Delicious and healthy Fasulye Piyazi ,Turkish Bean Salad with Vegetables and olives and served with boiled eggs.
Mediterranean cuisines as it uses mild spices and oils like olive oil, olives itself.
This Fasulye Piyazi, Turkish bean salad with vegetables you can make with ripe olives
You need following ingredients to make this Fasulye Piyazi.
White kidney beans,
Red onions,
black olives,
sumac
zaatar
olive oil,
salt
boiled eggs
flat leaf parsley.
What is Fasulye Piyazi?
Fasulye Piyazi is a beans salad made with vegetables and olives and dressing to go with made from sumac-cayenne-cumin- chili dressing. Yes sumac, cayenne, cumin and hot chili pepper are common spices used in Turkish cuisine.
How to make Fasulye Piyazi?
You can use canned beans or cooked dried beans to make this salad. If you are using dried beans then soak white kidney beans overnight, and the next morning
I cooked them in pressure cook for about 20 minutes (that is easiest way of cooking beans).
Then added onion, tomato, parsley and sliced black ripe olives.
While beans were cooking I made the dressing. Half an hour before you are ready to serve, toss the dressing into beans, vegetables and olives.
Arrange on a serving plate and garnish with the boiled halved eggs and some more black olives. Serve immediately or refrigerate until you are ready.
Health benefits of eating this salad
White kidney beans are rich in fiber so it reduces blood sugar; reduce cholesterol levels as it is rich in foliate.
Black ripe olives are as good as they taste, and contain vitamin E, iron, vitamin A, and fiber.
Traditionally this salad is served along with Turkish style meatballs and pickled cucumber and peppers.
You can make this salad as a great alternative for lunch, served with some nice crusty bread or in can be a part of a meze spread.
If you ask me the taste, I would say tangy lemony sumac perfectly blend with spicy chili and earthy, nutty, spicy cumin dressing matched with subtle white kidney beans. Veggies like onion, tomato and black olives played perfect counterpart in this salad.
For Other Turkish recipes
Fasulye Piyazi – Turkish bean salad with vegetables and olives
Ingredients
- ¾ cup dried White kidney beans/cannelloni beans
- ¼ red onion thinly sliced
- 2 medium tomatoes roughly chopped
- ¼ cup California ripe olives sliced
- 1 hard boiled egg quartered
- A handful of flat leaf Italian parsley, chopped
- ½ teaspoon salt or to taste
For Sumac Cayenne-chili-dressing
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon ground sumac
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon cumin powder
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Soak dried white kidney beans overnight
- and next morning pressure cooks them for about 20 minutes or 2 whistles. Drain the water using a colander
- While beans cooking make the dressing, in a bowl add sumac, cayenne, chili, cumin powder
- and add lemon juice and mix well
- then mix in olive oil while whisking well
- . Add the onion, chopped tomatoes, half of the olives, parsley into the bowl.
- Then add cooked beans and pour dressing over this mixture.
- Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and combine well. Arrange on a serving plate and garnish with the eggs and remaining olives.
Nutrition
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Reeni says
Healthy, delicious and beautiful too! I am loving the spiced up dressing you made! Bet that would be good on lots of things.
Suja Manoj says
Healthy yummy salad
traditionallymodernfood says
Healthy and filling salad.. Looks new to me
Anu-My Ginger Garlic Kitchen says
Bean salad looks so refreshing and delicious, Swathi!
tigerfish says
Very healthy bean and vegetables salad.
farin ahmed says
Healthy and delicious salad..yummmm
Hadia says
I love the flavor of sumac and cumin in your salad, Swathi! It sounds so good! Pinning!
Mullai Madavan says
Fresh salad is always so comforting.. and this version of yours looks so refreshing! Good one Swathi!
Mayuri Patel says
refreshing salad. I love it.
Indu Srinivasan says
healthy awesome salad.
beena says
Healthy and tasty salad
Gloria says
healthy and delicious salad ..looks so good
Subha says
Delicious and fresh salad..Will try this..
Nalini Somayaji says
Nice and perfect healthy piyazi turkish bean salad..and thanks for providing chance for entering the contest by
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Thank you once again Swathi ....love to have a bowl of this salad....