taste.

List of components for it:

• champignons - 250 g;
• sunflower oil - 50 ml;
• walnut - 25 g;
• cashews - 25 g;
• red beans - 1 cup;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• salt.

Beans are recommended to fill with water overnight. In the morning they are poured with new water and set to cook. It takes at least an hour and a half. Mushrooms should be washed and chopped coarsely. They are placed in hot oil and fried. Ready mushrooms are placed on a plate and combined with garlic. Nuts are crushed with a knife or a blender. All components are mixed, seasoned with salt and pepper.

Lobio  - A popular vegetable dish of hospitable Georgian cuisine. From Georgian, the name of the dish translates as "beans." The basis of the lobio recipe are boiled legumes.

But, as you know, there are more than a dozen varieties of beans. Thus, several dozen dishes from it bear this name. At least we are used to seeing beans in a dish not as the main ingredients, but as a supplement. Vinaigrette, lean borsch or bean salads are vivid examples of this.

In this recipe, classic red bean lobio, which will form the basis of the dish. The second important component is onions, whose weight is half the weight of legumes.

Note to the hostess:

The taste of the dish will become more saturated if, instead of dried oregano and peppermint, add fresh fragrant herbs. It will take 1 bunch of each item.

Vinegar can be replaced with lemon juice.

Red Bean Lobio Classic Recipe

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min. + time for soaking beans and pickling green stalks

Servings Per Container: 6

Ingredients:

• red beans - 300 g;
• onions - 3 heads;
• tomato - 3 pcs.;
• walnut kernel - 120 g;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• vegetable oil - 60 ml;
• vinegar 3% - 60 ml;
• fresh cilantro - 1 bunch;
• dried oregano - 1 tbsp. l .;
• dried mint - 1 tbsp. l .;
• hops-suneli - 1 tsp;
• ground black pepper - to taste;
• ground red pepper - a pinch;
• salt to taste.

The recipe for a classic red bean lobio:

Sort the beans, and, pouring cold water, leave for 6-8 hours (you can at night).

Rinse the cilantro well, dry it and separate the leaves from the stems. Finely chop the stems, put them in a ceramic or glass bowl and fill with vinegar. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Wash the swollen beans, put in a pan and pour a small amount of cold water (the water should slightly cover the grains). Let the water boil and cook the beans over medium heat under a lid for 45-50 minutes until cooked. As a rule, water already evaporates after this period of time, but if it still remains, drain it away. And if during the cooking process the water evaporates too quickly, then add the required amount of boiling water to the pan.

While the base of lobio (beans) is boiling, prepare the remaining ingredients.

1. Peel the onions and chop coarsely.
2. Wash the tomatoes. Make a cruciform incision on each.
3. Dip the tomatoes in boiling water for literally 30 seconds, remove them with a slotted spoon and remove the skin from them.
4. Then cut the tomatoes into 1x1 cm cubes.
5. Heat the oil in a frying pan, put onion and fry it until golden brown.
6. Add the tomatoes and continue cooking for another 10 minutes over high heat, remembering to stir.
7. Finely chop the leaves of cilantro.
8. Grind walnuts with a knife.
9. Peel and rinse the garlic cloves.
10. Transfer the onions and tomatoes to the pan. Add pickled stalks, chopped cilantro leaves, and walnuts.
11. Add spices - oregano, mint, hops-suneli, ground black and red pepper. Salt to taste.
12. Squeeze the garlic directly into the pan through a press.
13. Mix everything thoroughly. Put on a small fire and warm under the lid for 10 minutes.
14. Add red beans, mix well and warm for another 10 minutes (over low heat under a lid).

Classic red bean lobio is ready. Put it on a large in-depth dish and serve warm to the table, after decorating with cilantro and mint leaves. For red bean lobio, serve warm corn cake on a separate plate.

Classical Georgian cuisine means color, spicy taste, delicious and simple dishes at home. If you are not a fan of this country, it is simply impossible to dislike the traditional dishes of this country.

For example, a Georgian dish like lobio (beans) is a side dish for main dishes and a great snack. There are many different types of cooking lobio. Every woman living in Georgia knows several different recipes for this dish.

