Ingredients
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1 lb baby lima beans, sorted,washed,soaked overnight
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4 cups chicken stock or 4 cups vegetable stock
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4 tablespoons olive oil
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2 cloves garlic, minced
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2 green bell peppers, seeded,deveined,chopped
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4 stalks celery, chopped
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3 red potatoes, finely chopped
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1/2 lb baby carrots, quartered lengthwise
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1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
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2 lbs Polish sausage, cut into 1 inch pieces
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1/4-1/2 cup potato flakes
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2 medium onions, chopped
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1/2 teaspoon crushed red chili pepper flakes
Instructions
- Pour stock into crock pot, set on high.
- Add beans.
- Heat a heavy frying pan over medium-high heat.
- Add Oil.
- Add Onions, Garlic, Bell Peppers, Celery, Red Potatoes, and Baby Carrots.
- Saute (Stir fry)'til Onions are translucent.
- Add crushed Red Chiles and Tomato paste, mix well.
- Add vegetables to crock pot.
- Reduce heat to low, cook 3 hours.
- Add Sausage, cook 3/4 hour.
- Add enough Potato Flakes to thicken as desired.
- Cook 15 minutes more.
- Serve with a Peasant Loaf or maybe Cornbread or Cornsticks.