West & Central Asian Beans

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Cookbooks

• (VDME) Hartounian: Vegetarian Dishes from the Middle East
• (FFIW) Helou: Feast: Food of the Islamic World
• (CVC) Salloum: Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East and North Africa
• (LFO) Salloum: From the Lands of Figs and Olives
• (CLAG) Al-Hamad: Cardamom and Lime: Recipes from the Arabian Gulf
• (ZAAC) Mardam-Bey: Ziryab: Authentic Arab Cuisine

Arabian Peninsula

• (ANC) Salloum: The Arabian Nights Cookbook
• Hummus bi tamar hindi (CVC, 🔗1)
• Shawrabat 'adas (red lentils, lemon) (CLAG, ANC, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat 'adas bit tamar hindi (CVC, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat al-nikhi (CVC, ANC, 🔗1)
• Kabab an-nikhi (chickpea kebabs) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Al-nikhi (chickpeas) (CVC, ANC)
• Bajelah (fava beans) (ANC, 🔗1)
• Aeesh al dal (lentils with rice) (CVC, ANC, 🔗1)
• Barley and lentil soup (ANC)
• Makbous samak (brown lentils, rice, fish) (ANC, 🔗1)
• Falafel (ANC, 🔗1)
• Khabiss al-nakhi (FFIW, 🔗1)
• Shilla (mung beans, green lentils, basmati) (CLAG, 🔗1)
• Marag dal (red lentils, potatoes) (CLAG, 🔗1)
• Foul (whole fava) (CLAG, 🔗1, 🔗2)

Bahrain

breakfast dishes
• Luba (spiced baked beans)
• Shawrabat 'adas 'ma banadoora (lentil and tomato soup) (CVC, 🔗1)

Kuwait

• Al-momawash al-mutabaq (rice with mung beans) (CVC, ANC, 🔗1)
• Fool nabed (dry large fava) (ANC, 🔗1)
• Mumawash (mung beans, basmati) (CLAG, 🔗1)

Oman

• (TFO) Campbell: The Food of Oman
• Baqoura (ANC, 🔗1)
• Dango (chickpeas, lime) (TFO, 🔗1)
• Marak dal (red lentils) (TFO, 🔗1)

Saudi Arabia

• Fattat 'adas (lentils, bread) (ANC, 🔗1)
• Spinach and chickpeas with garlic and lemon (ANC)

Yemen

• Fool biz-zayt (fava, eggs) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Falaafil Yamanee (CVC, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat 'adas yamani (lentils, beef or lamb) (LFO, 🔗1)
• Yakhnat 'adas ma' bathinjan (lentils, eggplant, beef or lamb) (LFO)
• Qulaba (fava, tahini) (🔗1)

United Arab Emirates & Qatar

• Shawrabat al-nikhi (chickpeas, tomatoes) (ANC, 🔗1)
• Aysh wa lahm (rice, meat, chickpeas) (FFIW, 🔗1)
• Kabab hommus (chickpea flour) (FFIW, 🔗1)

Caucasus

• (TOP) Duguid: Taste of Persia
• (PTT) von Bremzen: Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook

Armenia

• (TCA) Uvezian: The Cuisine of Armenia
• ՊԱՍՈՒՑ ՏՈԼՄԱ Basuts dolma (cabbage rolls with beans, lentils, tart fruit) (TOP, 🔗1 🔗2)
• Vosbabour (lentil soup) (TCA x3, 🔗1)
• Garmir lupiayi aghtsan (kidney bean salad) (TCA)
• Germag lupiayi aghtsan / fassoulia piaz (white bean salad) (TCA, 🔗1)
• Missov vosh / Vosbov shokep (lamb and lentil stew) (TCA)
• Vosbov keufteh (lentil keufteh, red lentils) (TCA, 🔗1)
• Topig (stuffed chickpea and wheat balls) (TCA, 🔗1)
• Grape leaves with lentil and bulgur stuffing (TCA)
• Grape leaves with split pea and rice stuffing (TCA)
• Vosbov tzavari yeghintz / mujaddarah (bulghur pilaf with lentils) (TCA)
• Gigerov tzavari yeghintz (bulgur, liver, chickpeas) (TCA)
• Lupia plaki (white or lima beans) (PTT, 🔗1)
• Msosh (green lentils, dried fruit) (🔗1)

Lori

• Lobahashu (TOP, 🔗1)

