Lima Bean (Turkish)

Submitted by Nye McClelland

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

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 2-4

ingredients

• 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
• 1⁄2 lemon, juice of
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 olive oil
• 2 teaspoons dill weed
• 1 diced tomato
• 1⁄2 cup water

• Yogurt sauce

• 1 cup yogurt
• 1 -4 cloves chopped garlic (depending how much garlic you like)
• 1⁄2 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

[allisonrieck]

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!

 

[eeee8354]

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.