The origin of green beans is still debated. Some consider her homeland America, some argue that she came to us from Ancient Egypt.

In any case, this product appeared on our tables a long time ago and has gained its popularity especially among those who closely monitor the quality of food.

Indeed, string beans have a lot useful qualities and properties. So, with an exceptionally low calorie content, string beans contain carotene, folic acid, vitamins of group B, vitamins C, E, A.

This year, yellow string beans ripened in my garden - lobby. These are long, up to 20-25 cm, pods, without a hair vein at their junction, with tender young grains.

Not for the first year I have been making stocks of such beans for the winter and I really love this dish - lobio!
Such delicious snack, beloved by the peoples of Transcaucasia, try to cook for the winter table. The recipe is not complicated, you will need a few ingredients, and everyone will be happy with the dish!

Here's how to make green bean lobio!

  • 3 kg lobby
  • 1 kg ripe tomatoes
  • 1 glass vegetable oil
  • 1 cup vinegar (diluted 20 times 70% essence)
  • 1 hot pepper pod (optional)
  • 1 head of garlic
  • salt, sugar to taste

Select bean pods without damage, shortly cut the ends, cut them into pieces of 4-5 cm, tomatoes into slices, and finely chop the garlic. Mix all the ingredients and boil for 40-45 minutes, from the moment of boiling, over low heat. Stir occasionally.

To cook lobio, use a pan with a non-stick bottom.

Then put into jars with a capacity of 0.5-0.75 liters and sterilize for 15 minutes. Roll up, turn the jars upside down and wrap until completely cool.
A wonderful snack will provide you with a hearty meal in the winter!
You can also cook lobio from green string beans. The main thing, when choosing it in trade, check the absence of a hair vein in the pods - just pinch off the tip and pull.
Bon appetit!

Green beans, or as they say - asparagus beans, excellent green vegetable widely used in cooking around the world. In Georgia, bean dishes are called lobio, which translates as beans. Moreover, it does not matter - dry beans in grains or green string beans, this is all lobio. They specify only - green, red, with meat, with vegetables, etc.

Young green beans cook very quickly. In addition, green beans are sold fresh frozen and are available all year round. True, to be honest, frozen green beans do not give that delicious decoction that is so valuable when cooking delicious dishes. We, for unknown reasons, green string beans are called "asparagus". But such green beans have nothing to do with asparagus.

Green beans are very tasty if stewed with vegetables, previously boiled in water.

Green bean stew with vegetables

Ingredients

  • 250 gr Green beans
  • 2 pcs sweet pepper
  • 2 pcs Onion
  • 4-6 cloves Garlic
  • 1 pc Carrot
  • 3-5 pcs Tomatoes
  • 1 bunch Herbs: basil, cilantro, parsley, dill
  • 0.5 cup Vegetable oil
  • to taste Spices: salt, black pepper, dry savory

Ingredients: green beans, onions, carrots, sweet peppers, tomatoes, garlic, green herbs, spices, vegetable oil

