This is not my ordinary beef recipe nor vegetable recipe in tomato sauce. This is not just a bean recipe either, but this is just another Mediterranean dish that I learned through watching too much TV. Turkish people actually call this Kıymalı Nohut. I just had to personalize this recipe by substituting a specific spice with paprika and bay leaves then adding something green to it like celery.Anyway, I cooked this dish as requested. Just been procrastinating a lot that I did not pay attention right away until I noticed the pack of dried garbanzos, that we got from a local Pakistani shop like two months ago, already aging. So now, for the first time, I pushed myself in cooking it and posting my recipe here.
Ingredients:
- 2 cans of cooked garbanzos*
- 150 grams ground lean beef** (1 cup of sliced gluten for vegetarians)
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 6 medium tomatoes, crushed finely
- 3 stems of celery, sliced
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
- 2 pcs bay leaves
- 1 cup water
Here's how:
Sauté the onion in a pan until brown followed by ground beef, tomatoes, and celery. Add in the cooked garbanzos, water, tomato sauce, and bay leaves then season with salt, paprika, and black pepper. Continue cooking on medium heat for 10 minutes. When the sauce gets thick, remove from heat then serve with slices of bread.
* Also called chickpeas. If you don't have in cans available, just soak your dried ones overnight then boil it the next day.
** If your beef is not lean, you don't need oil to sauté it.
