Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo)
Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo)

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, beef and green bean rice (loobia polo). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Baaghaali polo baa morgh (dill and fava bean rice with braised chicken) was my favorite dish during my childhood. So whenever I smell it, I'm instantly This is our family recipe for loobia polo. Lubia Polo is a one-pot Persian dish with rice, ground beef, green beans, tomato sauce, and curry spices. You will need a nonstick pan so you can invert the dish onto a serving platter and preserve My Mother-in-law taught me how to Loobia Polow they way her Iranian mother-in-law taught her in Iran!

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have beef and green bean rice (loobia polo) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo):
  1. Make ready lean minced beef
  2. Take tumeric
  3. Make ready onion (half diced/puréed, half chopped into strips for frying)
  4. Get (heaped) tomato purée
  5. Get green beans
  6. Prepare olive oil (plus enough to cover the base of a pan for crispy rice)
  7. Take butter
  8. Take cinnamon
  9. Get basmati rice (3 cups)
  10. Take saffron dissolved in 40 ml warm water (optional)
  11. Take Salt
  12. Get Pepper

The ingredients are common kitchen staples that are easily available. It is absolutely delicious and a recipe that is a keeper. This low calorie green bean recipe with rice is an easy spicy rice and beans recipe with tomato. Sabrina Ghayour takes a classic Persian recipe, loobia polow (rice cooked with green beans and meat), and made it veggie for a showstopping meat-free main.

Instructions to make Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo):
  1. Add beef and diced onion to a large pan, mix together well breaking up the beef with your spatula. Mix in salt, pepper, and turmeric. Don’t be shy with the seasoning! Put the pot on medium heat. The beef will release some of its own liquid as it’s cooking, when this liquid has evaporated cook for 2 more minutes. Finally add the tomato paste, stir and cook for 2 more minutes then remove from the heat.
  2. Gently steam green beans in a small pan with a lid for 10mins. Add a little olive oil and cook them for 2 more minutes to bring out the colour. Add beans to the beef mixture. (Optional: now fry the chopped onion in the pan used for the beans until golden, add these to the beef mix too.)
  3. Gently heat the beef/bean/onion mix over a medium heat. Add the cinnamon. Add more salt and pepper to taste. Once your happy with the flavour put to one side.
  4. Wash basmati rice thoroughly to remove the starch (rinse at least 5 times). Boil a large pan of water, lightly salted and add the rice. When half cooked (10 minutes) remove from heat, strain rice into a colander and rinse it with cold water to stop it cooking.
  5. Add enough olive oil to cover the base of the pot. Layer rice, saffron water (optional), and beef mix in the pan starting and ending with rice. Poke six holes to the bottom with the handle of a butter knife. Heat for 5-10 minutes on medium heat. When water appears on the lid stir the butter into the top layer of rice, wrap the lid in a tea towel and replace.
  6. Cook on low heat for 25-30 minutes. Your dinner is ready! Upturn the pot for dramatic effect.

This low calorie green bean recipe with rice is an easy spicy rice and beans recipe with tomato. Sabrina Ghayour takes a classic Persian recipe, loobia polow (rice cooked with green beans and meat), and made it veggie for a showstopping meat-free main. Loobia polo (Persian: لوبیا پلو‎) is an Iranian dish of rice, green beans, and beef or lamb. In the Persian language, loobia means bean while polo is a style of cooked rice, known in English as pilaf. It is made by sautéing onion and beef, cooked green beans and spices, such as cinnamon, turmeric.

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