The benefits and harms of the dish
The beneficial and harmful properties of any dish depend on the components included in its composition. The main ingredient of lobio is red beans. It contains many valuable amino acids, proteins, fiber, vitamins and minerals.
This allows us to consider lobio beneficial for the body. Its use can improve immunity and cleanse the body of toxins. The calorie content is low, which allows it to be included in the diet.
But it still has certain contraindications. This product is undesirable for chronic gastrointestinal diseases and kidney inflammation. Also, lobio should not be consumed frequently by nursing mothers, pregnant women and young children.
The dish should be prepared in compliance with technology, since raw red beans contain toxic substances. During cooking they are destroyed and the product becomes safe.
Lobio in a slow cooker
Lobio turns out tender and juicy in a slow cooker.
To do this you will need the following components:
- 350 g beans;
- bulb;
- garlic;
- tomato paste;
- greenery;
- salt and suitable seasonings.
Cooking process:
- Place pre-soaked beans in the bowl of the device and add water so that it covers the beans by 3-4 cm.
- Set the “Stew” or “Soup” mode and cook the main component for at least one and a half hours.
- Chop the onion into half rings, crush the garlic in a press and add to the beans.
- Add tomato paste, chopped herbs, salt and spices, stir, cook in stew mode.
To make lobio more nutritious, add chopped walnuts to it a few minutes before it is ready.
Food preparation
The basis of this work is the choice of the main ingredient. You need to determine what type of crop will be used and purchase it. It is necessary to pay attention to expiration dates - this will improve the quality of the dish.
It is also worth assessing the appearance. Rotten or pest-damaged grains should be thrown away. Most often, beans are pre-soaked to reduce cooking time. Some recipes allow the use of canned product.
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 the seasonings indicated in the recipe. But experiments in accordance with preferences are also acceptable.
Lobio in pots in the oven
Many dishes become much tastier if cooked in the oven, and lobio is no exception.
To work you will need:
- beans at the rate of 100 g per serving;
- garlic cloves, 1-2 pieces per container;
- sweet peppers according to the number of pots;
- onions, ½ head per serving;
- tomato paste;
- favorite greens;
- salt and seasonings to taste;
- boiled water.
Preparation procedure:
- Rinse the pre-soaked beans and boil for a quarter of an hour, then drain the liquid, cool slightly and place in pots.
- Peel the onion, garlic, pepper, chop and add to the beans.
- Salt the ingredients, add tomato paste, spices, pour boiled water so that it completely covers the dish and place in the oven.
- When the beans become soft, remove the containers from the oven, sprinkle the lobio with chopped herbs and place on the table.
Advice. It takes quite a long time to keep the lobio in the oven, but to significantly reduce the time, you should use green or canned beans as a base.
Classic Georgian recipe with photos
The process of preparing lobio is worth studying according to the classic recipe.
It involves 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 tsp. l.;
- salt;
- garlic – 7 cloves;
- hot red pepper – 1 g;
- khmeli-suneli – 3 tsp.
The listed ingredients allow you to prepare enough food for 5 people.
- Bean grains are poured with cold water and left to soak for at least 4 hours. But it is better to let the product sit in water overnight.
- In the morning, change the water and put the beans on the fire. It should boil and cook for about 10 minutes. The broth must be strained, new water poured in and brought to a boil again.
- Reduce the heat to low and continue cooking for another two hours without covering the pan with a lid. It may take more or less time, depending on the type of bean. But usually this takes at least an hour. When the beans are boiled, you can turn off the stove and drain the liquid. It will be useful in further work, so it should be left.
- Half the beans are pounded until pureed. If it turns out dry, it is diluted with the remaining broth. The consistency can be any, this is due to preference.
- The onion is chopped and sautéed in oil until it acquires a golden hue.
- The onion slices are added to the beans and the container is placed on low heat.
- After chopping the garlic and cilantro, add them to the mixture. They are followed by coriander and suneli hops. You also need to add vinegar.