Breakfast recipe - stewed green beans

  1. Young green string beans are commonly referred to as "shouldered" beans. For cooking, string beans should be slightly prepared. Wash the bean blades and soak in cold water for 1 hour. With a sharp knife, cut off the ends of the pods and cut the shoulder blades into several pieces, as long as a match.
  2. Prepare bean shanks for cooking
    Boil 1 liter of water in a saucepan, add 0.5 tsp. sugar and boil the chopped green beans until tender. Usually 10 minutes is enough. Sugar is needed so that the beans do not lose their color so intensively during cooking.
    Transfer the boiled green beans to a bowl and leave for now. Boiled green beans
  3. Peel and dice the onion. Actually, the method of slicing the onion is not as important as its quantity. A lot of onions in a dish will only improve its taste. Peel and chop the onion
  4. Peel the carrots and cut into large pieces. Maybe even circles. Especially if the carrot is young and sweet. Peel and cut the carrot
  5. Tomatoes should be very ripe, the most red. Scald the tomatoes with boiling water and pour over with cold water. Cut the tomatoes in half crosswise. Peel the skin of the tomatoes and remove the seeds. If the tomatoes are not very large, they can no longer be cut, but left as is. When cooking, they will lose their shape anyway and turn into tomato pulp. Remove the skin and seeds from the tomatoes
  6. Bell pepper- any. Yellow, red, green. Remove seeds and stalks and cut into fairly large slices. Peel and cut sweet pepper
  7. Grind cilantro greens and mix with crushed garlic in a mortar. Mix cilantro with crushed garlic
  8. The rest of the greens - finely chopped into a separate bowl.
  9. Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan or saucepan. Fry chopped carrots and onions on it until soft. Salt and pepper. Fry the onion and carrot until soft.
  10. Add tomatoes and simmer covered for 10 minutes over medium heat. Tomatoes will let juice out a little and moisture will collect under the lid. Add tomato pulp
  11. Add cilantro with garlic to vegetables and continue to simmer for another 5 minutes. Add garlic and cilantro
  12. Next, add chopped sweet pepper. Add sweet pepper and simmer until tender.
  13. Simmer everything together for 10 minutes over low heat. It is necessary that the pepper is fully cooked and all the vegetables become soft.
  14. Add chopped greens. There must be a lot of it. By the way, it is worth adding a little acid to the dish - a teaspoon of pomegranate juice, lemon juice or even grape vinegar. But this is optional. Put all the chopped greens in the dish
  15. Add 0.5 tsp. dry savory. Not to be confused with thyme. They are different spices. Savory is generally spice No. 1 for many cuisines of the Caucasus, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans.
  16. Boiled green beans are added to the prepared vegetables at the very end of cooking, the addition field should be stewed for a maximum of 10 minutes on the smallest fire. Mix boiled beans with vegetables
  17. String beans stewed with vegetables is ready.
  18. Serve immediately, without waiting for the dish to cool down. Green beans stewed with vegetables

Many housewives are engaged in the conservation of vegetables for the winter. These are Korean-style salads, lecho, sauces, as well as a traditional Georgian dish called lobio. The main ingredient of this incredible delicious salad- string beans.

As mentioned earlier, lobio is traditional recipe salad from Georgian cuisine. It can be served not only as a side dish for main dishes, but also as an independent dish. And if you heat the green bean lobio, you get a delicious vegetable stew.

Required Ingredients:

  • 1 kg of bell pepper (it is better to take red varieties);
  • 3 large carrots;
  • 3 kg of medium-sized tomatoes (you can use sour tomatoes);
  • 100 ml vegetable oil (you can also take olive oil);
  • 50 g of table salt;
  • 355 gr of granulated sugar;
  • 65 ml of acetic acid.

Preparing red bean lobio:

Wash the beans thoroughly in cold water, then put them in a saucepan and boil in salted water until fully cooked (it should be soft). Gently peel the sweet pepper from the stalk, cut out the core with seeds. Cut it into thin strips or small cubes.

Peel the carrots thoroughly and grate. Cut the tomatoes in half, soak in boiling water for 3 minutes, and then grind in a mixer.

Put all the cooked vegetables in a large saucepan, add salt, sugar and oil to them. After that, put the bean lobio for the winter on medium heat. When the salad boils, it must be cooked for another half an hour over low heat.

15 minutes before full readiness, pour acetic acid into the salad. Sterilize the jars, put the salad in them and roll up. Cover the jars with a warm cloth and wait for them to cool to room temperature. Remove to a cold room.

Classic lobio recipe

IN classic recipe This salad includes red beans. Preparing blanks for the winter is quite simple. Many recipes include beans, but most often, this is not the main ingredient, unlike lobio. You can also put a lot of different greens in a Georgian snack. It can be mint, cilantro, hyssop, marjoram or oregano. From this, the taste of the snack will only get better.

Required Ingredients:

  • 2.5 kg of beans in pods;
  • 2 kg of tomatoes (it is desirable to take red or pink varieties);
  • 4 cloves of garlic;
  • 3 art. l. salt;
  • 3.5 st. l. granulated sugar;
  • 2 small onions;
  • A few sprigs of purple basil;
  • Black pepper (preferably ground)
  • Caraway;
  • Saffron;
  • Paprika.