Beans are a very nutritious and tasty product, in addition, it is a source of healthy vitamins, vegetable proteins, which is why beans are superior in value to even some types of meat. If you cook, you can help your body, because the protein in the body is absorbed by 80 percent.

Experts have found that all bean lovers are balanced and calm people who have a kind and gentle character. And the presence of potassium, magnesium, iron and other useful substances in beans makes this variety of bean a very useful food product. It is very important that people eat beans after forty years. In addition, nutritionists recommend eating bean dishes several times a week.

Lobio in Georgian - preparation of necessary products

Remember that different types of beans should never be mixed during the cooking of one dish, because due to different cooking times of beans, you can get a different consistency of beans. It is necessary to boil the beans very strongly, and in some recipes it is generally kneaded to a paste state. You can add a piquant taste to the dish by adding various Georgian spices to it.

Here you can add fresh herbs (onions, cilantro, parsley) marjoram, suneli hops, rosemary, white mustard, mint, bay leaf, fenugreek, dill, cinnamon, caraway seeds, saffron, cloves. As a result, you get a not very spicy and fragrant dish, red or black pepper can be added to your liking.

A mandatory attribute of almost every Georgian dish is chopped nuts. Before boiling beans, it must first be soaked in water for a couple of hours, so that it boils faster, and also in order to remove substances that contribute to bloating of the stomach. After that, all the liquid from the beans must be drained, and then pour it with clean water and put on a stove to cook.

Red bean lobio classic recipes - a selection of the best cooking recipes

Red Bean Lobio with Meat Classic Recipe

Red beans are considered the richest source of fiber, which gives a full feeling of satiety. The World Health Organization recommends eating 40 grams of fiber every day, as it helps remove toxins from the human body and helps stabilize blood sugar. The calories contained in red beans are not at all full, so you can eat it at least every day.

To make a classic red bean lobio you need:

• 500 grams of red beans
• 600 grams of tomato,
• 600 grams of lamb pulp,
• 5 cloves of garlic,
• 3 onions,
• Dill, cilantro, hot pepper, vegetable oil, salt

Cooking:

Before you cook this dish, you need to soak the red beans for several hours. Meat must be prepared in advance for this dish. Rinse it, cut into small pieces and fry in sunflower oil for thirty minutes.

To the meat, add peeled and finely chopped tomatoes, as well as chopped onions. Chop pepper and herbs very finely, chop all the garlic in the garlic. Add all these ingredients to the meat pan. Pound the boiled beans thoroughly, mix with all the other ingredients and continue cooking for another seven minutes.

Georgian lobio with tomatoes

Lobio cooked according to this recipe is suitable for fasting. Most people believe that all lean dishes are completely tasteless and not good for the body - but this does not apply to lobio. This dish can be even tastier than some meat dishes.

• 200 grams of red beans
• 400 grams of onion,
• 150 grams suneli hop,
• 200 grams of tomatoes,
• 2 tablespoons chopped nuts
• Chives, parsley, cilantro,
• 2 cloves of garlic,

Cooking:

Boil the beans until soft, previously soaked in water, leave the pot with beans on the stove so that it can soften more. Peel the onion and cut it large enough, add the tomatoes cut into a small cube and all the necessary seasonings.

Continue stewing all contents until all vegetables are boiled. Drain all the liquid from the beans and immediately add it to the lobio. Grind walnuts and garlic thoroughly, add them to the vegetable mixture, add pepper and salt to taste.

In lobio add finely chopped greens, top with a lid and turn on a small fire on the stove. The dish can be served warm and cold. Bon Appetit!

Lobio with champignons

To prepare this dish, it is very important that the boiled beans remain whole. Therefore, beans must be cooked over low heat.

To prepare you need:

• 5 medium onions,
• 250 grams of champignons,
• 200 grams of red beans
• 4 cloves of garlic,
• 50 milligrams of vegetable oil,
• 50 grams of nuts

Cooking:

All beans should be pre-soaked for the whole night, and then boiled in water for 1.5 hours until tender. Rinse the mushrooms and cut into large enough pieces, fry them in warmed sunflower oil until golden brown.

