Lobio is a national dish of Georgian cuisine. Its preparation is characterized by the addition of a large amount of spices and seasonings characteristic of the Georgian people’s cuisine, as well as fresh greens.
There are many options for making lobio. Among them are vegetarian lobio, mushroom, with meat and chopped walnuts, with eggs and pomegranate juice. This is quite a hearty dish, which, after one preparation, will become a permanent “guest” on your table.
Lobio (step-by-step recipe) - general principles of cooking
Cilantro, parsley and basil are mainly used as greens. Also among the essential components in lobio are garlic and beans.
Rinse the preserved beans, before sending them into the dish, and soak them dry, leave to stand overnight, then boil.
Lobio should not be extinguished for a long time so that it does not boil soft. The finished dish should be kneaded with a special crush, but this should be done very carefully.
Served as a main dish or as a side dish. Even when cold, lobio remains tasty.
Lobio in Georgian classic: step-by-step recipe
Ingredients
• 300 g dry red beans;
• two cloves of garlic;
• one carrot;
• one head of onion;
• 60 g of tomato paste;
• 60 ml of sunflower oil;
• 30 g fresh parsley;
• 15 g hops-suneli;
• salt to taste;
• 10-15 g sugar.
Cooking
1. To cook lobio in Georgian (step-by-step recipe), you first need to pre-process the dry beans. To do this, sort it, if there are any impurities or damaged beans, remove them.
2. Then pour the selected beans into a suitable size bowl and fill with cold water. Slightly mix. Water is drained.
3. Pour water into the beans again and mix again. Drain all the water.
4. For the last time in this step-by-step recipe, pour lobio into a bowl of cool water and set aside for one or two hours. 5. We are waiting until the grains are saturated with water and swell. The time of this procedure depends on the size of the beans, small swell faster than large ones.
6. Now wash the beans with a new portion of cool water.
7. We shift it to the pan and pour water there.
8. Turn on the stove heating and put the pan on it.
9. After the water boils, reduce the heat to a minimum and loosely cover the pan with a lid.
10. Do not touch the pan for an hour.
11. But, if the broth has time to boil before an hour has passed, add hot boiled water and boil again.
12. A few minutes before the end of cooking, add salt to the beans and mix with a tablespoon or ladle.
13. In the free hour, while the beans are boiled, you can do other products.
14. Cut off the neck and bottom of the onion with a sharp knife and clean the head from dry scales. Rinse the head in cool water. In order not to cry, while cleaning the burning onions, periodically moisten the knife in cold water.
15. In a carrot, we cut off the thin skin by the housekeeper, and also rinse. If the carrot is young, just fresh from the garden, it may not be cleaned at all. Just cut off the tail and the "ass", and the carrot itself is well washed with your hands under a stream of cool drinking water.
16. Put the washed vegetables in one bowl and push the cutting board towards you.
17. Cut on it first onions. Cut the head in half and put half on the board cut down. Cut with a knife in the middle along and now cut into thin plates across. So it turns into half-cut half-rings of onion.
18. Cut the carrot along lengthwise. These plates are laid in several pieces in a pile. Cut them into thin sticks across. This is slicing straws. But you can make this cut in a different way. Cut the carrot into thin (1-2 mm thick) round specimens. Put together a few of these rounds in a pile and cut into thin strips. It turns out the same straw.
19. Take the stewpan. This is a frying pan with high sides. Pour there sunflower oil.
20. Put the stewpan to moderate heating of the stove.
21. We shift sliced vegetables into it: onions and carrots. 22. Next step-by-step lobio recipe is continued by passaging vegetables in a skillet. This means that the vegetables should warm up well and be half-cooked. But do not be completely fried.
23. While vegetables are being processed, they should be slightly stirred with a wooden spatula for uniform heat treatment. For this procedure, it is taken wooden equipment, as many modern pans can simply scratch on the blades of other materials. But, if you have an old cast-iron frying pan, maybe inherited from your grandmother, she will have nothing to stir even with an ordinary iron spatula or spoon.
24. So, 4-5 minutes have passed and the vegetables are as they should be.
25. Now we put the ready beans in a saucepan.
26. Add tomato paste. By the way, if you didn’t have it, the usual ketchup is perfect.
27. Stir.
28. Pour the broth from the pan, in which the beans were cooked. The broth should almost cover the beans, but not completely.
