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Fasulye (Turkish) or Fasolada (Greek) is a dish made of white beans with vegetables in a stew or soup like, tomato sauce. This dish is delicious and so easy to make, packed full of vitamins and nutrients, this healthy dish is definitely a recipe to keep on hand for family dinners. Great recipe for Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce). This is a Turkish staple and the ultimate comfort food for long cold nights.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook turkish kuru fasulye (beans in tomato sauce) using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce):

1. Take 2 cups dried haricot bean (ideally Ispir Seker Fasulye but these aren’t readily available outside Turkey)
2. Make ready 2 medium onions
3. Prepare 3 tablespoons good quality olive oil
4. Make ready 1 large clove of garlic
5. Make ready 1/2 red pepper (in Turkey 2 x long green sweet peppers but they are not readily available in the UK)
6. Make ready 200 g lamb diced into 1cm cubes
7. Make ready 1 cup bean stock (saved from the par boiled beans)
8. Make ready 2 cups lamb/meat bone broth (this isn’t essential, most Turkish recipes use water but I find using meat stock gives a tastier sauce)
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp sugar
10. Get 1/2 tsp salt
11. Take 1/2 tablespoon tomato paste
12. Get 1 tablespoon passata or a grated tomato

Kuru Fasulye / Turkish white beans with caramelised onions and a tomato sauce. Turkish Bean Stew with Chicken, Onion, Peppers in Tomato Sauce - Tavuklu Kuru Fasulye. The flavours are very subtle and fresh brought out by the added lemon. Serve with Pilav (Turkish Rice) Variations on Etli Kuru Fasulye: Mix up the meats - swap the lamb for beef or chicken with the correspomding stock.

Instructions to make Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce):

1. Wash the dried beans and leave them overnight in water. Add a teaspoon of salt to this water.
2. Boil the beans until they are aldente. Cooking time here varies on bean variety and soaking time. Test at 30mins, 45mins and 1hour. Taste one and if it still has some bite to it then this is done. Make sure you remove the white foam as it cooks.
3. Sauté the meat, set aside when lightly browned. Add oil and slowly cook finely chopped onions. The onions need to become translucent and almost sticky- do not brown the onions.
4. Add the tomato purée and the passata/grated tomato to the onions and cook for a couple of minutes on low heat.
5. Add the sautéed meat back in.
6. Add in the sieved beans (keep some of the bean stock!) Add the finely chopped pepper, sugar, salt, bean and meat stock/water
7. Cover bring to the boil and simmer for 30 mins on the hob. cook on the hob or transfer to an ovenproof dish with a lid and cook at 170C for at least 1-2 hours. Keep testing your beans every 45 mins until they are soft and to your preferred taste. These beans need to be served ideally in a slightly liquid sauce so if it’s getting dry as it cooks add more liquid.

The flavours are very subtle and fresh brought out by the added lemon. Serve with Pilav (Turkish Rice) Variations on Etli Kuru Fasulye: Mix up the meats - swap the lamb for beef or chicken with the correspomding stock. Use other beans: butter beans are nice, navy beans, or cannellini beans. Bung the beans all together and go with chickpeas, which is an absolutely classic Turkish ingredient in these kinds of stews. If you're in Turkey, you're looking for tinned beans that read Haşlanmış Kuru Fasulye (pre cooked dried beans).

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