Then transfer the fried mushrooms to a separate plate and add pre-chopped garlic to them. Cut large enough walnuts. combine all the components together, add pepper and salt to them.

Lobio for the winter with vegetables

Home-made canned beans are a rather rare dish that is easier to buy at any grocery store. But it is in vain. Try to cook this vegetable dish, in which the main component is beans, and you probably will not regret it.

To prepare you need:

• 3 cups beans
• 1 kilogram of sweet pepper
• 2 kilograms of ripe tomatoes,
• 1 kilogram of carrots,
• 2.5 tablespoons of salt,
• 200 milligrams of vegetable oil,
• 70 milligrams of vinegar,
• 200 grams of sugar

Cooking:

Boil the beans in water with salt until fully cooked. Peel the whole pepper from the seeds and cut it with a small straw. Let all the tomatoes through a meat grinder, grate the carrots. All vegetables must be mixed, add oil, sugar, salt to them and continue to cook on low heat for half an hour after boiling.

Vinegar can be added about 10 minutes before final cooking. Put all the hot mass in pre-sterilized jars and can roll up the lids.

The largest amount of beans is found in white beans. It is white beans that saturates the body with excess calories. Black and red beans help to cleanse the body, in addition, such beans contain a large amount of anthocyanins - useful substances that slow down the aging of the body.

Green lobio is a dish that is different in taste. The main thing is to learn one important principle, and you can cook a variety of dishes from green bean pods. For example, you can cook lobio with satsivi, scrambled eggs, meat, eggs, walnuts.

You must first boil the beans for 50 minutes, then mix thoroughly with herbs and add melted butter. Stew the dish for 10 minutes in a pan and can be served. Bon Appetit!

String Bean Lobio

Excellent lobio is obtained from green beans; light nut shades are felt in its taste. Serve it on the table as a salad.

Ingredients:

400 grams of frozen beans in pods;
   1 onion;
   a handful of walnuts;
   3 cloves of garlic;
   along a bunch of cilantro and dill;
   freshly ground pepper and salt;
   sunflower oil.

Recipe for string beans:

Finely chop the onion, fry it in sunflower oil, add the beans in the pods. To give the dish a special taste, you can add a mixture of red and green pepper during the frying process. Cover everything and simmer until cooked. About 5-6 minutes before the vegetables are ready for green lobio, add salt. We begin to prepare the dressing. We clean walnuts, finely chop them with a knife.

Garlic is also finely chopped, it is also possible to chop it using a press. Mix chopped greens with nuts, freshly ground pepper, garlic, and sunflower oil. Mix the prepared beans with the cooked dressing.

If desired, pre-peeled tomatoes and seasonings can be added to lobio from green beans, and “hops-suneli” will be perfect. We serve the dish on the table, it can act as a salad and complement the taste of other dishes.

Bean Lobio with Meat

This cooking option is pretty unusual, because there is meat. The taste of the dish is original, special, you will definitely like it.

Ingredients:
   500 grams of beans;
   600 grams of beef and tomatoes;
   4 onions;
   5 cloves of garlic;
   a bunch of cilantro and dill;
   dried oregano;
   salt.

Dip the tomatoes with boiling water, then place in cold water for a couple of minutes. Remove the peel from the tomatoes, cut them into cubes. Add tomatoes to the finished meat. We put chopped garlic with herbs there, simmer for 10 minutes.

Beans are added to meat and vegetables, cook for 5 minutes, stirring. Cover the dish and let it brew for 20 minutes. That’s what happened lobio, the recipe with a photo showed in detail the whole cooking process. Cook a delicious, light and satisfying meal for your family.

Lobio is a national Georgian specialty dish, which is popular not only in Georgia, but among all the peoples of the Transcaucasus, including the southern parts of Russia as a whole. The dish is very interesting in that it, in fact, is a bean stew, but the combination of the usual ingredients gives such an exquisite and nutritious result that lobio is served in many restaurants around the world.