Azerbaijan

• (FA) Kashkay: Flavours of Azerbaijan (in six volumes)
• Kufta Bozbash (meat, apricots, chickpeas) (FA, 🔗1)
• Dovga (yogurt soup, chickpeas) (FFIW, PTT, 🔗1)
• Lobia ezmesi (kidney bean paste) (FA)
• Badam ezmesi (kidney bean and almond paste) (FA)
• Lobiya shorbasy (kidney bean and dry plum soup) (FA)
• Lobia-chilo plov (rice, black-eyed peas) (🔗1)
• Tutmaash (noodle soup with mung or small pinkish-brown or white soybeans) (FA)
• Parcha bozbash (chickpea soup with lamb) (FA, 🔗1)
• Gyandzja pitisi (chickpeas, lamb, prunes) (FA)
• Chuyut-pakhla ash (rice, white beans, dill, pomegranate) (FA)

Georgia

• (TGF) Goldstein: The Georgian Feast
• (TG) Capalbo: Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus
• Lobio with pomegranate and onion (TOP, 🔗1)
• Lobios chorba (kidney bean soup) (TGF, 🔗1)
• Lobio (kidney bean salad) (TGF, PTT)
• Lobio tkemali (kidney beans with plum sauce) (TGF, PTT, 🔗1)
• Lobio mtsvanilit (herbed kidney beans) (TGF, 🔗1)
• Lobio (red bean soup with walnuts) (PTT, 🔗1)

Racha

• ლობიანი Lobiani/Khachapuri (kidney bean filled bread) (TGF, PTT, 🔗1)
• ლობიო Lobio (kidney or cranberry beans with herbs) (TG)

Imereti

• ლობიო Lobio (cranberry beans, walnuts, plum sauce) (TG)

Tbilisi

• ჩაშუშული მუხუდოთი Chashushuli (beef and chickpea stew) (TG)

Iraq

• (DGE) Nasrallah: Delights from the Garden of Eden
• Hasa al-hummus (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Hasa tamatat ma' hummus (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Aeesh albajelah (fava, dill, rice) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Hummus bi tahina (DGE, 🔗1)
• Bagilla mahrousa (pureed fresh fava) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Bagilla bil-khal (fresh fava with vinegar) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Lablabi (chickpeas) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Loubya maslouga (fresh black-eyed peas) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Baridat loubya (black-eyed peas, whole sumac) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Zalatat adas (lentil salad) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Shorbat adas (red lentil soup) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Shorbat mash (whole mung, rice) (DGE)
• Shorbat fasoulya yabsa (white bean soup) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Tafsheel (mixed beans, rice) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Falafel (fava, chickpeas) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Kuftat adas (red lentil patties) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Kuftat adas wa timman (red lentil and rice patties) (DGE)
• Abyadh wa baydh (boiled egg and black-eyed pea sandwich) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Bagilla khadra bil zeit (fresh fava) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Fasoulya yabsa bil zeit (white beans) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Margat bagilla khadra (fresh fava stew) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Margat qima (chickpeas, diced meat) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Chicken with rice and chickpea stuffing (LFO)
• Qimat al-loubya (red lentils, black-eyed peas in the pod) (DGE)
• Timman bagilla (fresh fava, rice) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Timman wa adas / Kichree (red lentils, rice) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Timman wa mash (whole mung, rice) (DGE)
• Ashouriyya (wheat, rice, white beans, chickpeas, almonds) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Kujari'l-burghul (brown lentils, bulgur) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Yakhni'l-adas (red lentils, brown lentils) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Tashreeb bagilla (whole dry fava, flatbread) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Tashreeb loubya (black-eyed peas, flatbread) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Kari'l loubya (black-eyed peas) (DGE, 🔗1)
• Dolma bil zeit (split chickpea and rice stuffed grape leaves) (DGE)
• Margat fasoulya yabsa (🔗1)
• Timman ahmar bi-znoud w-hummus (DGE, 🔗1)

Northern Iraq

• Shorbat burma al-mosiliyya (grains, mixed beans) (DGE, 🔗1)

Southern Iraq

• Margat turshana (dried apricots, lamb, split chickpeas) (DGE, 🔗1)

Levant

Palestine & Jordan

• Hummus habb (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Hummus bi taheena Filasteeniya (CVC, LFO)
• Hummus bi taheena ma' laban (chickpeas, beef) (LFO, 🔗1)
• Maazat hummus wa zaytoon (CVC, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat hummus wa fool (chickpea, fava) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat 'adas bi thoom w kammoon (lentil soup) (CVC)
• Shawrbat 'adas Filasteeniya (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Fool ma' tomatim (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Ragheef 'adas (lentil loaf) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Laban ma' hummus (CVC, LFO)
• Chickpea and olive appetizer (LFA, 🔗1)
• Dajaj ma' hummus (chicken with chickpeas) (LFO, 🔗1)
• Tomatoes stuffed with chickpeas (LFO, 🔗1)

