When my children were young, we used to spend the summer holidays in our home in the mountain. One night, my sons felt they like to eat some beans from one of the street vendors. I took my little boys in the car and I asked them to keep an eye out for beans vendors. My eldest son saw one and I stopped the car with the vendor at the passenger’s side. I told my son to ask the man for some beans and, in his excitement, he mixed up the words while asking. Instead of saying, “3ammo 3andak foul?” (sir do you have beans?) he said “3ammak Foul” (your uncle is a bean!)

Since then, this has become a joke between us. My son is now a young man working in New York City, and while talking to him yesterday he told me “3ammak Foul”. I know that this is his way to tell me that he misses me. That’s why I decided to cook the rice with broad beans today.

Ingredients:

• 100 gs minced meat
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 cup of frozen broad beans (the green ones)
• 1 cup of rice
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil
• salt, seven spices

Preparation:

• Heat the oil in a pot and fry the onion
• When the onion start to get golden color, add the meat and fry it with the onion
• Season with a dash of salt and a 1/2 teaspoon seven spices
• Add the beans and mix it with meat and onion, then lower the heat and cover the pot for few minutes until the beans becomes tender
• In the same pot, put the rice with 2 cups of water, adjust the seasoning as desired, and let the rice cook on a low heat until it absorbs all the water
• Serve it with yogurt and green salad

ET VOILA..C’EST TOUT:)