- The components are mixed. They are supposed to be seasoned with hot pepper.
Nutritional value - 89 kcal per 100 g, carbohydrates 13 g, fat -6 g, protein -4 g.
A real Georgian recipe. Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boQAH8Zrs20
Quick tomato lobio
To make a quick lobio from beans, you should use this recipe. This dish will not be inferior in taste to the classic version.
To work you will need:
- 300 g beans;
- bulb;
- carrot;
- several juicy tomatoes;
- garlic cloves;
- 50 g wheat flour;
- salt and suitable spices;
- greenery.
Cooking sequence:
- Let the soaked beans cook, and when they are ready, drain the water and let cool.
- Cut the onion into half rings, chop the carrots on a grater, and crush the garlic with a press and place in a frying pan.
- After the vegetables become soft, add chopped tomatoes, salt, seasonings and continue stewing.
- When the frying is ready, lay out the beans, sprinkle with chopped herbs and keep on the fire for some more time.
Advice. To make tomato lobio even faster, it is better to use green beans as a base.
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.
Lobio with meat
This version of the dish will be more rich. For preparation you will need:
- red beans – 500 g;
- cilantro – 50 g;
- beef – 600 g;
- dill;
- tomatoes – 600 g;
- oregano;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- salt;
- onions – 3.
The 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, placed in a frying pan, water is added and simmered for about 25 minutes.
After this, add diced onions to it and continue stewing until the meat is ready. The skins are removed from the tomatoes and the pulp is cut into cubes.
The garlic is finely chopped, as are the greens. All this is sent to the frying pan, mixed and simmered for another 15 minutes. Mash the cooked beans a little with a spoon and add to the mixture. The dish is supplemented with spices and salt, kept on the fire for a few more minutes, then turned off and allowed to brew.
Lobio in a slow cooker
This dish is convenient to prepare using a slow cooker.
For this you need the following ingredients:
- beans – 2 cups;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- onion – 2;
- salt;
- tomato – 2;
- parsley;
- cilantro.
Bean grains are soaked directly in the multicooker bowl. After a few hours, change the water and start cooking in the “Stew” mode. This will take about 2 hours.
Garlic, tomatoes and onions are cut into pieces and fried. First put the onions in the pan, then the garlic and finally the tomatoes. When the beans become soft, add the vegetable mixture to them. The simmering continues for another half hour.
Lobio in a pot
Cooking in a pot gives lobio a special taste. Ingredients for this type of dish:
- red beans – 500 g;
- lavash – 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 kept in water overnight. Then they are placed in a pan and begin to cook. This may take about 2 hours, so as the liquid evaporates, you will need to top it up.
The prepared pot is greased with sunflower oil and onion half rings are placed there. It is followed by stale pita bread broken into pieces. 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, adjika and spices are added. The oven is preheated to 150 degrees. The pot is placed there for 10 minutes. After this, the lobio is considered ready.
Lobio with bell pepper and nuts
You can prepare this type 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;
- spicy ketchup – 50 g;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- parsley;
- pepper;
- salt;
- dill;
- basil;
- khmeli-suneli.
The onion is cut into half rings. Rub the carrots through a coarse grater. The seeds are removed from the pepper and the remainder is divided into large cubes. The nuts need to be lightly fried and chopped using a blender.
Tomatoes are doused with boiling water and the skins are removed. The pulp is cut into pieces. The washed greens are chopped. After heating the sunflower oil in a frying pan, add the onions. When it is fried, add carrots.
After a few minutes, add the peppers to the pan, followed by the tomatoes. Continue frying until done. The liquid is drained from the beans and the ingredient is added to the rest. All this is mixed, seasoned with tomato sauce and ketchup, seasonings and herbs are sprinkled. The nuts are added last. The dish needs to simmer for another 10 minutes.
