Broad Beans

nicoc

Hi All,

After a very succesful trip to Mr A's last night where i picked up lots of lovely whoopsied items I got a bit carried away in the veg aisle and bought a huge bag of reduced broad beans. Only on the way home when OH was praising my frugal ways did it occur to me I had some how mistaken them for green beans (clearly they look nothing like them but in my tired state I'd looked at them and decided they were something else entirely!).

Does anyone have any nice recipes I could use them in? I thought they might be nice in a salad of some description but given last night's escapades I may be going mad here!

Thanks in advance

jackieglasgow

Risottos, broad bean and feta cheese salad, soup (but they're much nicer just blanched than cooked down when they're raw.

Pink.

Hi nicoc,

Fresh broad beans are delicious raw in salads or just lightly steamed and eaten as a veg.

This thread has more ideas:

Broad Beans

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together

jfdi

I had some left from last year in the freezer - so I lightly cooked them, cooled them down & made up some humous with them (coz you can do it with any bean/pea).

I think I left out the tahini, or only put a wee bit in.

It was delicious! (looked pretty too).

A
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fairtrade

This is the site for you, scroll down for the 17 recipes for broad beans :-
http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/

nicoc

This is brilliant thanks so much!

wow humous i'd have never have thought of that, will have fun tonight trying some of these recipes!

Memory_Girl

Bargain from Approved Foods naturally.

So who has got some tried and tested recipes for broad beans? Doing a Storecupboard Challenge and will not be beaten by a tin of beans.:p

We are 1 adult, 1 ten year old and one three year old - but like a wide range of foods.

What do you recommend?

Memorygirl

AlwaysAllie

I think you can make hoummus from broad beans..........

AA

BitterAndTwisted

Yes, you can. I'm sure the Greeks cook broad beans in a tomato and garlic sauce. Yummy!

If you can't find a way of using them all up in recipes I daresay you could freeze them on trays and then once frozen store in a bag or container.

BitterAndTwisted

How about some of these recipes? There's one for briad-bean houmous on the VegBox one. I rather fancy the risotto one.

http://vegbox-recipes.co.uk/ingredients/broad-beans.php

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/9082/koukia-lathera--greek-broad-beans-.aspx