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Kuru Fasulye (White Bean Stew)

Asia › Turkey
serves 6 1 hr 40 min Medium 3 versions
Gluten-free Dinner Stovetop One Pot
Kuru Fasulye tarifi
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Kuru Fasulye with Chestnuts

One of 3 versions of Kuru Fasulye (White Bean Stew). The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 6 people
  • 500 gram beans · dried
  • 250 gram chestnuts
  • 250 gram diced meat
  • 2 piece onion · medium
  • 2 piece tomato
  • 150 gram pepper
  • 1 tablespoon paste
  • 50 millilitre oil
  • 50 millilitre butter
  • 1 piece stock cube
  • 1 dessert spoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon chilli flakes

How to make it

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  1. Soak the white beans a few hours beforehand.
  2. Wash the soaked beans and boil them over a medium heat.
  3. Chop the onions.
  4. Score the chestnuts and leave them in lukewarm water for 15 minutes; the shells then come off easily.
    15 min
  5. Heat the butter in a pan and brown the meat.
  6. Keep browning until the meat has released its blood and taken its liquid back up.
  7. Add the onions and brown them well.
  8. Add the chestnuts and brown for about ten minutes.
  9. Add the paste and cook it through.
  10. Add water and bring it to the boil once.
  11. Skim off the foam that gathers on the surface.
  12. Add the boiled beans and bring it to the boil once more.
  13. Skim off the foam again.
  14. Near the end of cooking, add the stock cube, salt, black pepper and chilli flakes.
  15. Add the chopped tomato and pepper.
  16. Turn the heat down low and simmer briefly with the lid on.
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Kuru Fasulye (White Bean Stew) versions

They are all the same dish; the table below lists only the ingredients that set them apart. Ingredients common to every version (flour, salt, oil) are left out — they make no difference.

With sucuk base Puréed, with ham With chestnuts
Ingredient With sucuk Puréed, with ham With chestnuts
black pepper — ✓ ✓
butter ✓ — ✓
oil — ✓ ✓
onion ✓ — ✓
chestnuts — — ✓
diced meat — — ✓
garlic — ✓ —
ham — ✓ —
meat stock — ✓ —
oregano — ✓ —
parsley — ✓ —
paste — — ✓
pepper — — ✓
pepper paste ✓ — —
potato — ✓ —
rice ✓ — —
savory (tuzotu) ✓ — —
sesame seeds ✓ — —
stock cube — — ✓
sucuk (spiced sausage) ✓ — —
tomato — — ✓
tomato paste ✓ — —
water ✓ — —

With sucuk

serves 4 1 hr 10 min

White beans browned with turkey sucuk and served with rice cooked with sesame and savory.

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Puréed, with ham

serves 6 2 hr 30 min

White beans cooked in meat stock, puréed with potato and mixed with ham and green beans; a warm salad with the consistency of a thick mash.

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