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Lokanta stew

A lokanta or 'tradesmen's restaurant' is where you can find delicious home-cooked style food in Turkey – such as this roasted vegetable stew with butterbeans.

A silver baking tray with black handles holds a bright vegetable stew, with long green beans and red capsicum pieces adding to the colour.  The edge of a stack of flatbreads can be seen alongside.
Lokanta stew. Credit: Nigel Slater's Middle East

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By Nigel Slater

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  • serves 4 people
  • preparation 10 minutes
  • cooking 1:30 hour
  • difficulty Easy level

Ingredients

  • 1 large onion, roughly chopped
  • 6 capsicum (peppers), assorted red and yellow, deseeded and quartered
  • 400 g (14 oz) tomatoes, assorted sizes and colours
  • 20 thyme sprigs
  • 120 ml (6 tbsp) olive oil
  • 2 400 g tins butter beans, drained
  • 2 tsp ground allspice
  • 350 g (12 oz) green beans
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C (180°C Fan/Gas 6).
  2. Transfer the onion and other vegetables to a roasting tin with the whole thyme sprigs and trickle over the olive oil. Roast the vegetables for 1 hour.
  3. Add the butter beans and ground allspice to the roasting tray and mix well, making sure that any dry parts are well coated in olive oil. Bake for a further 30 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, cut the stem ends off the green beans. Cook in a pan of boiling salted water for 4 minutes. Remove and refresh in a bowl of iced water.
  5. Fold the green beans into the roasted vegetables. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Cook’s Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.


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