Lima Bean (Turkish)

Nye McClelland's Note:

Here's a Turkish recipe for lima or broad beans. Hope you like them.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

• 1 cup lima beans (canned or frozen, if frozen thaw) or 1 cup broad bean (canned or frozen, if frozen thaw)
• 5 -6 fresh green onions , chopped
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ½ lemon, juice of
• 1⁄8; teaspoon salt
• ¼ olive oil
• 2 teaspoons dill weed
• 1 diced tomato
• ½ cup water

Yogurt sauce

• 1 cup yogurt
• 1 -4 cloves chopped garlic (depending how much garlic you like)
• ½ teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Heat the oil at a medium to high heat.
2. Then add green onions and saute for a couple of minutes.
3. Add the rest of the ingredients to the pot, bring to a boil and simmer until beans are cooked.
4. Let cool.
5. You could eat them like that or add a yogurt-garlic sauce to it.
6. My family just loves this dish.
7. Serve with rice and you have a full meal!
8. --------Yogurt Sauce----------.
9. Combine all the ingredients into one bowl and mix well.
10. Scoop and serve.

Reviews

[Chef #1382567]

Awesome! Just like the dish I've had before (a girl I work with is from the Mid East). My husband even ate it!!! And didn't complain!

[eeee]

good recipe. i liked how the sweetness, tartness and garlic melded. very easy too.

[Gidget]

This recipe was very tasty and i will definately use it on my vegitarian friends. Next time I won't use as much sugar as it was a personally a little sweet.