Broad Βeans & Blites Salad

We are going through a limp week, between an undecided spring and a summer that does not seem to have made a decision to settle. So adjusting our mood to the «big question of life»!?!: what do we eat today, we cook broad beans. A legume rather despised now and some may not even know of the existence of.
Broad Beans are eaten fresh with artichokes, peas, etc. But dry, boiled as a salad or liquor, here our case. Onions, fresh tomato, bay leaves and oregano make this dish scream out of enthusiasm. They are accompanied and eaten with a salad blitum, feta, olives and barley rusk.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 12h:00′

easy:

Yellow Split Pea with Caper

Fava beans are a legume and not so common in our daily meals. However, despite the strict austerity of its presence in our Kitchen Stories, it is considered to be one of the most delicious dishes of legumes that we honor most often.
Gentle, delicate flavor and velvety texture in cream form is eaten as an accompaniment to ouzo-wine but also as a main dish with olives, feta cheese, toasted slices of home bread and a glass of red wine.
Throughout Greece, we know as the famous products of the Greek motherland the delicious Prespes beans, Sifnos chickpeas, Amorgo fava beans, Skyros and the most famous of all of Santorini, where it is grown for hundreds of years. All legumes are an enormous nutritional value for a Mediterranean / Greek diet with many health benefits.
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work: 30′

time: 50′

easy:

Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions

Fava is delicious legume and tastiest are the fava Santorini. Combined with raw olive oil & raw, chopped onion or fried and caramelized onions with fresh tomatoes or tomatoes rain-fed Santorini. Then we give the title of "married!". Additionally we can enhance the flavor in vinegar with olives, capers, fennel, fennel & lemon.
Usually served as a summer ouzo meze and on your Lenten table.
Try it!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Black-eyed Pea Salad

Pulses are known as the food of the people from ancient times. The proteins they contain may be substituted to some extent the animal proteins, necessary for human nutrition. They are rich sources of complex carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, forming an integral part of the Mediterranean diet.
The Black-eyed beans and lentils contain large amounts of iron.
The black-eyed salad is very easy and quick to make, since they do not need to be soaked for many hours like other legumes. Season with aromatic herbs and spring onion, garnish with black olives, Capers & roasted pepper and thus enjoy a very satisfying dish rich in flavor and nutritional value.
Try them!

work: 10′

time: 1h:00′

very easy:

Cold Bean Salad: Piyaz

Tasty summer dish as a main but also accompanying tsipouro meze. Garnished with chopped onion, parsley, oil and lemon and sprinkled with freshly ground pepper, sumac & chili peppers for color and flavor and all together for health and vitamins! Whether you say it bean salad or Turkish piyaz, is one of the most classic dishes with beans after the bean soup.
All beans contain high amounts of protein and fiber. An amazing combination for the protection of the digestive system and moving the food through the intestines. Fiber helps to better digest food and help ensure that the waste products to be eliminated. It is known for their irreplaceable effects in the digestive tract, while protein helps the body to maintain optimal health and build healthy muscle mass.
Try them!

work: 15′

time: 45′

easy:

Yellow Split Pea with Fennel

The delicious fava comes from the Split peas. They are an agricultural or culinary preparation consisting of the dried, peeled and split seeds of Pisum sativum but quite sidelined compared with other legumes of Greek Kitchen.
In a proverbial expressions find and this relative to beans: When something suspicious happens in a case, we say that "fava has a pit". This one does not, except in the habit of adding a little olive oil in the center by opening a small puddle.
You boil it plain with a little onion and aromatic fennel and serve mashed, lukewarm or cold, garnished with olives, dry onion and sprinkled with chopped dill. Combined with tasty onion pies.
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work: 10′

time: 40′

very easy:

Chickpea Stew with Oven-Dried Tomatoes

Chickpea with a tomato sauce, delicious chickpeas, low cost chickpeas as daily cooking solution.
The roasted, dried tomatoes in the oven add to this different chickpea stew an amazing depth of flavor. Even if the chickpeas are not your beloved beans, I suggest you try them cooked this way. I bet you will be surprised and will definitely taste a delicious and hearty dish.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 1h:10′

easy:

Slow Cooker Gigantes Beans

Slow cooking is an ideal method of cooking and this is possible by a Slow Cooking machine. Beyond any positive elements, such as energy savings, convenience for a delicious meal, etc., we have more personal time free to utilize in wherever else we want.
Put all the ingredients of the food in the pot and forget it for 6-8 hours depending on the temperature you choose. It is a convenient solution to put the food to be cooked all night (or all morning) and the next day we ready for serving hot food.
Cook my Slow Cooker Giant Beans, whom I had not previously soaked! I admit that the result was a pleasant and delicious surprise.
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work: 10′

time: 7h:00′

very easy:

Roasted Spicy Chickpeas

Tasty idea to see the pulses in another version of this roast & spicy legumes and especially grilled spicy chickpeas.
Oriental aromatic spices and spicy tastes so homemade snacks with the taste and texture of dried fruits, which will accompany our drinks, replacing salty peanuts etc. typically consumed many times absent-minded and baffled.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 10h:00′

very easy:

Black Giant Beans with Stewed Onions

Delicious giant beans with a stew of caramelized onions, carrot slices and sundried tomatoes in oil. All mixed with spices and herbs to increase the taste. Balanced, to have a finish of a perfect stew without meat.
Black giant beans, black to brown, but there are black to dark purple - blue. A particular variety of beans, delicious, full in protein, antioxidants, plant fiber, low fat and they care for the proper functioning of our heart. A super food!
Try them!

work: 45′

time: 12h:45′

easy:

Chickpea Salad with Roasted Tomatoes

A salad with chickpeas and delicious roasted tomatoes of our production. It's a salad that we like very much and consume. Most times it is in the role of a main dish, being full, delicious and hearty.
The fresh and roasted tomatoes and feta cheese give, other than essential nutrients, extra flavor. The basil perfumes it summerwise!
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work: 10′

time: 13h:00′

very easy:

Giant Beans with Celery

Dessert food. Delicious, hearty, economical and favorite for too many. Along with feta cheese and olives, warm loaf of bread and a glass of wine is a unique, tasty treat.
The combination of celery with giant beans is tasty and has proper nutritional value. The traditional cooking in a Dutch oven (Gastra in Greek) in the oven increases the flavor.
Those who have not seen this dish with a positive look, it is time to reconsider.
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 13h:30′

easy:

Baked Lima Beans with Tomatoes

Lima beans are among the oldest varieties of beans available, a native of the Andes. In our kitchen, however, they have an important role but also tasty! A very tasty legume every way you may cook it.
Lima beans are baked in the oven with much onion, peppers, tomatoes and more, they are a healthy and filling combination.
Try them!

work: 20′

time: 13h:00′

easy:

Warm Chickpea Salad

Warm Chickpea salad, hearty, healthy, whatever you need for intermediate weekly lunch and suitable for detoxification of our meat eating days.
Chickpeas, red sweet peppers, feta cheese and olives. Tastes known without surprises and in great combination.
Enjoy.

work: 30′

time: 12h:30′

easy:

Greek Giant Baked Beans

Baked giant beans.
Considered one of the tastiest dishes of traditional Greek cuisine, a dish that Greeks and visitors foreigners love. Simple yet so delicious and useful for our diet.
Ingredients such as the Greek giant beans, tomato, onion, and olive oil, well tempered, for a delicious result!

work: 00h:20′

time: 12h:20′

easy: 2/5

Red Lentil Soup

Lentils with orange, intense color, and unmatched flavor, taster than the simple lentils we all know.
Lentils came in my kitchen, from Xanthi, covering many miles on their way.
At first glance I was thrilled by their color, but I did not know their taste. I gained first hand experience, of this little known product, by cooking them!
You can find them is many health stores. In other cities around the world they may be easier to find in local markets.
Worth the try.

work: 00h:10′

time: 00h:30′

easy: 2/5

Greek Bean Soup

Delicious beans with onion, celery, carrots and olive oil. All tied together, compose and take off with a delicious result, a dried bean soup!
The ingredients are simple and we can find them easily. May be the olive oil is in some places hard to find, but the rest are common everywhere, I hope.

εργασία: 30′

χρόνος: 2h:00′

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Black-Eyed Beans's Salad

Salad with black-eyed beans and herbs. The addition of smoked salmon makes it even more delicious and gives it its characteristic flavor. Try a salad, that can easily replace the main dish on the table and is second to none in flavor, vitamins and fiber! It can accompany almost any dish you like. I prefer it plain, enjoying all the flavor it gives.

work: 0:30'

time: 1h:00'

easy: 2/10

Greek Giant Baked Beans

Baked Beans. Considered one of the tastiest dishes of Traditional Greek Cuisine. Simple yet so delicious and useful to our diet. It is lacking sodium but is a source of vegetable protein and soluble fiber, which help control cholesterol levels in the body. It also contains B vitamins, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. All this makes them one of the most important foods in our diet.

work: 0:30'+1h:30'

time: 1d:2h:00'

easy: 4/10

Lentil Soup

Lentils! Enjoy a traditional Greek dish for the cold days of the winter.
Lentils are among the first plants that the man (and woman:) began to systematically cultivate and one of the more important legumes in our diet.
There are several varieties with different size and color of seeds, such as blonde, green and brown.
The lentils are cultivated since ancient times (circa 2,000 BC) and were known in ancient Egypt. Jews, Greeks and Romans cultivated and consumed them.
It is a legume with great nutritional value, rich in iron, phosphorus, carbohydrates, protein and B vitamins.

work: 0:20'

time: 1h:30'

easy: 4/10