Israel

(ZWIC) Solomonov: Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking
• Cholent (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3 🔗4)
• Hamen (🔗1)
• Hummus (🔗1)
• Hummus tehina (ZWIC, 🔗1)
• Hummus pitryot (mushrooms) (ZWIC)
• Hummus foul (ZWIC)
• Hummus masabacha (ZWIC, 🔗1)
• Chickpea brittle (ZWIC)
• Chicken soup with ghondi (chickpea flour and chicken meatballs) (ZWIC)
• Branzino with chickpea stew (fresh chickpeas) (ZWIC)
• Mujadara (ZWIC)
• Falafel (🔗1)

Syria & Lebanon

• (LC) Helou: Lebanese Cuisine
• (CLC) Al-Faqih: Classic Lebanese Cuisine
• Adas bi hamood (lentil soup, swiss chard, lemon) (CLC, 🔗1)
• Bamya wa hummus (okra, chickpea) (CVC)
• Bean pottage (kidney beans, rice) (LFO)
• Bulgur bi-dfeeneh (bulgur, chickpeas, lamb) (FFIW)
• Falafel (CVC, CLC, LFO)
• Fassolia bi zeyt (lima beans, cilantro) (CLC)
• Fassuliah bil lahmeh (lamb, white beans) (FFIW)
• Fattet ghanam (chickpeas, lamb) (FFIW)
• Fattat hummus (CVC, ZAAC)
• Fatyar 'adas (lentil pies) (CVC)
• Fatayer bi hoummos (chickpeas and beef triangles) (CLC)
• Fasoolya ma' futr (white beans, mushrooms) (CVC)
• Fasoolya ma' rizz (kidney beans, rice) (CVC)
• Fooliyya (fresh fava) (CVC, LFO)
• Foul moudammus (CLC)
• Fool ma' laban (CVC, LFO, ZAAC)
• Fool ma' rizz (rice, meat, fresh fava) (LFO)
• Harrak bi Isba'hu (lentil dumplings) (CVC)
• Hummus bi dibs rumman (pomegranate) (CVC, 🔗1)
• Hummus bi taheena (CVC, CLC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Hummus ma' loobya (chickpeas, green beans) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Kibbi arnabiyeh (kibbi in chickpea tahini sauce) (CLC)
• Kibbet haamid (lemon dumplings with chickpeas) (CVC)
• Kibbett hummus (chickpea and bulgur patties) (LFO)
• Makhlouta (mixed bean stew) (CLC)
• Mhallabiyyah bil-ful (green fava dessert) (ZAAC)
• Mihshee malfoof bi-zayt (cabbage roll with rice and chickpeas) (LFO)
• Mihshee waraq 'inab ma' 'adas (lentil stuffed grape leaves) (CVC, LFO)
• Moghrabbiyeh 'ala d'jaj (large grain couscous, chicken, chickpeas) (FFIW)
• Mujadarra (CLC, CVC, LFO)
• Munazalit bathinjan (eggplant and chickpea stew) (CVC, LFO)
• Ris basmati ma adas (Basmati, lentils) (CLC)
• Rishta (lentils and noodles) (CVC, LFO, CLC)
• Salatat 'adas (CVC, LFO)
• Salatat fool (CVC, LFO)
• Salata hoummos haab (chickpea salad) (CLC)
• Salatat hummus wa burghul (CVC)
• Shawrbat 'adas ahmar ma' rizz (CVC, LFO)
• Shawrbat 'adas halabiya (lentil soup) (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat 'adas ma' sabanakh (lentil and spinach soup) (CVC, LFO)
• Shawrbat 'adas ma' sha'reeya (lentil and noodle soup) (CVC, LFO)
• Shawrbat fasoulya (CVC, LFO, 🔗1)
• Shawrbat hummus wa batata (chickpea, potato) (CVC)
• Shorbah makhlutah (lentil, chickpea, bean soup) (FFIW)
• Salatat 'adas wa laban (CVC)
• Safeehat hummus (CVC)
• Tamatim mihshee bil-hummus (tomatoes stuffed with chickpeas) (CVC)
• Yakhnat 'adas (lentils, potatoes) (CVC, LFO)
• Yakhnat Fassoolya (beef, white beans) (LFO)

