Balkans Bean Dishes

• (OWK) Luard: The Old World Kitchen: The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking

Albania

• Jani me fasule (🔗1)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Grah (🔗1)

Croatia

• Grah i varivah (🔗1)
• Pašta fažol (🔗1 🔗2 🔗3)
• Rapsko sočivo (small green beans, chickpeas, wheat, corn) (🔗1 🔗2)

Cyprus

• Fakes moutzentra (lentils with rice and onions) (VK, 🔗1)

Greece

• (VK) Alexiadou: Vefa’s Kitchen
• Fasolia salata (VK, 🔗1)
• Fasoulokeftedes (bean fritters) (VK, 🔗1)
• Piperies gemistes me fasolia (bell peppers stuffed with beans) (VK, 🔗1)
• Pitakia me kokina fasolia (bean crescents from Asia Minor) (VK, 🔗1)

Runner Beans

• Gigantes plaki (VK, 🔗1)

Grass Peas

• Keftedes me fava (grass pea croquettes) (VK, 🔗1)
• Fava (grass pea puree) (🔗1)

Chickpeas

• Revithokeftedes (chickpea fritters) (🔗1)
• Hummus (VF, 🔗1)
• Roka salata me revithia (arugula, chickpeas) (VK, 🔗1)
• Tavas me lahanika ke revithia (vegetable and chickpea casserole) (VK, 🔗1)
• Revithia me kitrini kolokitha (chickpeas with squash) (VK, 🔗1)
• Revithia me spanaki (VK, 🔗1)
• Psomi eftazimo (chickpea sourdough bread) (VK, 🔗1)

White Beans

• Fasolada (bean soup) (VK, 🔗1)
• Fasolia salata (dried bean salad) (white beans, tuna) (VK, 🔗1)

Peas

• Soupa krema me araka (cream of pea soup) (VK, 🔗1)
• Poures me araka ke patates (dried pea and potato puree) (VK, 🔗1)

Lentils

• Fakes ke manitaria salata (lentil and mushroom salad) (VK, 🔗1)
• Rizi me fakes ke lahanika (rice with lentils and vegetables) (VK, 🔗1)

Cranberry Beans

• Barbounofasoula (braised fresh cranberry beans) (VK, 🔗1)

Fava Beans

• Arakas me koukia (fava beans with peas) (VK)
• Koukia fava (fava puree) (VK) (🔗1)
• Koukia giahni me rigani (fava with oregano) (VK, 🔗1)

Kidney Beans

• Kokina xera fasolia giahni (kidney bean stew) (VK, 🔗1)

Black-Eyed Peas

• Mavromatika fasolia giahni me araka (black eyed pea, green pea stew) (VK, 🔗1)
• Mavromatika fasolia me maratho (black eyed peas with fennel) (VK, 🔗1)

Crete

• Fried fava beans (Freska koukia tiganita) (VK, 🔗1)
• Mixed greens and tomatoes with black-eyed peas (Wolfert: Mediterranean Greens and Grains)
• Chickpea-leavened bread and rusks (Wolfert: Mediterranean Grains and Greens)
• Palikaria (mixed grains, mixed beans, herbs) (Wolfert: Mediterranean Grains and Greens, 🔗1)

Santorini

• Santorini fava (🔗1)

Pontus

• Gigantes me pastourma (giant beans with pastrami) (VK, 🔗1)
• Fasoulogoulia (beans with cabbage) (VK, 🔗1)

Mount Athos

• Fakes soupa aladotes (lentil soup) (VK, 🔗1)
• Fakes me htapodi ke rizi (lentils with octopus and rice) (VK, 🔗1)

Lefkada

• Aspri fasolada (white bean soup) (VK, 🔗1)

Serres

• Revithia me melitzanes (chickpea and eggplant casserole) (VK, 🔗1)

Sifnos

• Revithia sto fourno (VK, 🔗1)

Serbia

• Pasulj (OWK, 🔗1)
• Beans as in Serbia (white beans, bones, dumplings, yogurt) (TCH)
• Prebanac (1)

Slovenia

• Jota (cranberry/kidney beans, sauerkraut) (🔗1 🔗2)
• Matevz (creamed potatoes and beans) (🔗1 🔗2)