Setting up lobio for the winter
Lobio can be used not only as lunch or dinner. This dish can be prepared as a preparation for the winter. For this you will need:
- beans - 3 cups;
- vinegar – 75 ml;
- carrots – 1 kg;
- bell pepper – 1 kg;
- salt – 2.5 tbsp. l;
- tomatoes – 2 kg;
- sugar – 1 tbsp. l;
- sunflower oil – 1 cup.
The beans are filled with water and cooked until tender. In a separate container, combine chopped peppers and grated carrots. The tomatoes are passed through a meat grinder and added to the vegetables. When the legumes are ready, they are added to the resulting mixture. The ingredients are seasoned with oil, sugar and salt are added.
Place all this in a frying pan, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and leave to simmer for half an hour. Vinegar is poured at the very end. Lobio can be placed in jars and refrigerated.
Lobio with tomatoes
This version of lobio can be prepared during fasting, as it turns out to be low-fat but nutritious.
Ingredients:
- red beans – 200 g;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- onion – 400 g;
- walnuts – 2 tbsp;
- tomatoes – 200 g;
- green onion;
- khmeli-suneli – 200 g;
- parsley – 25 g;
- vegetable oil – 1 tbsp;
- cilantro – 25 g;
- salt;
- ground black pepper.
The legumes are pre-soaked in water. Then they are placed on the stove and cooked until cooked. Peeled onions are chopped coarsely and fried in sunflower oil. The tomatoes are divided into cubes and sent after the onions.
The liquid is drained from the finished beans and added to the tomatoes and onions. Salt and seasonings are poured there, finely chopped garlic is added. The dish should simmer for another 15 minutes.
Place the roasted and blended nuts 5 minutes before the end. After cutting the greens, add them to the lobio and turn off the heat. It is advisable for the food to stand under the closed lid for another 20 minutes.
Lobio with champignons
The inclusion of champignons among the 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.
It is recommended to soak the beans in water overnight. In the morning they are filled with new water and set to boil. This will take at least an hour and a half. The champignons need to be washed and coarsely chopped. They are placed in hot oil and fried. The finished mushrooms are transferred to a plate and combined with garlic. The nuts are crushed with a knife or blender. All components are mixed, seasoned with salt and pepper.
Green bean lobio
To prepare green bean lobio, you can take the main ingredient fresh or frozen.
For the dish you will need:
- 500 g pods;
- egg;
- onion;
- garlic;
- hot pepper and Caucasian seasonings;
- greenery;
- salt.
Sequence of work:
- Peel the onion and garlic cloves and fry in a pan until soft.
- Rinse the bean pods, strain off the liquid, if necessary, cut into several pieces with a knife and send for frying.
- When the beans are ready, sprinkle them with salt and seasonings, break the egg on top and continue frying, stirring constantly, and after a few minutes remove from the heat.
Serve the dish hot or cooled, sprinkled with chopped herbs.
Important nuances
Lobio made from canned red beans is almost impossible to spoil, because it is very easy to prepare. The hostess just needs to take into account some nuances.
- Mixing dry and canned beans is not recommended as they require different amounts of cooking time.
- The presence of onions is a must, because without them the dish does not taste at all like real lobio.
- The taste characteristics of a dish largely depend on what set of spices is used for it. The main feature of Georgian cuisine is a large amount of herbs, spices and hot seasonings. Opponents of spicy food can opt for the lobio option made from canned beans without pepper. Beans, garlic and herbs are integral components. The most preferred are cilantro, basil, and mint. You can use the universal seasoning hops - suneli - instead. Please note that it contains hot pepper.
- Traditionally, walnut kernels are used to prepare lobio. However, this is not a mandatory component.
- Since canned beans already contain a large amount of salt, there is no need to add salt to the dish.
In Georgia, the traditional addition to lobio is khachapuri or lavash, which only emphasize its extraordinary taste. You can store it in the refrigerator for a week, which will prevent the owners from being taken by surprise if unexpected guests arrive.
This article will focus on how to prepare lobio from canned red beans and beans with minced meat.
