Baked Beans - Turkish Style
By: Kathryn Aydogan
Published: Monday, February 14, 2011 - 5:07am

Ingredients




250 grams dried white beans, soaked overnight then cooked (you can use canned/tinned)
salt and pepper to taste
garlic to taste if desired
2 chopped onions (I don't always add as my younger children wont eat them)
3 tablespoons pepper or tomato paste
water
oil

Preparation

1 If you don't want to use oil (I try to use as little oil as possible) you don't have to fry the onion and garlic just add everything in together and cook. 2 Fry the onion and garlic until clear add the pepper paste, stir through and cook for another minute then add a glass or two of water and add to the cooked beans.    Add in the salt and pepper.  Taste.  Add enough water to cover the beans and about 2 centimetres more.  Cook for about 40 minutes until thick. 3 Chili - Sweet paprika, chili flakes, minced green sweet chilies.  Fry onion then add the sweet chilies and cook for another 3 minutes.  Add to bean mix then add in the paprika and chili flakes.

Sausage - Turkish Sucuk (you could use any spicy sausage) and fried onions.  Cook the sausage with the onions then add to the beans.

Meat - Using a meat stock and adding in about 150 grams of cubed beef or lamb.  Fry the meat with the onion then add to the beans.

Veggie - Grated carrots(1 cup added just after frying onions then add the tomatoes then fry for a couple of more minutes), fried onions, garlic and a couple of tomatoes.

Cheese - Crumbled fetta and sliced black olives (stirred through just before serving)

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About


I love Baked Beans and this Turkish dish can satisfy those cravings.  Whether you want to eat it plain just as Heinz intented or want to jazz it up.  This is the recipe you have been waiting for.
This is eaten is probably every Turkish home every week if not a couple of times per week and is also very popular at the local restaraunts.