How to cook lobio with vegetables:

Preserve the salad as follows: boil the beans until tender. Chop the onion and fry until it becomes golden brown. Put the tomatoes in a saucepan, cover with cold water and cook for 7 minutes. Then remove the skin from them and cut into large slices, put on the onion. Simmer another 15 minutes.

Peel the garlic and crush with a knife. Put it in tomatoes. Then add beans, sugar and salt. Simmer for half an hour. At the end of cooking, add finely chopped basil, pepper, paprika, saffron and cumin.

When the workpiece is ready, it can be laid out in jars and rolled up with a metal lid. Pickled vegetables are ideal as a side dish for meat.

How to cook lobio for the winter with broth

Lobio recipes come in various options, but if you add broth to it, then the taste will be very unusual. Canning French beans in a tomato for the winter with the addition of broth takes no more than one hour. How to prepare a recipe for preserving lobio for the winter?

Required Ingredients:

  • 3 kg of French beans;
  • 2 kg of ripe large tomatoes;
  • 250 butter (you can take lamb);
  • 3 large onions;
  • 2 tbsp. l. coarse salt;
  • A bunch of fresh dill;
  • Melissa sprig;
  • fresh cilantro;
  • Parsley;
  • 1 head of garlic;
  • 1 liter of broth;
  • Ground black pepper.

How to prepare green beans for the winter: freeze, pickle, ferment, make a canned salad.

String beans - very useful dietary product. You can read about its properties here: link.

It can be harvested for the winter in various ways, in order to supply the body with vitamins and minerals in the absence of fresh vegetables and fruits. Some blanks are complete delicious meals, while others allow you to cook soups with pods, make omelettes, salads and casseroles.

For those who read the article, it will become obvious: French beans are a product worthy of a festive table.

General rules for harvesting French beans for the winter

  1. Soft green beans are prepared in this way: washed thoroughly, cut off the ends, as they spoil the taste of the product, cut into sticks with approximately the same length (3-4 cm). Then boil them for 5 minutes.
  2. For blanks, you need to thoroughly wash with soda, sterilize with any convenient way glass jars 0.5 l. Also sterilize lids.
  3. If the blank itself involves sterilization, it is carried out for 20 minutes for half-liter jars. They are immersed in water at 0.75 heights. The water should boil very quietly. Lay a cloth or towel at the bottom of the pot.
Canned asparagus beans are a boost of vitamins in winter.

Harvesting for the winter: freezing green beans

Freezing is a way to prepare vegetables for the winter without losing them. useful properties. Properly frozen green beans, even in the middle of winter, will keep appearance and fresh taste.



Freezing can be done in two ways:

  1. Just fold the chopped pods into a large bag or small portions, then send them to the freezer
  2. Boil the chopped pods for 3 minutes in boiling water and only then freeze


IMPORTANT: Before freezing, string beans should be thoroughly dried so that they do not stick together in bags, and after defrosting they do not turn into porridge. To do this, it is laid out on a cut of natural fabric or paper towels, always in one layer.

VIDEO: How to freeze string beans?

Green beans in tomato for the winter - harvesting in jars: recipe

French beans in tomato sauce are:

  • complete snack
  • sauce for pasta and other side dishes
  • base for lobio

You will need:

  • 1 kg green beans
  • 1.5 kg tomatoes
  • 2 small carrots
  • 2 onions
  • 50 ml vegetable oil
  • 50 ml vinegar 9%
  • 1 st. a spoonful of salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • ground black pepper, herbs


  1. Washed tomatoes are blanched, peeled from them. Carefully cut out green cores from them.
  2. Blender to prepare tomato puree
  3. Bring the tomato puree to a boil, pour the bean pods into it. Under the lid, cook on the smallest fire.
  4. Washed and peeled onions and carrots are crushed and sautéed, then sent to the tomato
  5. Salt, sugar, pepper are also sent there.
  6. After about a quarter of an hour, greens and nine percent vinegar essence are also added.
  7. Distribute asparagus beans in tomato jars. The workpiece requires sterilization

Green beans for the winter in tomato sauce - harvesting in jars: recipe

French beans in tomato sauce with garlic and basil are spicy and pleasant. It pairs well with lean meats.

