Bean Salad with Eggs and Onions

Bean salads are ever present on the Sephardic table. This particular Turkish recipe from Esin Eden uses huevos haminados and thin onion slices tossed with parsley as garnishes. The latter garnish is an interesting variation on the usual bean salad. Typically chopped raw onion is tossed with the cooked beans, making it a component rather than a garnish. In summer, sliced tomatoes can join the sliced onions. Sumac, the ground dried berries of a bush that flourishes in the Middle East,