Middle Eastern white beans with meat is a warming traditional dish, usually made during the winter. White beans with meat are cooked in tomato sauce and served with white rice. Easy, hearty and delicious!

Middle Eastern White Beans With Meat

In the Middle East, we call this Fasoolya bil lahmeh which literally translates beans with meat. It’s a traditional recipe that’s cooked in every household in the Middle East. I grew in Jordan having this dish at least once a month.

White beans (cannellini beans) are cooked along with beef chops or mutton cubes if making a stew to perfection and served with white rice. The soup with the beans and the meat are usually served in a separate bowl than the recipe, and then once you eat the dish using a spoon you add a spoonful of soup with beans and meat to the rice and eat it together.

This recipe is perfect for slow cookers, Instant Pots or any other pressure cookers, and to cook over the stovetop! 

White beans are considered superfoods, as they are rich with minerals, vitamins, proteins and fiber. Moreover, they are rich in antioxidants and therefore have anticancer properties. So we try to incorporate them as much as possible in our diet, and this dish goes in our rotation menu all the time.

For more great Middle Eastern recipes, check out my Middle Eastern category page.

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