Prepare a dish for the winter from:

  • 1 kg green beans
  • 1.5 kg soft tomatoes
  • 1 head of garlic
  • 1 bulb
  • 1 bunch basil
  • 3 tsp salt
  • ground pepper


  1. French beans are prepared according to the rules described above.
    On a small amount of vegetable oil, finely chopped onion
  2. Blanched tomatoes are cut into slices, spread them to the onion, simmer under the lid
  3. Garlic is squeezed into a boiling tomato, prepared asparagus beans, salt, pepper are added
  4. When the workpiece boils for 15 minutes, add chopped basil
  5. Bean pods laid out in jars require sterilization

String beans for the winter in tomato paste

You can close French beans with tomato paste. Take 200 g of paste per 1 kg of pods.

VIDEO: Asparagus beans in tomato for the winter

String beans for the winter: recipes without sterilization

To avoid the need to sterilize the green bean billet, vinegar is added to it as a preservative.

RECIPE: Green beans with peppers and tomatoes

  • 1 kg green beans
  • 300 g tomatoes
  • 300 g sweet pepper
  • 50 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 st. a spoonful of vinegar
  • 2 tsp salt
  • ground black pepper


  • French beans are prepared according to the rules described above.
  • Peppers are washed, the core is cut out from it, cut into thin strips
  • Blanch the tomatoes and cut into slices
  • Fold vegetables in a thick-walled pan or cauldron, add vegetable oil, salt and pepper to them
  • The boiled workpiece languish for 40 minutes, at the end vinegar is added to it
  • Lay out a hot vegetable salad with asparagus beans in sterile jars and immediately roll up

RECIPE: French beans with carrots and tomatoes

  • 1 kg asparagus beans
  • 0.5 kg carrots
  • 0.5 kg tomatoes
  • 2 onions
  • 1 bunch basil
  • 100 ml vegetable oil
  • 80 ml table vinegar
  • 3 tsp salt
  • 2 teaspoons of sugar
  • 5 peppercorns
  • ground pepper


  1. French beans are prepared according to the rules described above.
  2. Peeled and washed carrots cut into cubes
  3. Peeled and washed onion cut into half rings
  4. Tomatoes blanched and cut into slices
  5. Basil is crushed
  6. Send vegetables to a saucepan, add vegetable oil to them, simmer for a quarter of an hour, not forgetting to stir
  7. Add green beans and basil to vegetables
  8. Salt, sweeten and pepper the workpiece
  9. I add vinegar table essence after 10 minutes
  10. Asparagus beans with vegetables, without waiting for cooling, are laid out in sterilized jars, twisted

VIDEO: Canned asparagus beans

Green bean turshi recipe for the winter

Armenians can call any pickle with the word tursha. But, usually, it's the idea of ​​pickled asparagus beans. For harvesting for the winter, young flat pods are taken. The peculiarity of turshi is that the beans in it should acquire a sour-sharp taste and become almost crispy.

  • 1 kg green beans
  • 0.5 kg sweet pepper
  • 0.5 kg carrots
  • 5 garlic cloves
  • 1 hot pepper
  • 1 st. a spoonful of salt
  1. Peeled asparagus beans with cut ends are not boiled, as in the recipes for the preparations above, but blanched for 1-1.5 minutes so that they do not lose their elasticity
  2. Peeled washed carrots are rubbed on a "Korean" grater
  3. Peppers cut out the stalks and middle, cut it into thin strips
  4. Hot pepper crushed
  5. Combine vegetables with beans, squeeze garlic on them
  6. Lightly sprinkle the vegetable mixture with salt so that it gives juice. Organize oppression for 3-4 hours
  7. Lay out an appetizer of asparagus beans in sterile jars
  8. Prepare a brine from 1 liter of water and 1 tbsp. spoons of salt. Bring it to a boil, then pour it into the vegetable mixture so that it covers it.
  9. The workpiece in banks must be sterilized

