Fasolakia—Greek String Beans*
1 large onion
A few cloves of garlic
Olive oil
1 can tomatoes (about 15 oz./400+ g.)
Three bunches of fresh green beans/string beans
Fresh parsley
Fresh dill
Fresh mint
Salt and pepper
Clean and cut the green beans about 4-5 cm long. Saute together chopped garlic and onion in olive oil until
soft. Add tomatoes and green beans, then
some parsley, dill, and mint, preferably fresh but dried will do if you cannot
find the fresh. Then add salt and pepper
to taste. Cook all of this together on
low heat about ˝ hour, until the beans are cooked and the flavours
are blended. Can be served alone or with any pasta (as with
macaroni, shown above).
*Recipe from Pauline Christou Snell