Green Beans in Tomato Sauce

Name: Green Beans in Tomato Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 3¾ cups (900 ml)
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: ⅓ cup (80 mL) EVOO Olive Oil; 1 medium onion (~150 g), finely chopped Onion; 8–12 large garlic cloves, unpeeled Garlic; 1 lb 4 oz (500 g) green beans, cut Green Bean; ½ tsp (3 g) Salt; 5 medium ripe tomatoes (~625 g) peeled/chopped or 2 (14-oz/400-g) cans drained Tomato

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Anissa Helou recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Anissa Helou.

GREAT ON · STOVE→JAR; SOFTEN ONION+GARLIC THEN BEANS+TOMATOES

Great on Stove→jar; soften onion+garlic then beans+tomatoes. The same recipe pairs it with Lemon and Garlic Dressing, the dressing.

A quick pan finish for steak and poultry.

On the jar

GREEN BEANS

Method: stove
Yield: about 3¾ cups
Ingredients: 6

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Olive Oil 80 ml

Ingredients

Olive Oil⅓ cup (80 mL) EVOO
Onion1 medium onion (~150 g), finely chopped
Garlic8–12 large garlic cloves, unpeeled
Green Bean1 lb 4 oz (500 g) green beans, cut
Salt½ tsp (3 g)
Tomato5 medium ripe tomatoes (~625 g) peeled/chopped or 2 (14-oz/400-g) cans drained

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Anissa Helou — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. James Beard Book Award: International 2019.

Originally published as Green Beans in Tomato Sauce (Lübyeh bil-zeyt).

Adapted from a Anissa Helou recipe (Anissa Helou / National Post (Lebanon)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Anissa Helou / National Post (Lebanon) (published as “Green Beans in Tomato Sauce (Lübyeh bil-zeyt)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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