GREEN BEANS in fresh TOMATO & OLIVE OIL SAUCE (FASOLAKIA LADERA)

Oil-based dishes (Ladera) are at the heart of Greek cuisine, and this is one of the true classics! Lakis shows you how to cook this very simple recipe that can be a stand-alone main dish, or an accompaniment…it’s up to you! Follow the tips and prepare to be amazed! You can ring the changes with different vegetables and herbs, but the principal is the same. A super nutritious gluten-free dish, rich in mediterranean flavours…. and is perfect for vegetarians and vegans as well.
(P.S. We had ours with Biftekia sto Fourno! Link for that video: https://youtu.be/qApSAlM_Yuw )

[Music] the weather’s getting warmer much warmer and the beer tastes much much better so cheers everybody w okay step one you need some really soft ripe Tomatoes lovely red doesn’t matter how soft they are because you’re going to make a sauce bring your water to the boiling stage and put your tomatoes in that’s step one that’s only so that you can slip the skins off them isn’t exactly so turn the fire off put it Le on and leave them in for a minute 2 minutes doesn’t matter and get on with the onion nice big onion cut it finely chop it nice and finely smash your garlic and chocolate slice it chop it doesn’t really matter it’s a really rustic summer spring dish I just drained the tomatoes and I put them in in a dish where they cool down a little bit so I can handle them meanwhile this is getting hot nice and hot and the onion and the g is ready to go in we’re using a a white casserole because we don’t want water in it we’re going to use very little Li liquid we want the beans to stay to have an end result beans and tomato salsa with olive oil we don’t want any juices in it so white casserole it’s quite important so let’s put the oil in always plenty of oil we call them laa and La is olive oil is oil so it’s very important to use really good olive oil and to be generous with it don’t be stingy right I’m I’ve got medium high heat and I want to soften them I don’t want to color them so s them up and now I’m going to turn it little bit down and keep steing them for 2 or 3 minutes until they nice and tender turn the F right down and I’m going to put the lid on while the softening for this three or four minutes I’m going to deal with the tomatoes they’re nice and cool now so I can handle them nice and easy so you can skin them okay and I can skin them yeah and here they are the skin will come off now straight away cut over a plate so any juices coming out you need them you really need them you don’t want to waste any of these beautiful beautiful juices so here they are skin comes off give a little squeeze get every single drop of tomato out of it it’s precious it’s like a tomato [Laughter] Essence and another one get rid of this squeeze it again peel the skin easy cut the tomato in half cuz what we want to do now is squeeze the juice out cuz if I put them here on the chopping board and start like chopping them all my juices are going to go all over the place and I don’t want to lose them so squeeze them gently with your hands and get all this precious beautiful tomato juice out and then we can chop them see they release a lot of tomato a lot of juice that’s all flavor isn’t it they release a lot of juice yeah which is just flavor look at that just from four tomatoes look at those beautiful beautiful juices there oh feel like making a a bloody mary I thought he was going to say a pasta for a change oo look at that it must be lovely and soft now smells lovely yeah and it’s nice and soft so the beans are going to come in beautiful fresh beans I go from down the market from the farmers market in zinos okay stir them all around with the onions mix them together and oil the beans you can see the lovely and shiny now and now as you can see there is not much olive oil there so this is where we need a little bit more you can never put too much oil in this dish because a crusty bread will do the job afterwards season some nice sea salt and some pepper and stir again until they’re nicely all covered the seasonings mixed well and isn’t that yeah lovely such a simple dish and we’re going to have this with Bea be in the oven which is a recipe you can watch on our Channel It’s A really lovely recipe with my dad’s beef recipe and the beef with this and some potatoes in the oven is just Heaven There these lovely juices so basically we’re going to boil the beans in the tomato and that’s what makes them so so flavorsome so beautiful and get on with the flesh now chop the Tomato the whole kitchen smells of this beautiful tomato look at it look all this lovely flesh chopped nice and finely and season again season in every stage little bit of salt little bit of pepper in the pot mhm steer combine all the ingredients together now the flavors beautiful parsley and some Basel from the pot going to chop them chop them up chop them finely because you don’t want to find big lumps of baselin and parsley which I don’t mind at all some people do plus you need to distribute the flavors evenly don’t you yeah it’s not about getting a mouthful of herb the herb goes in the sauce that’s exactly that so we’re going to cook the herbs together with the tomatoes and the beans and then at the end of cooking if you feel like you need some more herb in it then chop some more fresh and spread it on top when you turn the fire off give it the extra flavor if you think you need it again a little steer okay now we’re going to put the lid on and cook on low medium nice and gently until the beans are tender make sure they’re all underneath the liquid as you can see yep except except one gain cuz what we’re trying to avoid is adding any water oh lovely smells amazing but there still a lot of juices there hopefully we not we didn’t cook them too much time to check one it’s got a little bit toasty now 2 or 3 minutes which going to be perfect turn the fire up a little bit and now is the right time also to check the seasoning now I tasted I think it needs couple more bits of rock salt lovely sea salt and a bit of pepper so now if you continue the boil with the lid off that will reduce down won’t it and you’ll just be left with the yeah exactly that turn an oil yeah we don’t want the lead on anymore the lead did the job they steamed up and beautifully there and cooked and we’re very very nearly there and then you can decide if you need some extra herbs taste it and if you feel like more Herby you know give more bzel be you know do it however you like it here we are fantastic this is what’re looking for see nice thick tomato and oil no liquid we didn’t use any water at all cuz the tomatoes our Tomatoes lovely just beautiful so this is ready fire off let it cool down and enjoy it with a crusty bread and a beef Tei and this is my little I like I like a bit of herb I had a couple of leaves of Basil a little bit parsley so that can go in as well right the end it’s a splash of color splash of color bit of freshness love our herbs so this is it guys thank you so much for watching us do the faka this is f fres in Greek is oily beans in a fresh tomato salsa and thanks again for being with us see you in the next video Cheerio guys