Flat Beans with Lamb

Name: Flat Beans with Lamb
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American

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"Tender and juicy lamb with sweet and tasty flat beans, in a luscious tomato sauce."

-- @kaliorexi

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Prep time: 10mins

Cook time: 2hrs 30mins

Serves or Makes: 6

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Step 1
Wash the flat beans. Top and tail the ends. Cut the beans in half widthways and for the wider beans, lengthways as well. Set aside.
Step 2
Wash the lamb and pat it dry. Trim off the excess fat. Chop the lamb into pieces of roughly 6cm thickness and set aside.

Step 1
Heat the olive oil in a large (approximately 5 litre) pot over a high flame. Add the lamb pieces and sear them on both sides. Add the onions and garlic and fry them until they soften and brown a little. Gently stir the ingredients to prevent them from sticking to the pot.
Step 2
Add the remaining ingredients to the pot in the following order, gently mixing with each addition: flat beans, salt, pepper, dried chillies, tomato paste, tomato puree, parsley and enough water to totally immerse the ingredients in the pot.
Step 3
Keep the pot on a high flame until the fluids come to a gentle boil. Then reduce the heat to a low flame, place the lid over the pot either slightly ajar or with the vent hole open and gently cook for 1½ – 2 hours. After the first hour of cooking, check the fluid level in the pot. If the fluid level is low, add more boiled water to allow the dish to cook a little longer. After 1½ – 2 hours of cooking, all of the fluid within the pot should have cooked off, the meat should fall apart easily and the beans should be soft. If the ingredients have cooked through but there is excess fluid, turn up the flame, remove the lid from the pot and continue to cook until the fluids have completely reduced.

Step 1
Flat beans with lamb are best served warm, with feta cheese and crusty bread to soak up the delicious sauce.