VIDEO: Tursha for the winter

Marinated green beans in Korean for the winter. Asparagus green bean salad for the winter: recipes

With "Korean" seasoning, you can close any vegetables, as well as green beans. The set of products for spicy harvesting includes:

  • 1 kg French beans
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 bulb
  • bay leaf (one for each jar)
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • seasoning for vegetables in Korean
  • 200 ml vegetable oil
  • 50 ml bite 9%


  1. Pretreat the asparagus beans and leave to cool
  2. Carrots are peeled and washed. You can cut it into thin half rings or strips, or grate it for “Korean” salads.
  3. Onions are peeled, washed, cut into half rings
  4. Mix beans, carrots and onions, squeeze garlic into this mixture
  5. From oil, vinegar, seasonings prepare a marinade, bring it to a boil
  6. Green bean salad is laid out in jars washed with soda or steam sterilized, bay leaves are added to each of them
  7. Pour the preparation with marinade
  8. Closed jars are kept in the room for 24 hours, after which they are taken out to a cool place

Green bean lecho for the winter: recipes

Lecho differs from other preparations with asparagus beans, peppers and tomatoes in that all the ingredients are “equal in rights”, each of them makes its own unique contribution to the flavor bouquet of the dish.

  • 2 kg tomatoes
  • 1 kg green beans
  • 1 kg sweet red or yellow pepper
  • 0.5 kg carrots (you can not put it at all)
  • 1 head of garlic
  • 1 pepper - light
  • 250 ml vegetable oil
  • 75 ml vinegar
  • 100 g sugar
  • 2 tbsp. spoons of salt


  1. Tomatoes are blanched, with the help of a meat grinder they are mashed
  2. Also, through a meat grinder, pepper and garlic are added to the tomato puree.
  3. Salt, pepper tomato puree, add vegetable oil to it
  4. Boil the tomato puree for 7 minutes, at this time they clean and wash the carrots, cut them finely or rub them on a grater
  5. Add carrots to the tomato and cook for another 10 minutes
  6. Cooking French beans. Cut into cubes, it is also added to the tomato and boiled for a quarter of an hour
  7. Cut the sweet, cored pepper into 6-8 slices, add it to the vegetables in the tomato and cook for another quarter of an hour
  8. 5 minutes before turning off the workpiece, add vinegar to it
  9. Close the salad for the winter in sterile jars

Lobio from green beans: a recipe for the winter

Classic Georgian lobio is made from crushed red beans and spices. But bluele pods can also be used.

  1. Wash, cut 1 kg of French beans. Boil it for a quarter of an hour. The broth is not poured out. You need to leave it about 0.5 liters
    5 large tomatoes blanched, peeled and diced
  2. Chop a bunch of washed green onions and lightly fry it. Do it in a cauldron
  3. Add beans and tomatoes to the onion, pour in the bean broth and simmer for 5-7 minutes under the lid
  4. Chop a bunch of parsley, cilantro and basil, add 5 cloves of garlic passed through a press
  5. Add greens with garlic to vegetables that continue to stew, salt and pepper to taste
  6. Immediately lay the workpiece in jars, sterilize and close them

VIDEO: Lobio from young green beans

Pickled green beans: recipes

  1. Fermented green beans in a barrel, bucket or pan
  2. Products are taken in the following ratio: for 1 kg of pods 1 liter of water and 50 g of salt
  3. Washed beans and with cut ends are placed in a container, they are well tamped
  4. Prepare a brine from cold water and salt, pour them with pods
  5. Cover the container with clean gauze or cloth
  6. Organize a good oppression
  7. Pods sour for 1-1.5 months: a week in warmth, the rest of the time in the cold
  8. You can add any greens to taste to pickled asparagus beans


VIDEO: Pickled string beans

Many housewives are engaged in the conservation of vegetables for the winter. These are Korean-style salads, lecho, sauces, as well as a traditional Georgian dish called lobio. The main ingredient of this incredibly tasty salad is green beans.

Recipe for lobio with bell pepper

As mentioned earlier, lobio is a traditional salad recipe from Georgian cuisine. It can be served not only as a side dish for main dishes, but also as an independent dish. And if you heat the green bean lobio, you get a delicious vegetable stew.

