Pilaki
Bean dish
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Pilaki is a style of meze and may refer to several dishes that are cooked in a sauce made out of onion, garlic, carrot, potato, tomato or tomato paste, sugar, and olive oil. Beans used in this style are white beans,[1][2] or borlotti beans. They are served cold, garnished with parsley and slices of lemon. Fish pilaki is also a popular recipe. In Greek cuisine, this style is known as plaki.[3][4][5] In Bulgarian cuisine the name is "plakiya".
See also
- Gigandes plaki, a similar Greek dish.
- Piyaz, another Turkish bean dish.
- Rajma, an Indian dish.
- Red beans and rice, a Louisiana Creole specialty.