29. Cover the saucepan with a lid and simmer all its contents for about a quarter of an hour.
30. And at this time we continue our step-by-step recipe for lobio processing of garlic.
31. Clean it from the skin and rinse in running water.
32. We press teeth through a special garlic press or finely chop them on the cutting board with a knife.
33. Add garlic to the skillet.
34. Thoroughly mix and re-cover the lid. Stew foods further.
35. We roam the greens of the rooster. We throw out the yellow and damaged leaves.
36. Selected leaves soaked in a cup of cold water. At this time, all the sand and dirt sink to the bottom of the cup. A green floats above.
37. We collect greens and rinse it under running water.
38. Drain a little, putting on a clean kitchen towel.
39. Chop the greens finely with a knife.
40. Open the lid of the saucepan and pour parsley on the products.
41. Add salt and sugar and Georgian hop-suneli seasoning.
42. Mix our lobio.
43. Cover again and simmer another 3-4 minutes.
44. If during the whole process of quenching, the broth has time to boil away, you can add it some more.
45. Finished lobio slightly mne tolkushkoy and laid out on a la carte plates or in a large common dish.
Spicy Lobio with Nuts and Brisket: A Step-by-Step Recipe
Ingredients
• 300 g canned red beans;
• 100 g peeled walnuts;
• 50 g smoked-boiled brisket;
• 150 g onion;
• 100 g tkemali sauce (can be replaced with wine vinegar);
• bunch of cilantro greens;
• 10 g mint greens;
• 20 g green basil;
• 20 g young dill;
• 15 g hops-suneli;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• salt to taste;
• to taste black pepper;
• 50 ml of sunflower oil.
Cooking
1. Step-by-step recipe for cooking lobio with nuts starting with vegetables. In onions, cut the bottom and neck, remove the dry scales and rinse the onions in water.
2. Cut the onion heads in half.
3. Then put half on the chopping board and cut lengthwise into thin pieces. Now across, maintaining a width of 2-3 mm. It turns out fine cutting dice. So we deal with all the onions.
4. Pour sunflower oil into a saucepan or cauldron.
5. We pour out the chopped onion to the butter and put on a moderate heating of the plate. We warm up a few minutes.
6. While we take smoked-boiled bacon. We put it on a chopping board and cut it into thin plates, and put them into straws.
7. Spread the bacon straws onion.
8. Mix and continue passaging for 3-4 minutes.
9. Rinse, wipe with a cloth and open a can of canned beans. Put the beans together with the broth from the jar to the saucepan to the onion.
10. We mix.
11. Add tkemali sauce and mix again. If you do not have this sauce, replace it with wine vinegar or sliced, dried or fresh tomatoes.
12. Cover with a lid, reduce the heating of the stove and simmer.
13. In the ingredients of the step-by-step lobio recipe with peanuts, peeled walnuts are used. They also need to prepare.
14. Take a clean, dry frying pan.
15. We put nuts there and put them on a small heating plate. Fry them, stirring. When we feel the characteristic smell of roasted nuts, remove the pan from the heat.
16. We shift the nuts in a cup and try to clear the hands of dark skin. It is cleaned easily in those places that had time to warm up. It's okay if a little skin still remains. 17. Now in portions we cut the peeled nuts on the cutting board with a cook knife. The result should be a nut crumb.
18. Open the lid of the saucepan with lobio and pour nuts there.
19. Stir and re-close the lid. If the liquid has boiled away, you can add a little hot boiled water.
20. For now we are engaged in greens. All its (cilantro, mint, basil and dill) we sort out. We need only fresh green leaves, throw out the rest.
21. Selected herbs are placed in a bowl and filled with cold water. Mix and wait 1-2 minutes.
22. Then take out the leaves and wash them with running water. Lay out on a napkin to dry at room temperature.
23. Finely shred leaves. Divide into two portions.
24. Add half of the greenery to lobio and mix.
25. Stew further.
26. Garlic cleaned and rinsed. We press through the garlic press.
27. Mix the garlic gruel with a pinch of salt and rub with a spoon. Add this mixture to the skillet to other products.
28. Also add hops-suneli, ground pepper.
29. Stir and simmer another minute.
30. Add the second portion of greens and try on the salt. If you need to salt, do it.
31. Stir the finished dish and turn off the heating plate.
32. Arrange the dish on plates and enjoy its taste and aroma.
Lobio (step-by-step recipe) - tricks and tips
• Ingredients for lobio can be selected on your own. You can add any meat or vegetables to this dish.
• If the peel of the beans began to peel, then it is ready.
• You can cook a dish of both white and red beans. Cooking time is different.
• An excellent spicy addition to the dish is cilantro.
