Gravche Tavche

Ingredients:

• 500g. white beans
• 1 onion
• 1 red paprika
• 100ml. cooking oil
• 2-3 pieces of red dry capsicum
• pepper, salt, plain flour, parsley and mint

Gravche-Tavche (Gravce Tavce) is a traditional Macedonian food that is prepared almost every week in every family. Here is preparation method:

Wash the beans and leave them to stay in water over night. After that, cook them until it starts boiling, drain the beans and put them in another pot of hot water. Then add 1/2 chopped onion and capsicum. Continue to cook it until the beans are soft but integral. If there is too much water left, drain the beans.

Fry the chopped onion (the other 1/2) and paprika with one spoon of plain flour in cooking oil and then add this to the beans. Put everything in a pottery saucepan and then pour some parsley, mint, pepper and salt on it. Put the saucepan in the oven and bake for a while. The beans should not be too dry. Serve warm.

Gravche Tavche