Required Ingredients:

  • Black Eyed Peas;
  • 1 kg of bell pepper (it is better to take red varieties);
  • 3 large carrots;
  • 3 kg of medium-sized tomatoes (you can use sour tomatoes);
  • 100 ml vegetable oil (you can also take olive oil);
  • 50 g of table salt;
  • 355 gr of granulated sugar;
  • 65 ml of acetic acid.

Preparing red bean lobio:

Wash the beans thoroughly in cold water, then put them in a saucepan and boil in salted water until fully cooked (it should be soft). Gently peel the sweet pepper from the stalk, cut out the core with seeds. Cut it into thin strips or small cubes.

Peel the carrots thoroughly and grate. Cut the tomatoes in half, soak in boiling water for 3 minutes, and then grind in a mixer.

Put all the cooked vegetables in a large saucepan, add salt, sugar and oil to them. After that, put the bean lobio for the winter on medium heat. When the salad boils, it must be cooked for another half an hour over low heat.

15 minutes before full readiness, pour acetic acid into the salad. Sterilize the jars, put the salad in them and roll up. Cover the jars with a warm cloth and wait for them to cool to room temperature. Remove to a cold room.

See also
Recipes for cherry tomatoes in their own juice for the winter you will lick your fingersRead

Classic lobio recipe

The classic recipe for this salad includes red beans. Preparing blanks for the winter is quite simple. Many recipes include beans, but most often, this is not the main ingredient, unlike lobio. You can also put a lot of different greens in a Georgian snack. It can be mint, cilantro, hyssop, marjoram or oregano. From this, the taste of the snack will only get better.

Required Ingredients:

  • 2.5 kg of beans in pods;
  • 2 kg of tomatoes (it is desirable to take red or pink varieties);
  • 4 cloves of garlic;
  • 3 art. l. salt;
  • 3.5 st. l. granulated sugar;
  • 2 small onions;
  • A few sprigs of purple basil;
  • Black pepper (preferably ground)
  • Caraway;
  • Saffron;
  • Paprika.

How to cook lobio with vegetables:

Preserve the salad as follows: boil the beans until tender. Chop the onion and fry until it becomes golden brown. Put the tomatoes in a saucepan, cover with cold water and cook for 7 minutes. Then remove the skin from them and cut into large slices, put on the onion. Simmer another 15 minutes.

Peel the garlic and crush with a knife. Put it in tomatoes. Then add beans, sugar and salt. Simmer for half an hour. At the end of cooking, add finely chopped basil, pepper, paprika, saffron and cumin.

When the workpiece is ready, it can be laid out in jars and rolled up with a metal lid. Pickled vegetables are ideal as a side dish for meat.

How to cook lobio for the winter with broth

Lobio recipes come in various versions, but if you add broth to it, the taste will be very unusual. Canning French beans in a tomato for the winter with the addition of broth takes no more than one hour. How to prepare a recipe for preserving lobio for the winter?

See also
A simple recipe for harvesting mother-in-law's tongue from cucumbers for the winterRead

Required Ingredients:

  • 3 kg of French beans;
  • 2 kg of ripe large tomatoes;
  • 250 butter (you can take lamb);
  • 3 large onions;
  • 2 tbsp. l. coarse salt;
  • A bunch of fresh dill;
  • Melissa sprig;
  • fresh cilantro;
  • Parsley;
  • 1 head of garlic;
  • 1 liter of broth;
  • Ground black pepper.

Method for preparing Georgian appetizers with tomatoes:

Peel the garlic and finely chop. Rinse beans under running water and boil, put in a large saucepan. Then add butter to it (it should be melted first), finely chopped onion, garlic and black pepper. Salt and add herbs.

Tomatoes cut into cubes. Put them in the beans, pour all the broth and simmer for half an hour. When the salad is ready, it can be laid out in jars. Wait until they cool down to room temperature. Then you can clean them in the basement.

When preparing snacks, you can use any spices and spices. Before use, the Georgian salad can be warmed up and poured with eggs.


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