Green Bean Stew

Recipe by Phaeoacremonium Wikified by Drimble Wedge

This is something my mum used to make and I suspect it is something that everyone's mum/gran made at some point. I like this dish because it has no super-exotic ingredients and it can be made anywhere, at any time but it still tastes like a rainy evening in the Cape.

Traditional Cape cuisine of all kinds is heavily sheep-based and some of the world's finest lamb and mutton can be found locally. I tend to prefer mutton for stews and curries since it is much cheaper but also a lot more tasty than lamb.

This dish is similar to a Waterblommetjiebredie with the vegetable mentioned in the OP, and the green beans can be substituted with waterblommetjies or used 50/50, which is kind of nice. It is almost waterblommetjie season, but I decided to go for it with green beans instead.

So. Ingredients.

• Meat (still slightly frozen). Fattier chops or stewing meat would have been better, but I only had leg-chops. It is a bit of a waste of leg chops, but the stew was super-meaty and quite tasty so it was all good.
• Bag of beans. Could have been more, maybe half a kilo or so.
• Two onions, chopped.
• Two potatoes.
• Forgot to buy garlic, so had to borrow shitty pre-chopped from my sister.
• A bottle of white wine. Yes, white wine. Cheap, dry whites make the best bean stew as a rule.