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Dried Fava Bean and Green Pepper Bell Pepper Salad( Salad – Legume )

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INGREDIENTS:

    • 1 cup dried fava beans with skins
    • 1 small bell pepper {about 1 cup when cut}
    • 1/2 cup finely choped fresh parsley


      The Dressing

    • 5 T olive oil
    • 4 T lemon juice
    • 3/4 t salt
    • 1/8 t ground black pepper
    • 1 clove garlic, peeled and mashed to pulp

METHOD:
Combine beans and 5 cups water in pot, bring to boil. Cover, lower heat and
simmer for 2 minutes. Turn off heat let sit for 1 hour.

Bring to a boil again. Cover
and let simmer for 30-50 minutes. Cook until tender. Drain under cool water.

Peel
beans and discard skins. Combine all ingredients. Stir gently, pour dressing
over contents. Enjoy!!

NOTES:
Middle East origin.

FAVA BEANS: Available in several forms. Fresh, hidden inside large green pods. Open the
pods and extract the beans. The beans thenselves are also clothed in their
own “seed coats” or skins, which are hard and tasteless. Unless the beans
are very young and tender, these skins need to be removed.

Here is the best way to cook them: Boil the beans for about 10 minutes in
lightly salted water. They should be quite tender inside their coats.
Now they are ready to be peeled. Drain and let them cool under running water
first. Two pounds of pods yield about 2 to 2 and half cups of beans.
Discard the peel. They taste a bit like fresh lima beans.

Then there are the dried fava beans which are available year round at
Chinese, Greek and Middle Eastern stores. They come without their pods, of course but you can get them with or without their skins. They taste somewhat like chestnuts after they have been cooked. I boil them for 2 minutes and then let them sitin hot water for 1 hour. Then
boil them for for another 30 45 minutes or until they are just tender. The
beans can be put in salads or or pureed and put into scrambled eggs.

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