Slow-Cooked Green Beans with Tomatoes and Olive Oil

By Casa de Suna

Published Jan 26

We love a snappy, blanched green bean, but we also adore the melt-in-your-mouth, slow-cooked green beans popular in Turkish cuisine.

Trust us when we say: this technique revolutionized the way we think about cooking vegetables and we’re certain it will do the same for you.

How to Make It

Overall Time: 55 min

Prep Time: 25 min

Cook Time: 40 min

Serves: 4

INGREDIENTS
  • 3 tbsp good-quality olive oil
  • 1 medium onion, sliced
  • 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
  • Aleppo pepper, to taste (optional)
  • 4 ripe Roma tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 lbs Italian flat beans or green beans, trimmed
  • ½ tsp fine kosher salt
  • ½ cup roughly chopped mint or dill
  • Greek yogurt, for serving

INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add oil then onion and garlic. Cook until onion has softened, but not browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Add Aleppo pepper, if using, and cook for 30 seconds. Stir in beans and cook until bright green, 2 to 4 minutes.
  2. Add tomatoes and salt. Bring to a boil then cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook until beans are very tender, and tomatoes are saucy, about 30 minutes.
  3. Remove from heat then stir in mint or dill. Serve with yogurt.

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