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It's broad bean (bakla) season at the moment so we just had to buy a bagful of them to do a Turkish recipe for broad bean salad - iç bakla salatası. Springtime is synonymous with new growth and an abundance of produce on the local markets around Turkey. At the moment, we just feel like we …
Continue Reading about Broad Bean Salad With Orzo – The Colours Of Springtime On A Plate
This kuru fasulye recipe, Turkey's famous and much-loved white bean stew, is a wonderfully comforting and tasty dish. It never challenges - you know exactly what you're getting - but it always satisfies! The best recipes are not necessarily the most complicated recipes, are they? For us, …
Continue Reading about Etli Kuru Fasulye Recipe – Turkish White Bean Stew With Meat
Roasted green bean salad takes green beans to a whole new level! At the moment, the market stalls around Fethiye are just teeming with beans. Huge mounds of colourful barbunya pods contrasting against piles of super fresh green beans. We just can't not buy them. And that's how this …
Continue Reading about Roasted Green Bean Salad With White Cheese & Tomato – What’s Not To Love?
We love to eat seasonally and March in Fethiye is the beginning of the broad beans season. Which means it's also broad beans recipe season! On a visit to Çiftlik Perşembe Pazarı (Ciftlik Thursday Market) we noticed that the first young bakla (broad beans or fava beans) of the season were for …
Continue Reading about Sucuklu Bakla – A Turkish Take On A Popular Broad Beans Recipe
Beans - both dried and fresh - are a much-used ingredient in Turkish cuisine and the dishes they produce, like this white bean dip, are right up there amongst our favourites. When it comes to white beans (cannellini beans) Antalya style piyaz is a real regular in our house. And, of course, …
Continue Reading about Fasulye Ezmesi – A Tasty Turkish White Bean Dip Recipe
Zeytinyağlı taze fasulye (fresh green beans in olive oil) was one of the first Turkish dishes I ever attempted. It was a recipe from a Turkish cookery book which we bought whilst on holiday in Fethiye. An Easy Green Beans Recipe We got back to England, and, when I leafed through the book's …
Continue Reading about Turkish Green Beans In Olive Oil Recipe – Zeytinyağlı Taze Fasulye
Well, seeing as we did yesterday's blog post all about supporting your local markets in Turkey, we thought we'd better practise what we preach... Go to the Tuesday market in Fethiye this afternoon to stock up on our veggies. Apart from the staples, we were on the look out for some seasonal …
Continue Reading about Seasonal Food in Turkey – Confusion With Runner Beans
In Turkish cuisine there is a group of dishes known as zeytinyağlı yemekler (olive oil dishes). And, of these dishes, Barbunya Pilaki is definitely our favourite. We do love our okra in olive oil on occasion (well, it is extremely healthy) and we occasionally enjoy green beans in olive oil, …
Continue Reading about Turkish Barbunya Pilaki Recipe – Borlotti Beans In A Tomato & Olive Oil Stew
A story of how we came to love the famous Turkish white bean salad, piyaz. But this is not just the regular white bean salad you see all over Turkey. We have an obsession with a special regional version, you see. This is the story of the discovery of Antalya Usulü Piyaz (Antalya-Style White …
Continue Reading about Antalya Style Piyaz Recipe – Made With Love
