Fasolada is a Greek and Cypriot soup of dry white beans, olive oil, and vegetables, sometimes called the "national food of the Greeks.The Greeks in the past cooking bean soup is two to three times a week. The basic ingredients of this soup is very cheap and nutritious.
It originated in ancient Greece, where a sort of stew of beans, vegetables, and grains, with no meat, was used as food and sacrifice to Greek God Apollo at the Pyanopsia festival
Fasolada is made by simmering beans with tomatoes and other vegetables such as carrots, onion, parsley, celery, and bay leaf. Lima beans are sometimes used instead of white beans.
Recipes vary considerably.
It is often enriched with olive oil either in the kitchen or on the table.
Unlike the Italian fagiolata, the Brazilian and Portuguese feijoada, Romanian fasole and the Spanish fabada, fasolada does not contain meat.
Fasolada, Greek traditional soup
