persian food-Herbs’ stew (ghorme sabzi)

Ingredients: (4 servings)

• Beef or lamb: 500 grams
• Onion: 1-2
• Black eye beans or kidney beans: ¾ cup
• Spinach: 1/5 cups
• Parsley: ½ cup
• Coriander: ¼ cup
• Tareh (garlic chives): ¼ cup
• Shanbelileh (fenugreek): ¼ cup
• Spring onions: 1 cup
• Crushed limes: 2-3 or lime juice
• Oil: 1/3 cup
• Salt
• Turmeric
• Black pepper (red pepper is optional)
• Water

Directions:

Soak black eye or kidney beans into the warm water for 2-3 hours. Cut onions in small pieces and fry, when onions become golden, add turmeric. Cut meat in pieces (not very small) and add to onions, let fry and change color to brown.

Wash all vegetables and chop, then pour some oil into the pan and fry them until wilted.

Add black eye or kidney beans and fried vegetables to the meat.

Pour 2-3 glasses of water to the pot, then add crushed limes, after water start boiling turn down the heat, place the pot’s lid on and let cook very slowly for 2-21/2 hours.

Add salt, black pepper and if you like stew be more sour, add 1-1/2 spoons of lime juice.

After half of one hour, stew is ready.

This Iranian famous food can serve with white rice.