Nigel Slater served up a simple Turkish vegetable stew with butterbeans, greens beans, peppers and onions(lokanta stew) on Nigel Slater’s Middle East.

The ingredients are: 1 large onion, roughly chopped, 6 peppers, assorted red and yellow, deseeded and quartered, 400g tomatoes assorted sizes and colours, 20 thyme sprigs, 8 tbsp olive oil, 2 x 400g tins butter beans, 2 tsp ground allspice, 350g green beans, salt and freshly ground black pepper.