Bezelye Basti – GREEN PEA STEW

Ingredients

• 1 kilo green peas
• 1/2 soup spoon salt
• 2 onions
• 2 soup spoons butter
• 2 tomatoes
• 250 grams lamb cut into pieces
• 3 glasses water

Directions

Peel and wash the peas. Melt a spoonful of butter in a saucepan and add the peas. Add tomato pieces over the peas. Cook 20 minutes on a low heat.
In another saucepan

, cook the meat in butter until it is pink. Add the meat and its juice to the saucepan of peas, add water and cook an hour and a half on a low heat. (If they are “new” peas from early in the season, 1 glass of water and 1 hour cooking time is sufficient.)