In Georgia, every housewife has her own recipe for this dish and her secrets, but the rest of the housewives can cook in a classic way.

Classic recipe

Consider in detail the classic recipe.

In the Caucasus, lobio is prepared both on a casual and festive table, always using a large number of spices and spices, usually added at personal discretion.

But in general terms, to prepare a classic Georgian lobio, you need this set:

• 1 cup red dry beans;
• 1 medium onion;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 100 gr. walnuts;
• 1 bitter pepper;
• 1 cup tomato juice;
• 1 teaspoon apple (or wine) vinegar;
• salt pepper;
• fresh herbs (preferably cilantro) - to taste.

Cooking time: about an hour plus a night for soaking the beans.

With beans soaked at night, you need to drain the water and rinse it several times in running water, then put on fire to cook for forty minutes, stirring occasionally.

While the beans are being prepared, cut the onion in half rings and fry it in oil.

Chop the garlic and walnuts, mix and add to the onion pan along with the already cooked beans. Pour in tomato juice, season with pepper, salt and finely chopped hot pepper pods, mix and put in a stew dish for about ten minutes.

Ready lobio is sprinkled with chopped fresh herbs and served hot.

For a complete Georgian surroundings, you can serve corn tortillas and slices of cheese to it.

Lobio in Georgian

Like it all, all dishes from beans take quite a lot of time: you need to remember to soak the beans overnight, then boil them for a long time, etc. However, there is an express option with which all lovers of lobio will be able to get this dish as soon as possible.

• 2 cans of red canned beans (natural);
• 2 medium onions;
• 6 tbsp. tablespoons of unrefined oil;
• 100 gr. walnuts;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tbsp. a spoon of natural wine vinegar;
• green onions, parsley (or cilantro) - to taste;
• salt pepper.

Cooking time: approximately 30 minutes.

Calorie content: about 90 KK / 100 gr.

Grind walnuts and garlic (you can do this in a blender) and add wine vinegar and chopped greens to them. Finely chopped onion is fried in butter until golden, then you need to add all the tomato paste to it and simmer for a couple of minutes on a quiet fire.

Discard the canned beans in a colander and put in a frying pan for tomato frying, seasoning the hops with suneli, salt and pepper, then cook everything together for a few more minutes.

After removing from heat, season the dish with a garlic-nut mass, mix and leave under the lid for another 10 minutes to insist and soak.

Oven in red bean lobio with meat in pots

Dishes in pots have a special charm, so they are very loved by everyone. Most often, some meat dishes are prepared in pots, and lobio is no exception here - it can also be prepared in this way. Lobio in pots is very saturated.

• 0.5 kg of red dry beans;
• 0.5 kg of pork;
• 4 medium onions;
• 2 medium carrots;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of thick tomato paste;
• 1 bunch of parsley;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of unrefined oil;
• 1 bay leaf;
• salt, pepper, spices to taste.

Cooking time: approximately 1.5 hours.

Calorie content: about 150 Kk / 100 gr.

Soak the beans overnight and rinse several times in running water, then cook with the addition of bay leaf and without salt, which will take about forty minutes. Water is not completely drained from the beans, leaving a small amount at the bottom.

While it is boiling, make a frying of onions and carrots, frying them until cooked, adding at the end tomato paste and chopped garlic, as well as spices. Cut the meat into small slices, chop the parsley.

It remains to lay all the blanks in pots in repeating layers - beans with water in which they were cooked, meat, roasting, greens - cover them with lids and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for half an hour. Serve this lobio hot.

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How to cook in a slow cooker

Modern household appliances make life easier for housewives, leaving them time to do other household chores. So, classic lobio can also be cooked in a slow cooker, and it will turn out to be as spicy and satisfying as the usual version.

Essential ingredients (per 1 serving):

• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of red dry beans;
• 1 small onion;
• 1 teaspoon of thick tomato paste or adjika;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of cream and 1 tbsp. a spoon of unrefined vegetable oil;
• 1 teaspoon of natural apple cider vinegar;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped walnuts;
• 1 teaspoon seasoning hops-suneli;
• cilantro, salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking time: approximately 1 hour 10 minutes.

