Recipe: Delicious Healthy Filipino Green Bean "Stew"

Healthy Filipino Green Bean "Stew". Clean and add the chopped potatoes and green beans and top up with hot water, enough to cover the vegetables. This is a Filipino one-pot meal that is full of flavour. The coconut milk base is delicious combined with pork, prawns and veggies.

Place green beans and water in a medium saucepan. Arrange onions and green pepper in layers over beans. Sprinkle turmeric, and salt and pepper over vegetables, and pour tomato paste over everything. You can cook Healthy Filipino Green Bean "Stew" using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Healthy Filipino Green Bean "Stew"

1. It's 5 cup of long green beans, sliced diagonally.
2. Prepare 1 of plum tomato, roughly chunked.
3. You need 1 of medium onion, roughly diced.
4. It's 1 lb of lean ground beef.
5. You need 1 tbsp of olive oil.
6. Prepare 2 1/2 tbsp of fish sauce.
7. You need 1 1/2 cup of water.
8. Prepare 5 piece of Fresh ginger, chunked large (I like to use about 5-6 big chunks).
9. It's of salt and pepper.

Place green beans and water in a medium saucepan. Arrange onions and green pepper in layers over beans. Sprinkle turmeric, and salt and pepper over vegetables, and pour tomato paste over everything. Green bean stew, better known as Lubya, is wonderful and healthy Mediterranean dish that incorporates both protein and vegetables with a robust flavor.

Healthy Filipino Green Bean "Stew" instructions

1. In a pot, heat oil and sauté onion until just translucent.
2. Add ground beef, break up and brown. (About 5-8min) add salt and pepper..
3. Add the tomato, ginger and fish sauce and stir together for 3 min. (Play with the amount of ginger and fish sauce to your taste).
4. Add the green beans, stir. Then add the water..
5. Bring everything to boil, and cook until green beans are cooked but still a little crisp..
6. Eat alone as a stew or serve along side some steamed jasmine rice. 😆.
7. **you can eat the ginger, but it's mainly for flavor. Remove when serving. Also my hubby like to add a few dashes of fish sauce to his plate***.

This dish is very versatile and can be cooked with beef, lamb, chicken or you can omit the meat and make it a vegetarian dish. It is traditionally served with rice and is an all around crowd pleaser. A Filipino beef stew traditionally cooked with goat, but it's usually not available in most markets. You can get creative with this dish such as adding garbanzo beans, peas, and raisins. Serve hot over a bed of rice.