Gooshteh Loobia

This is my favorite Iranian dish although they don't make it all over Iran. It's from my dad's hometown on the Iran/Iraq border and it's generally poor people food, but it's so good and so easy. Sorry I don't have exact measurements, but you really can't mess this one up.

You need:

3 skinless chicken drumsticks
1 yellow onion
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 tablespoons of pasta sauce or tomato sauce
1 package of great northern beans
salt


So you can do this in a crockpot the night before you want to eat it or in the morning and you can eat it at night.

Put a package of beans and the chicken and onion (cut in quarters) into the crockpot with the turmeric and salt (about 2 teaspoons-but make sure to taste it to make sure it's not too salty). Add water--about 2 or three inches above the food. Turn the crockpot on for about 6-8 hours on high and then a little bit before you eat it, put in the tomato or pasta sauce (for coloring and flavor).

We eat this with cinnamon (just put some cinnamon on top) and a little bit of yogurt on the side. You can serve with rice--I will post a recipe of fancy Iranian rice later, but you can just cook up some plain white basmati rice or any other rice. It's yummy.