Calorie content: about 100 Kk / 100 gr.

Soaked at night and washed beans should be put in a multicooker bowl and pour water so that it covers the beans. If the multicooker has the "Beans" mode, then you need to set it for 60 minutes, or set the "Extinguishing" mode for 70 minutes.

While cooking, you need to peel and chop the onions and garlic - they will need to be added to the beans ten minutes before the end of its cooking, along with adjika or tomato paste.

Then vinegar, sunflower and butter are added to the bowl, along with walnuts, salt and pepper. When the multicooker program finishes its work, it remains to add the hops-suneli, chopped cilantro to the dish, mix everything and let it stand for 5 minutes.

To get lobio as similar or even indistinguishable from a classic Georgian dish, you need to know a few basic secrets in its preparation:

1. The standard ratio of boiling water to beans is two to one. Their readiness can be determined by slightly torn skin (so as not to try "by little tooth").
2. For lobio, cooked beans are usually slightly crushed, but this should be done without effort, so that the dish as a result does not turn into a viscous bean porridge.
3. Mixing different types of beans for cooking lobio is not worth it, because each of them has its own cooking time, so the dish will not work.
4. Despite the fact that lobio implies the use of spices and herbs, you don’t need to be overly zealous with them, and you shouldn’t add a lot of spices to the dish at once - just a few basic ingredients are enough.
5. Beans must be soaked overnight before cooking. The minimum time for soaking is 4 hours, and ideally the beans need to be soaked for 12 hours.
6. Lobio can be made with different types of meat, including chicken, mushrooms, vegetables - for example, with eggplant, and with almost any kind of herbs and spices.
7. Georgian lobio is a low-calorie dish, but the most high-calorie dish is white bean, or any bean made with meat.

Lobio is a popular Georgian dish, which is a boiled bean with spices. There are many variations - sometimes lobio is cooked with nuts, tomatoes, sweet pepper, supplemented with pomegranate seeds. There are even meat options for the dish. But the main "companions" of beans are still cilantro, garlic, vinegar and fried onions.

Today we’ll look at a basic red bean lobio recipe. Due to the boiled beans, the dish turns out to be thick, saturated, satisfying and enveloping. And spices and spices give an amazing aroma and enhance the taste.

Ingredients:

• dry red beans - 800 g;
• onions - 3 heads;
• cilantro - a large bunch;
• garlic - 5-7 teeth;
• hops-suneli - 3 teaspoons;
• ground coriander - 2 tsp;
• red hot pepper - to taste;
• salt to taste;
• wine vinegar - 30 ml;
• vegetable oil - about 50 ml.

Georgian red bean lobio recipe with photo

1. Soak the beans in cold water overnight or at least 3-4 hours.
   
2. Then we change the liquid - fill the beans with clean water, boil. Cook for 5-10 minutes and drain the first broth. We wash the beans, pour new water and bring to a boil again.
   
3. Boil over low heat without a lid for about two hours. Cooking time greatly depends on the variety and age of the beans, so after an hour of cooking, you can periodically try the beans. When the beans become soft and boiled, remove the pan from the stove. Drain and store the liquid - it will come in handy during the preparation process.
   
4. Next, you need to grind half the beans in mashed potatoes. You can do this right in the pan, visually dividing the contents into 2 equal portions and crushing one part with a crush. Or transfer half of the beans to another container, crush and return back to the pan. If the mass is dry, add the broth previously drained from the beans until the desired consistency is obtained. Lobio is prepared both thick and quite liquid - it all depends on personal preferences.
   
5. Grind all the onions with a knife and fry in hot oil until golden.
   
6. Stir the beans with onion slices. Simmer the mixture over low heat.
   
7. We chop finely garlic teeth and cilantro, load to the bean mass. Add the suneli hops, coriander, pour the vinegar.
   
8. Mix, salt and add hot pepper. The amount of garlic and other additives can be varied to taste, but in any case, the dish should not turn out to be fresh!
   
9. We serve red bean lobio in Georgian hot.
   

Bon Appetit!