Best Fasolada - Classic Greek Bean Soup

[@IvanValerioCortesi]

I love it and my German husband also love it .... thank you so much for the nice video

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

Hello Ivan!! Thank you very much for the comment... My husband loves it too...!! 😘 I prefer the lentil soup myself, the one called fakies... do try that one too!! Thank you again... and Essen gut!! (I thiink that is how the Germans say it) :)

[@taianna186]

Will have to try this looks very good!!

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

Hi Taianna... thank you for the comment. I do hope you try it and let me know what you think. It is my dad's and my hubby's favourite.

[@jimmydemetriou7847]

I love making this and eating it. When I learnt to cook this I developed a love for the raw onions and would eat a whole onion with it. Once I was married I avoided eating a whole onion...for obvious reasons, otherwise I would probably have been childless! My wife and my children like to eat this as well. Thanks for sharing the recipe. X

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

Hahaha… I am glad you liked the recipe. Mom and dad had an agreement… if one had onion or garlic, the other one had to have some too. I remember them doing this fondly, when I realized why they did it. I guess you will have to ask your wife and kids to have some onion, too… hehehe.. That will keep everyone happy and together. Thank you for the comment! :)

[@Pattycake1974]

A Greek friend of mine taught me how to make this. I love it! Making it today again actually.

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

Hi Patty! That's lovely.... did your friend prepare it pretty much the same way mom did?? Any variations? Kali orexi (bon appetit, in Greek)... hahaha

[@Pattycake1974]

@@MomsGreekKitchen He told me to keep the olive oil in it as well. His version has red pepper flakes and diced tomatoes instead of tomato paste. He said his mother baked it for half an hour after cooking it on the stove. I only cooked it on top of the stove.

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

@@Pattycake1974 oh? The idea of a little spice might be nice... and mom would make it with fresh tomato too, in the summertime when the tomatoes were nice and ripe and plentiful... tomato paste is just easier in winter... hahahaha... I'll try it with the pepper flakes next time... Thx for the info!! :)

[@Pattycake1974]

@@MomsGreekKitchen I will make it with fresh tomatoes this summer!

[@stevesel9254]

This recipe reminds me the most of my YiaYia's and moms. I never learned to make it from my YiaYia and every time I would ask my mom she would get all secretive about it. She's not one for being challenged in the kitchen lol

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

Hi Steve...!! Thx for the comment. Interesting that your mom wouldn't teach you a recipe?! My mom was never like that... but maybe you are right... your mom may not have had the confidence. I had an Egyptian friend who would not share her recipes... her reason was because she only had a few and if I learned her recipes, there would be no reason for me to visit. That is completely incorrect as I did not visit just to eat her food... but that was her reason... so I can understand her reasoning maybe. Thx again for the comment. Hopefully, this recipe is the same as your mom and yiayia's so you can make it yourself. Kali orexi!!

[@folkertreck9131]

I add white vinegar at the end in lentil soup. Have you heard of this?

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

HI there.. . yes, we add it as we are serving, not to the entire pot of soup. My dad, mother, and I love it with the vinegar, my brother and sister have it without. That little zing is wonderful in the fakies. However, it does NOT work with the version with the cumin. I have tried it and they clash badly for some reason. I do love both versions, however. Some of my family also loads the soup up with bites of bread, so that there really isn't much soup left, but tender bread soaked with/coated with the lentil soup... if you haven't tried that, it is also a wonderful way to eat this. It was always homemade plain white bread that we grew up on... Thank you for the comment!! Kali orexi!!

[@ststst981]

Oil is very important in a soup thag doesnt have meat in it. Meats usually deliver a lot of oil to the soup which adds so much flavor, without meat you really gotta use a lot of oil

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

I think you are right... the fat was needed for sure in this soup. Thx for the comment. :)

[@kathya1956]

How about vinegar?

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

Hi Kathy... thank you for the question. No, mom never used vinegar in fasolada, we only added vinegar to fakies, the lentil soup, and that was added by each person to their bowl, if they wished. I have never encountered vinegar in fasolada anywhere I have had it. It could be a regional thing... sorry I don't have any more info on that. Take care!! :)

[@kathya1956]

@@MomsGreekKitchen thanks!

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

@@kathya1956 you are very welcome!!

[@kathya1956]

@@MomsGreekKitchen Fasolada turned out great! The tip about salt is so true!

[@MomsGreekKitchen]

@@kathya1956 I am so glad you liked it!!! :)