Recipe: Tasty Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce)

Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce). Cooking this dish in a Turkish house means that rice comes with it. The smell from this dish gives happiness, peace and confidence. With this healthy and delicious dish, you can enrich your dinner menu.

It is a juicy meat dish that has plenty of white beans, chopped tomatoes, and sliced long green peppers in it. Kuru Fasulye / Turkish white beans with caramelised onions and a tomato sauce. A heart, warming vegetarian and vegan bean stew with a sweet undertone. You can cook Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce) using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce)

1. It's 2 cups of dried haricot bean (ideally Ispir Seker Fasulye but these aren’t readily available outside Turkey).
2. It's 2 of medium onions.
3. It's 3 tablespoons of good quality olive oil.
4. You need 1 of large clove of garlic.
5. It's 1/2 of red pepper (in Turkey 2 x long green sweet peppers but they are not readily available in the UK).
6. You need 200 g of lamb diced into 1cm cubes.
7. It's 1 cup of bean stock (saved from the par boiled beans).
8. It's 2 cups of 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 of sugar.
10. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
11. It's 1/2 tablespoon of tomato paste.
12. You need 1 tablespoon of passata or a grated tomato.

Kuru fasulye is a simple, cheap and cheerful dish much loved by both office workers and labours all through the country during all seasons of the year. Watch out chickpeas, Turkey's favorite bean dish is here! Kuru Fasulye, or Turkish White Beans! I must say, Turkey has many tasty bean dishes but this is my favorite one so far! "Kuru Fasulye" translates to "dry bean" but if you ask for Kuru Fasulye here, there is only one thing you're talking about, this specific white bean.

Turkish Kuru Fasulye (beans in tomato sauce) step by step

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..

Taze Fasulye - which is a dish of green beans stewed in a tomato sauce and served at room temperature is something I have to admit looks and sounds somewhat underwhelming. But given the chance, a surprising discovery awaits anyone who chooses to eat it for the first time. Kuru Fasulye (Turkish) or Fasolada (Greek) is a dish made of white dried beans with vegetables in a stew or yummy soup like, tomatoes sauce. This meal is so yummy and so easy to make by everyone. Kuru fasulye is one of the most famous Turkish dishes.