page_title: Lobio
section_title: Preparation and ingredients
hierarchical_section_title: Lobio / Preparation and ingredients
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Лобио с гранатовым соком
context_page_description: Lobio is a traditional Georgian dish of various kinds of prepared beans, containing coriander, walnuts, garlic and onion. There are many varieties of lobio, both hot and cold.
context_section_description: While there are many ways of making lobio, the most common of which is a cold dish called lobio nigozit, typically made with dark red kidney beans which are cooked and then mashed with garlic, onions, walnuts, coriander, marigold petals, chili pepper and vinegar, and then allowed to marinate overnight. A hot version is usually made with white beans.
  In other hot varieties lobio may contain meat. Beans would be put in the pot with water and spices and allowed to sit overnight. The following day, the pot would be placed over a fire or, if available, in a small exposed oven, and the beans slowly cooked. At the appropriate stages, meat and other vegetables would be added to cook. The cooked lobio would then be served in the clay pot, along with a flat bread.
  Lobio, in its traditional format, progressed to become a standard recipe the ingredients of which varied depending on the area in which it was cooked.
caption: Lobio with pomegranate juice
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