Turkey

• (TTC) Ilkin and Kaufman: The Turkish Cookbook: Regional Recipes and Stories
• (NHTC) Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook
• (DSA) Dale and Sivrioglu: Anatolia
• Humus (NHTC)
• Fava (pureed split dry fava) (NHTC, DSA)
• Etli kuru fasulye (white beans, lamb) (NHTC)
• Kiymali mercimek (lentils, lamb) (NHTC)
• Yalanci enginar dolmasi (fava beans, artichokes) (NHTC)
• Maş piyazi (mung, scallions) (NHTC)
• Aşure (white beans, chickpeas, dessert pudding) (DSA, FFIW)
• Pastirmali kuru fasulye (white beans, cured beef) (DSA)
• Mercimekli kofte (red lentil kofte) (FFIW)

Aegean

• Yeşil Mercimekli Pirinç Pilavı (rice, green lentils) (TTC)

Afyon

• Mercimekli afyon böreği (green lentil pies) (TTC)

Izmir

• Zeytinyağlı enginarlı iç bakla (artichokes, fresh fava) (TTC, DSA)
• Börülce çorbası (black-eyed peas, lamb, noodles) (TTC)

Muğla

• Börülce Teletoru (black-eyed peas) (TTC)
• Nohutlu bamya (okra, chickpeas) (TTC)

Central Anatolia

• Yeşil mercimekli erişte çorbası (green lentils, noodles, mint) (TTC)
• Nohutlu yahni (chickpea stew) (TTC)

Kayseri

• Güveçte pastırmalı kuru fasülye (white beans, cured beef) (TTC)

Sivas

• Fasulye çorbası (green beans, green lentils, bulgur) (TTC)

Eastern Anatolia

Erzincan

• Kesme çorba (chickpeas, noodles, meatballs) (TTC)

Southeast Anatolia

Gaziantep

• Maş çorbası (mung bean) (TTC)
• Alca çorba (wheat berries, chickpeas, green lentils) (TTC)
• Kabak doğrama (zucchini, chickpeas) (TTC)
• Pirpirim aşı (purslane, chickpeas, black-eyed peas, green lentils) (TTC, DSA)
• Yoğurtlu çağla aşı (fresh almonds, chickpeas in yogurt sauce) (FFIW)

Kilis

• Ekşili mercimek çorbası (red lentils, eggplant) (TTC)

Şanlıurfa

• Mustard greens with black-eyed peas and rice (Wolfert: Mediterranean Grains and Greens)
• Tarhana and red lentil soup (Wolfert: Mediterranean Grains and Greens)

Black Sea

• Zeytinyağlı barbunya (fresh cranberry beans, olive oil) (TTC, NHTC)

Artvin

• Fasulye çorbası (white beans, pasta, greens) (TTC)

Kastamonu

• Barbunyalı pilav (rice, cranberry or kidney beans) (TTC)

Rize

• Mısır unlu fasulye ezmesi (mashed lima beans, cornmeal) (TTC)

Tokat

• Bat (lentil and bulgur salad) (TTC)

Trabzon

• Balkabağı çorbası (pumpkin, greens, white beans) (TTC)
• Karalahana Yığması (greens, bulgur, cranberry beans) (TTC)

Marmara

Bursa

• Nobutlu mantı (chickpea dumplings) (TTC)

Istanbul

• Nohut çorbası (chickpea soup) (TTC)
• Osmanlı mercimek çorbası (lentil soup) (TTC)
• Kuzu etli nohutlu buğday çorbası (wheat, lamb, chickpea) (TTC)
• Löbye (giant lima, olive oil) (TTC)

Tekirdağ

• Mercimekli yaprak dolması (red lentil and bulgur stuffed grape leaves) (TTC)

Mediterranean

• Nohut köftesi (chickpea patties) (TTC)

Adana

• Kara çorba (wheat berries, chickpeas, cranberry beans, white beans, green lentils) (TTC)
• Şehriyeli bulgur pilavı (black-eyed peas, bulgur) (TTC)

Antalya

• Fasulye piyazı (white beans, tahini) (TTC, NHTC)
• Atsi (red lentil puree) (TTC)

Hatay

• Pazı çorbası (swiss chard stems, green lentils, red lentils) (TTC)
• Kırmızı mercimek çorbası (red lentil soup) (TTC)
• Şeyh mualla (eggplant, green lentils) (TTC)

Kahramanmaraş

• Maraş çorbası (wheat berries, chickpeas, red lentils) (TTC)

Mersin

• Ekşili Ispanak Başı (green lentils, spinach) (TTC)

