Chicken and Haricot Bean Stew

Name: Chicken and Haricot Bean Stew
Yield: Serves 10–12
Ingredients: 2 onions, diced; 500 g baby marrows, peeled and halved; 500 g haricot beans; 600 g green beans, halved; 2 litres water; 2 tbsp chicken stock; 2 ml cinnamon; 5 ml cumin; 20 ml paprika; 10 ml turmeric; pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; 115 g tomato paste; 1.2 kg chicken breasts cut into strips; 125 ml sunflower oil

Preparation info

Serves
10–12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sababa

By Tal Smith

Published 2014

About

This is my personal recipe, but very much in the Libyan tradition of slow-cooking and one-pot meals. In winter we make many stews using different combinations of vegetables and this is an example of one of them.

Ingredients

2 onions, diced
125 ml sunflower oil
1.2 kg chicken

Stew
Main course
Winter
Gluten-free

Method

Soak the haricot beans overnight in three times the amount of water.

In a large shallow pot, fry the onions until soft and golden brown. Add the chicken strips and continue frying until the chicken is golden on the outside. Add the tomato paste and continue cooking for 2 minutes. Then add the salt, pepper, turmeric, paprika, cumin, cinnamon and stock. Lastly add the water and then the g