Piyaz (White Bean & Onion Salad)

Name: Piyaz (White Bean & Onion Salad)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 400 g Cooked white beans (cannellini or haricot), drained; 1 Red onion, thinly sliced; 1 Tomato, diced; 1 tsp (5 ml) Sumac; 3 tbsp (45 ml) Olive oil; 2 tbsp (30 ml) Lemon juice; 1 tbsp (15 ml) Red wine vinegar; 0.5 tsp (2.5 ml) Salt; 1 Long green pepper, sliced (optional); 2 Eggs, hard-boiled, to serve (optional); Flat-leaf parsley

Soft white beans tossed with sumac-rubbed onion, tomato and parsley in a sharp olive-oil and lemon dressing — the cool bean salad that partners köfte and grills across Türkiye.

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Công thức của Turkish home kitchens · 🏺 Truyền thống · Household and neighbourhood cooking carried across Türkiye — no single author owns these dishes

Turkish · traditional dish — An ownerless traditional dish, so no individual cook is credited. The cited article documents piyaz as a Turkish salad of white beans with onion, sumac and an olive-oil dressing, and notes the tahini-and-egg Antalya version. Quantities and step wording here are this book's own.

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If cooking beans from dried, soak overnight, then simmer in fresh water 45–60 minutes until soft but still whole; drain and cool. (Tinned beans just need rinsing.)
Slice the red onion very thinly, put it in a bowl, sprinkle with the sumac and a pinch of salt, and rub it with your fingers.
Let the onion sit 10 minutes — the sumac and salt soften its raw bite and turn it fragrant.
💡 This step tames the onion so it perfumes the salad instead of overpowering it.
Put the drained beans in a serving bowl.
Add the sumac onions with any juices, then the diced tomato and green pepper.
In a small jar, shake together the olive oil, lemon juice, vinegar and salt.
Pour the dressing over and turn everything gently so the beans don't break.
Fold in most of the parsley and let it stand 10–15 minutes for the beans to soak up the dressing.
Scatter the rest of the parsley on top, add hard-boiled egg wedges if using, and serve at room temperature.

💡 Mẹo

Keep the beans whole — fold gently and they hold their shape and look their best.
In Antalya, piyaz is made with tahini and served with egg as a light meal in its own right.