Central Asia

Iran

• (CII) Batmanglij: Cooking in Iran
• (TOP) Duguid: Taste of Persia
• آش رشته Ash-e-reshteh (TOP)
• آبگوشت Abgusht (lamb, chickpeas) (TOP)
• Bâghâli polow (rice, fresh fava) (FFIW)
• Addas polow (lentils, rice) (FFIW)
• 'Aish shibint wi bajilla (rice, dill, fresh fava) (CLAG)

Southwestern Iran

• هواری-ا میگو-ا خشک با عدس havari-e maygu-e khoshk ba adas (lentils, rice, shrimp) (CII)

Isfahan

• Halim-e maush qomry-e esfahani (mung bean, kohlrabi) (CII)
• Khoresh-e ghermez-e nokodchi-e esfahani (chickpea flour meatballs) (CII)
• Kabab-e moshti-e esfahani (chickpeas, meat, carrot) (CII)
• Gusht-o lubia-o shivid polow-ye kashani (white beans, lamb, rice) (CII)
• Ash-e-abgoureh (mung, split peas) (TOP)

Sistan and Balochistan

• Dugh pa-ye sistani (goat, yogurt, split pea) (CII)

Bushehr

• Dal (red lentils) (CII)
• Sup-e ardeh (barley, tahini, chickpeas, lentils) (CII)
• Sup-e daryai-e bandari (chickpeas, fish) (CII)
• Maygu-e pofaki (prawns, chickpea flour tempura) (CII)

Hormozgan

• Pakurah (chickpea flour, wheat flour) (CII)

Yazd

• Osh-e shuly-e yazdi (spinach, beets, lentils) (CII)
• Qeymeh-ye yazdi (lamb, split peas, potato) (CII)

Fars

• Osh-e sabz-e shirazi (chickpeas, red beans, lentils, lamb, herbs) (CII)
• Kufteh-ye sabzi-e shirazi (chickpeas, lamb) (CII)

Western Iran

Hamadan

• Osh-e khoshkbar-e hamadani (dried fruit, noodles, lentils, red beans, chickpeas) (CII)
• Osh-e halim-o havij-e hamedani (carrot, bulgur, lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas) (CII)

Khuzestan

• Falafel-e abadani (chickpeas) (CII)

Arak

• Osh-e mast-e araki (split pea, bulgur, yogurt) (CII)
• Osh-e jow-e araki (chickpeas, pinto, lentils, barley) (CII)
• Dami-e mash-e araki (rice, mung, onions) (CII)

Eastern Iran

Khorasan

• Osh-e zershk-e khorasani (barberry, herbs, chickpeas, lentils) (CII)
• Osh-e jushvareh-ye sabzevari (spinach, dumplings, lentils) (CII)
• Osh-e shalqam-e khorasani (turnip, mung beans, herbs) (CII)
• Sholeh-ye mashhadi (lamb, mung, chickpeas, pinto, white beans) (CII)
• Qaboli polow-ye bojnurdi (black-eyed peas, chickpeas, lentils, squash, rice) (CII)

Kerman

• Osh-e gandom-e kermani (lamb, wheat berries, chickpeas, red beans) (CII)
• Boz qormeh-ye kermani (goat, chickpeas) (CII)

Northwestern Iran

Tabriz

• Osh-e dugh-e ardebili (yogurt, chickpeas) (CII)
• Kufteh tabrizi (yellow split peas, meatballs) (CII)

Gilan

• Haleem (lamb, chickpeas) (FFIW)
• Baghali ghatog (white bean, dill, eggs) (FFIW)

Northern Iran

• Osh-e kuhi (squash, lentils) (CII)
• Baqala qataq (duck egg, fresh fava) (CII)

Tehran

• Khoresh-e qormeh sabzi (kidney beans, herbs) (CII, FFIW)

Qazvin

• Marju khoresh-e qazvini (lentil, lamb, prune) (CII)

Kurdistan

• (TOP) Duguid: Taste of Persia
• Palpina (purslane soup, lentils) (TOP)

Iraqi Kurdistan

• Shley fasouleh (white beans) (TOP)

Iranian Kurdistan

• Tarkhineh osh (white beans, chickpeas) (CII)
• Khoresh-e tareh-ye kordi (white beans, chives) (CII)

Tajikistan

• Piezly nukhat (chickpea and onion stew) (PTT)

Turkmenistan

• Unaş (black-eyed peas, fresh noodles)

Uzbekistan

• Mashkitchiri (mung beans, rice) (PTT)