🇹🇷 Turkish

Green Beans Musakka

Name: Green Beans Musakka
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 2, chopped Onion; 4 cloves, minced Garlic; 3 medium, cubed Potato; 300 ml Tomato Sauce; 2 tbsp Olive Oil; 2, thickly sliced Carrot; 400 g Green Beans; 750 ml Stock or Broth; 1 tsp Urfa Pepper Flakes

🇹🇷 Turkish

A slow-simmered turkish pot of green beans, root vegetables and rich broth — dinner that tastes like a warm kitchen on a cold day. 50 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 15 min Cook 35 min Serves 4 Medium

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Onion2, chopped
Garlic4 cloves, minced
Potato3 medium, cubed
Tomato Sauce300 ml
Olive Oil2 tbsp
Carrot2, thickly sliced
Green Beans400 g
Stock or Broth750 ml
Urfa Pepper Flakes1 tsp

Optional extras

Fresh Parsleyhandful, to finish

Instructions

1
Warm the Olive Oil in a heavy casserole and brown the green beans well on all sides — real colour means real flavour.
2
Lift the green beans out, soften the onion and garlic in the same pot, then add the urfa pepper flakes.
3
Return the green beans, tip in the potato and carrot, and pour over the stock.
4
Cover and let it murmur gently for 35-40 minutes until everything is spoon-tender and the broth has body.
5
Season with salt and cracked pepper, then shower with fresh parsley right before serving.

Chef's tip

For deeper flavour, toast the urfa pepper flakes in the oil before adding anything wet.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Green Beans with Olive Oil Recipe · on YouTube