- Baked Butter Beans with Vegetables, Monastic Recipe

Category: Mediterranean Diet, Monastic Recipes of Mount Athos.

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 1h 30min

Level: Easy

Ingredients:

• 500 gr. of butter beans
• 1 tea cup of ^eleon^ extra virgin olive oil  $
• 2 big round cut onions
• 4 carved cloves of garlic
• 100 gr. of chopped cabbage
• 2 round cut peppers
• ½ cup of chopped parsley
• ½ cup of chopped celery
• ½ cup of concentrated tomato juice
• 1 cube of vegetables diluted in ½ cup of hot water
• salt , pepper
• 4 round cut tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon of sugar

Preparation:

1. We boil and strain the butter beans for 30 minutes. 
2. We sauté the onion and the garlic in the oil until they are languished. 
3. We add the cabbage, the peppers, the parsley, the celery, the tomato juice, the vegetable juice, salt and pepper and finally , we boil them for 10 minutes. 
4. We put the butter beans in a  fireproof pan, we pour the vegetable juice on them and mix them well to spread them in the pan. 
5. Finally, we cover the food with the round cut tomatoes, we sprinkle them with some sugar, salt and pepper. 
6. We bake them in a preheated oven for about 30 minutes or until the butter beans are soft enough.

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