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{{Short description|Turkish and Persian cuisine}}
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| type             = [[Salad]]
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| main_ingredient  = Boiled [[bean]]s, [[vegetable]]s
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'''Piyaz''' ({{langx|tr|piyaz}}, [[Persian language|Persian]]: پیاز, [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]]: pivaz, piyaz<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=caCRDwAAQBAJ | title=Kurdish Phrasebook | accessdate=28 July 2021 | author=Foreign Language Study| date=8 April 2019 }}</ref> for "onion" or salad) is a bean salad or [[meze]] in [[Turkish cuisine]] and [[Persian cuisine]]  that is made from any kind of boiled [[bean]]s with raw [[onion]], [[parsley]] and [[sumac]]. Optionally, a boiled egg can be added to this dish.

The name of "piyaz" derives from old Iranian word of "''pidāz''" for onion,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nisanyansozluk.com/?k=piyaz | title=piyaz - Nişanyan Sözlük | accessdate=28 July 2021 | author=Nişanyan, Sevan}}</ref> later on this name was adopted for salads or mezes made with onion. 

In [[Antalya]] province of [[Turkey]] it is prepared differently from other regions with other ingredients such as [[Tarator (sauce)|tarator sauce]] based on [[tahini]] (crushed sesame seeds). In Antalya, piyaz is not considered a salad but a main dish.<ref>{{cite web |title=Antalya Piyazı |url=https://ci.turkpatent.gov.tr/cografi-isaretler/detay/38277 |website=Turkish Patent and Trademark Office}}</ref>

There are also versions of piyaz made of other beans. [[Mung bean|Mung beans]] piyaz (maş piyazı) is famous in [[Gaziantep]] and, like Antalya piyaz, is registered with the [[Turkish Patent and Trademark Office]]. It is made by combining boiled mung beans with onion, parsley, red pepper flakes, olive oil, salt and pomegranate syrup, topped with walnuts. It can be decorated with red pepper flakes and pomegranate seeds. Instead of pomegranate syrup, grape syrup or lemon juice can be used.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gaziantep/Antep Maş Piyazı |url=https://ci.turkpatent.gov.tr/cografi-isaretler/detay/4262 |website=Turkish Patent and Trademark Office}}</ref>

Piyaz can be also made of chickpeas (nohut piyazı) and green lentils (mercimek piyazı).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ozan |first1=Özcan |title=The sultan's kitchen: A Turkish cookbook |date=1998 |publisher=Boston : Periplus Editions |isbn=9625932232 |page=133 |url=https://archive.org/details/sultanskitchentu0000ozan/page/132/mode/2up}}</ref>

In southern provinces like [[Adana Province|Adana]], the word "piyaz" is used to refer to an onion and sumac salad.{{source?|date=December 2023}} During the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] period, piyaz was also made from [[artichoke]], [[pea]], [[chickpea]], [[broad bean]] and [[potato]], which were introduced to [[Turkey]] in the last quarter of the 19th century.{{source?|date=December 2023}}

==See also==
* [[Pilaki]]
* [[Kuru fasulye]]
* [[Kurdish cuisine]]
* [[Turkish cuisine]]
* [[List of salads]]
* {{portal-inline|Food}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110516144557/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-77838250.html Piyaz article] in [[The Jerusalem Post]]

{{Cuisine of Turkey|meze}}
{{Kurdistan topics}}
{{Middle Eastern cuisine}}

{{Salads}}

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