Lebanese Beef and Green Beans

Lebanese Beef and Green Beans is a tasty and easy dish. At its simplest, it is meat cooked with green beans in a seasoned tomato sauce. Serve with a side of rice or mashed potatoes for a healthy and well rounded meal!

This dish was brought to Israel by Jewish immigrants from Lebanon.

Growing up, my mom made American food during the week and Israeli food on Shabbos.

This is in large part due to a visit from my Israeli-Syrian grandmother when I was four.

During her trip she taught my mother a number of Israeli dishes which my family eats regularly to this day.

One of them is this Lebanese Beef and Green Beans recipe and another is Israeli roasted paprika potatoes.

I say she is Israeli-Syrian because her parents moved from Aleppo to Jerusalem before she was born.

My grandmother was the first generation in her family to be born in Israel.

Despite being raised in a Syrian household, her cooking was very Israeli.

In fact, I'm not sure if she knows how to make a single Syrian dish.

Even Simpler

My family, or at least my mom, keeps this recipe insanely simple.

She only uses meat, green beans, and chicken bullion powder.

In my book, anything else is optional.

You can feel free to use frozen green beans and canned tomatoes if you want to.

If you don’t have shoulder roast, you can use any meat you have on hand.

Just make sure you don’t overcook tender meat, making it tough, or under-cook tough meat, also leaving it tough.

What to serve it with

I like to serve meat with mashed potatoes. However, mashed potatoes isn't extremely common in Israel.

So, for an authentic meal, serve it with Israeli White Rice, Israeli Yellow Rice, or Israeli Red Rice.

Israeli Red Rice is much less common.

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