Loubia – Tunisian White Bean Stew

🗓 16.10.26

Ingredients

  • 400 g dried white beans, soaked overnight and drained
  • 1 onion, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 bay leaf
  • 2 tablespoons tomato puree
  • 1 teaspoon harissa, more if you like it
  • 6 tablespoons OLYFO Gold Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Method

  1. Soften the onion and garlic in four tablespoons of the oil.
  2. Cook out the tomato puree and the harissa for two minutes – this is the step people skip and it is the one that matters.
  3. Add the beans and enough water to cover by two fingers. Simmer, lid on, for an hour or until the beans give way completely.
  4. Salt at the end, never at the start. Finish with the last two tablespoons of oil raw, off the heat.

Serve with bread. That is the whole point of the sauce.

Harissa paste from Poppa Peppa.

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