Middle Eastern Green Beans And Tomatoes

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup long grain rice, cooked according to package directions
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 lb green beans, trimmed and cut in half
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 4 large tomatoes, chopped or 28 ounces canned chopped tomatoes, drained
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 cup parsley (optional)

Recipe

• 1 begin cooking rice.
• 2 meanwhile, heat olive oil over medium heat and saute onions about 5 minutes.
• 3 add green beans and saute about 8-10 minutes.
• 4 add garlic and saute 1 minute.
• 5 add tomatoes, salt, pepper, allspice and sugar and bring to boil. at this point if you feel the mixture is too dry you can add up to 1/4 cup of water.
• 6 cover and cook 15-20 minutes.
• 7 serve over warm rice with parsley sprinkled on top if desired.