Green beans stewed with vegetables in Portuguese

In Portugal, vegetables are very popular as a side dish, especially beans. It is boiled and fried, served as cold and hot snacks, added to a salad. It is known from history that during the siege by Napoleonic troops in 1807, the inhabitants of Lisbon escaped from hunger by growing vegetables, mainly beans and cabbage. Since those days, the love for vegetable dishes has remained.

Let's cook beans in Portuguese. If you have fresh bean pods, then they need to be cut and cut off completely unnecessary twigs. If you have frozen beans, then you don't need to do anything extra with it. Bow mode rings. Tomatoes need to be peeled. To do this, we make a cross-on-cross incision in the upper part of the tomato, put all the tomatoes in a bowl and pour boiling water over them, remove the skin and cut the tomatoes into cubes. Heat up the olive oil and fry all the vegetables, then add hot water, salt, pepper, simmer under the lid for about 30 minutes. Add flour diluted with a little water to the vegetables. Turn off the heat, season with vinegar and sprinkle with parsley. It turned out to be an excellent and quick side dish.