Beans! Glorious beans!
This is an enthusiastic repeat recipe for Blue Cayenne. We originally featured the recipe back in May of 2024. Here is the link and the recipe: Turkish White Beans.
This recipe is from Yasmin Khan’s cookbook, Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories From Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. You can buy the book through your local bookstore or on Amazon here. By the way, the author recommends using dried beans for better texture and “the best olive oil you can afford” for flavor. I used Rancho Gordo’s Marcella beans and Antica (Los Alamitos Ca) high polyphenol olive oil. I love and recommend both products. Here is a link to the Rancho Gordo site Rancho Gordo Beans and here is a link to the Antica Olive Oil site Antica Olive Oils and Vinegars..
About the Ripe Figs Cookbook, it is an exploraton of the cuisines of the eastern Mediterranean and the impact of migration (past and present) on those areas and their cuisines. Of the book Yotam Ottolenghi wrote, ” Ripe Figs is a dazzling cookbook that celebrates an ever-diversifying region and imagines a world without borders.”
