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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 don't know where to stop when we're doing our food shopping! It's broad bean (bakla) season at the moment so we just had to buy a bagful of them to do a …
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
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 green bean salad recipe came about... Roasted Green Bean Salad Recipe It's …
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. 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 sale. Not lots of them as yet...but enough to get us …
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, kuru …
Continue Reading about Fasulye Ezmesi – A Tasty Turkish White Bean Dip Recipe
Wow, it really doesn't seem so long since January when we posted our first Fethiye Friday photo and announced we would do this every Friday. At the time, the whole of 2012 was ahead of us and, as far as the blog was concerned, it felt like quite a commitment we were taking on...and here we are, …
Continue Reading about Fethiye Photo: Kayaköy November Harvest
Zeytinyağlı taze fasulye (fresh green beans in olive oil) was one of the first Turkish dishes I ever attempted - for the basic fact that we had bought a Turkish cookery book 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 and 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
It's that fantastic time of year again where barbunya starts to appear on Fethiye markets and it will be around for a few months to come; certainly until late September. The first time we came to Turkey on holiday, we saw these curious, colourful pods on the market and wondered what on earth they …
