Navy Bean Salad

TURKISH VEGETARIAN COOKING

SALADS

NAVY BEAN SALAD (Piyaz)

1 cup navy beans
3 cups hot water
3 hard boiled eggs
1 large onion
1 large tomato
1 bell pepper
1/2 cup chopped parsley
1/2 cup chopped fresh dill (or 1 tsp dried dill weed)
1 tsp black pepper
8-10 black olives, to top

Soak the beans in 2 cups of cold water overnight. Wash and boil in two cups of water until they are quite soft (if needed add more water, beans must be very soft but not mushy). Drain and place in a salad bowl or a deep dish. Sprinkle salt on the onion cut in thin circles and wilt by squeezing them. Then wash and drain. Add the onions to the drained and cooled beans. Cut the tomato into thin wedges, cut the bell pepper into small pieces and mix with dill, parsley, onions and beans. Cut the hard boiled eggs into wedges and place them on top of the beans and onions sprinkle salt and pepper and then the oil and vinegar that has been whisked together in a separate small bowl. Add the olives last.

Serves 6.