White Bean Salad with Tahini
Cooked white beans with a lemon-tahini dressing, tomato and parsley, topped with hard-boiled eggs. An Antalya-style home adaptation.
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Beans (white, cooked)
Mature white beans in a cooked, drained form, with plain canned beans among the options.
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Mature white beans, fully cooked and drained. Dry beans, chickpeas and fresh green beans are different ingredients.
Types & forms
Home-cooked white beans
Cook thoroughly before weighing the drained portion.
Canned white beans
Already cooked; compare drained weight and added salt.
What to look for when buying
- For a quick piyaz, choose plain canned white beans rather than beans in sauce.
- Avoid leaking, swollen or badly damaged cans; check the ingredient list and drained quantity.
Prepare & cook
- Drain canned beans and rinse if appropriate for the recipe.
- If starting with dry beans, use a reliable bean-cooking method and cook until tender throughout; soaking alone is not cooking.
Store it well
- Refrigerate promptly in shallow covered containers at 40°F or below; use within three to four days.
- Store unopened cans as directed and keep leftover beans refrigerated after opening.
Substitutions depend on the dish
A different cooked white-bean variety
Texture and size will change. Match the cooked drained weight, not the dry weight.
Nutrition
Beans, white, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt [1]
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 139 kcal |
| Protein | 9.73 g |
| Total fat | 0.35 g |
| Saturated fat | 0.09 g |
| Carbohydrate | 25.1 g |
| Dietary fiber | 6.3 g |
| Total sugars | 0.34 g |
| Sodium | 6 mg |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Calcium | 90 mg |
| Iron | 3.7 mg |
| Potassium | 561 mg |
| Vitamin D | 0 µg |
White mature beans boiled without salt. Canned salted products and different varieties can differ; dry weight is not cooked weight. Values are rounded for readability; “not reported” does not mean zero. A “<” value is below the source’s measurement limit.
Nutrition values come from the reference source named above. They are published reference values, not our own measurements. Actual products and cooking methods may change the values.
At the Turkish table
Cooked white beans are the base of our Antalya-style tahini piyaz. Tahini dressing is added after the beans are cooked.
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