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EASY GREEK POTATOES YACHNI



Easy Greek Potatoes Yachni image

The ingredients look long, but it's a classic store/cupboard sort of standby, cames from a favourite recipe book "tastes of the Aegean" and is an excellent one pot, whole meal, tasty potato dish... I make double and freeze half for an easy after work dinner for those days when you want something hearty but can't really be bothered, or vegetarian potluck dinners... Enjoy !

Provided by kiwidutch

Categories     One Dish Meal

Time 1h5m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 13

1/2 kg potato
1 medium onion
4 garlic cloves, crushed
1/2 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon tomato puree
3 ripe tomatoes or 400 g canned tomatoes
2 tablespoons fresh parsley or 2 tablespoons dried parsley
1 vegetable stock cube
1/2 lemon, juice of
salt and pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
2 bay leaves
2 cups water

Steps:

  • Chop the onion finely and sauté in the olive oil.
  • Cut the potatoes into slices, add them and the lemon juice to the onions and sauté for a few minutes.
  • Add half of the water and all the rest of the ingredients and simmer until the potatoes are done (adding the rest of the water if necessary) and until the sauce has reduced.
  • *Note* I notice that it depends on the brand of canned tomatoes, but if I use certain brands there is a lot of "juice" and so I omit the water from the recipe because otherwise the sauce becomes too thin.
  • Another *note* the original recipe calls for 1 1/12 cups of olive oil, but I cut it down to just half a cup to make things healthier.
  • Also, cooking time varies with variety of potato and size of your slices, I've given an estimate.
  • Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts : Calories 373.7, Fat 27.4, SaturatedFat 3.8, Sodium 19.3, Carbohydrate 30.7, Fiber 4.5, Sugar 5.9, Protein 3.9

YACHNI



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A Greek recipe, eaten during lenten season without meat. I add meat to it and it is just delicious!

Provided by berdina

Time 1h20m

Yield Serves 6

Number Of Ingredients 0

Steps:

  • Boil the potatoe parts and French beans for 10 minutes, without salt.
  • Bake the lamb cubes in the pan together with the onions during 5 a 10 minutes on high fire, stirring.
  • Add the potatoes and the beans to it.
  • Stir the onion soup base and the peeled tomatoes together with the garlic and poor over the mixture in the pan. Stir carefully. Add the cinnamon and some pepper. (You will not need much salt, the soup base is already salt)
  • Let simmer on very low fire for about 1,15 hours and serve covered with the chopped parsley.
  • Taste very good with Turkish bread and home made Tzatziki or homemade Aioli. Drink a cool rose wine with it.

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