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Fasoliyyeh Bi Z-Zayt (Syrian Green Beans with Olive Oil)

Fasoliyyeh Bi Z-Zayt (Syrian Green Beans with Olive Oil)

Adapted from TheMealDB

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Prep: 1 min Cook: 10 min Servings: 4

Ingredients

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Method

  1. Place the green beans into a large pot, and drizzle with vegetable broth.
  2. Season with salt to taste, and put the lid on the pot.
  3. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until beans are cooked to your desired doneness.
  4. Syrians like it cooked until the green beans are turning brownish in color.
  5. The idea is not to water-sauté them, but to let them steam in the moisture released by the ice crystals.
  6. Add cilantro and garlic to the beans, and continue to cook just until the cilantro has started to wilt.
  7. Eat as a main course by scooping up with warm pita bread or serve as a side dish.

Nutrition per serving (estimated)

  • 89 cal
  • 4.1g protein
  • 0.7g fat
  • 16.6g carbs
  • 4.9g fiber
  • 0.4g sugar
  • 90mg sodium
About the ingredients
Green Beans
Vegetable is a generic culinary category for edible plant parts—leaves, stems, roots, tubers, bulbs, flowers and some botanical fruits—eaten savory. As whole plant foods they are canonical and nutrient-dense (fiber, vitamins, minerals). Derived forms differ: vegetable juice (fiber removed) and vegetable oil (refined fat) are noncanonical.
vegetable broth
A salt-free, all-purpose vegetable broth. Onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, kombu, parsley.
Salt NaCl
Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.
Garlic Allium sativum
Garlic itself is canonical, but extract denotes a concentrated/isolated derivative outside the whole-food canon. Marketed as natural/healthy supplement, hence mistaken-as-WFPB flag.
Cilantro Coriandrum sativum
Fresh leaves of coriander (Coriandrum sativum, Apiaceae), known as cilantro; a culinary herb used fresh. Whole leaf, no processing. Low calorie, provides vitamin K, A, C and antioxidants. WFPB-canonical whole herb.