Fasolakia | Greek Food | #vanlifeeats

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Cooking a Greek staple today. Fasolakia. 😋

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Evening everybody hope everyone’s all right and enjoying this wonderful Sunshine that we’re having right now enjoy it while it lasts so I’m going to be making a bit of a Greek meal tonight and I thought I’d bring you along and show you in case you want to try it so

You will need a packet of green beans some potatoes some onion chopped onion I also put Garlic in but traditionally they don’t I like garlic so uh salt black pepper parsley tin Tomatoes fresh is better if you’ve got fresh but I don’t have any it and some meat of your choice whether it

Be pork chicken beef whatever but it’s generally use pork or chicken um what you’re going to do and olive oil sorry uh this is olive oil that I brought back from Cyprus I’m still using it it’s going to get a lot use today though on

This so we want a good dollop of olive oil in your pan and get that on to heat and we’re going to do the potatoes and the meat in there you uh olive oil get nice and hot before you put your potatoes in so they

Don’t stick uh I just tend to dip it in and see it’s not quite ready so you’re just going to Brown the potatoes off looks ready it’s steaming potatoes going In we’re going to Brown off a little bit and we’re going to add a little bit of salt while it’s cooking always salt as you go make sure you stir them to get them Brown on all sides cover the up Stick and then in this pan all I doing I’m going to put quite a lot of olive oil in there then we get that on to heat up then we’re going to add the onion sty add a little bit of salt and some pepper that going on a small ring it’s not heating

Up enough but never mind take the potatoes just starting to Brown now obviously for more people just double it your volume of stuff potatoes meat onions and stuff still probably eat this for two days that’s ni heat through now so you going to let your onions uh cook through and then we’ll

Add the tomatoes about ready now to add the tomatoes them in let them in and you just want this to to come up to a simmer don’t boil it mix them all in together add a little bit of parsley fresh parsley is better ni to bring the flavor of the tomatoes

Out while that’s doing these potatoes should be about ready already enough Anyway turn that down take these out set these aside St go by a few names uh but um do another one with ra and it’s uh it’s amazing it’s loaded with garlic though is that love that okra lamb and uh this this method so we’re going to put the meat in

Now temperature back up meat in put some salt on those So the tomatoes are ready now you can see that the tomatoes have spread out throughout all the onions and taking on the flavors you can turn that off meat ready just want to Brown it off pu it through and just take it off the heat a minute

While you uh AB the F up burn yourself so normally the meat would cover the whole of the bottom of the pan I don’t know if you can see what I’m doing see you see the meat would normally you don’t normally have enough meat to cover the bottom of the

Pan and then you would put the potatoes on top because the potatoes will mush when you go into them so you don’t want them right in the bottom put the potatoes inove the top and then you’re going to add tomato have the tomato sauce there and then we’re going to add the beans

Beans add a bit of salt and pepper because they salted some pepper and a little bit more parsley and then add the rest of your sauce yummy goodness we’re going to add water so it just comes to the top basically a little bit of water to one

Side just in case I’ve used a tomato tin so we can get all the goodness of the tomatoes out get it back on the heat cover it a little and bring it to the boil bring it to the boil and then uh and then take it down to a simmer and

You’re going to simmer it until the juice is about halfed and it goes like a bit thicker I’m going to add more parsley but towards the end check for seasoning and then it’ll be ready it’ll take this will probably take about an hour maybe 45 minutes but if you doing a

Bigger pan for big more people obviously times will vary but just keep checking it make sure it don’t go dry um and wait for the sauce to to thicken I don’t know what it’s called in English but it they have a word for it in Cyprus where gets to the right

Consistency you know that it’s ready um try it it’s yummy you can do it without meeting it then make it like this when like now they’re going to be fasting for 40 days or whatever it is till Easter uh they would still mate this but without

The meat you can see it’s simmering away nicely now so you don’t stare this just leave it as it is and let it cook slowly I’m going to put it on the smaller ring actually that Ring’s too big it’s not boiling boiling but it’s not sing how it

Should be so I’m going to put this on the smaller ring and then I’ll back to you when it’s ready so the F lag is ready now you have to be very careful taking it out because like I say the potatoes will be so soft they’ll just mush and break if you catch

Them some potatoes some of the green beans find the meat wherever the meat is cuz there weren’t much meat there’s a piece of meat the beans don’t forget the juice cuz the juice is just yums the next day it tastes even better and then you would serve that

With some uh greatek yogurt and some bread and some salad but I’m just having it as it is and enjoy so if you give it a go let me know what you Think