Fava bean season is here in Italy, and it’s one of our favorite times of year.
In this video, Eva shares a few traditional ways to enjoy fresh fava beans, from a simple snack to one of our favorite vegetable recipes of all time. They’re incredibly versatile, but what makes them special is how good they are with very little added.
Fava beans are something a lot of people have heard of, but not many actually cook or eat regularly. In Italy, they’re a staple during this time of year, and once you try them prepared properly, it’s easy to see why.
If you’ve never really explored fava beans before, this is a great place to start!
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Easy to grow in the garden! Here in California I grow them in the fall and early spring, they are quick to grow and prefer cool weather. Also, the tops, the greens at the top of the plant, are delicious when cooked gently in liquid. It's also good to cut the tops so that the plant branches once or twice, because you get more beans and also a more stable plant. Some people in England grow them mostly for the leafy tops!
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We make that nameless dish but we don’t eat it alone. We clean artichokes and make them like a plate. Fill those “artichoke plates” with fava+onion mixture and cook with olive oi and a little water. Sprinkle some fresh chopped dill and eat it room temperature. That is my favourite dish ever. I didn’t know other cultures eat fava beans too. I will try to find some pecorino now😂 🎉
In australia they are called broad beans also. My dad also grew them in our vegetable patch.
I thought they were called broad beans
Ciao, my father was originated from puglia, this Dish is very delicious.. many greetings from braunschweig in germany 🙃
I love them and I can get them fresh in my market, but…you have to shuck them twice! So much work!
Why are they not called FavaRosa?
I seriously don't understand how you live with this cunt.
Broad beans! Yummy
Although I have never had fava beans, watching you eat them raw and squeezing them out of their skins reminded me of a snack treat my Italian friends introduced me to, lupini beans. Although they are not eaten raw, but rather the dried beans have to go through a lengthy cooking then soaking in salt water for several days. They are eaten in the same way , by squeezing them (shooting them) into your mouth. The dried beans are readily available here in the US. Is this something that's popular in Italy or just among Italian-Americans?
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Broad beans, or “bakla,” are one of my favourite seasonal vegetables too. We cook them in a couple of different ways.
One dish is made when the pods are still very fresh with skin on and not fully developed. We sauté them in olive oil with chopped onions and a handful of dill, then add just a pinch of sugar. They’re served at room temperature with a spoonful of thick yoghurt on the side.
Another version uses the greener, more mature pods, cooked much like yours. We add a little rice to thicken the broth and sometimes include a couple of artichoke hearts. A generous sprinkling of dill is absolutely essential!
I would bring them for lunch when I was school.
We are very similar to italians. As portuguese we love favas stuffed with onion, garlic, laurel and portuguese chorizo
Here in Chile we known as Habas, is very common to use them bolied with green sauce ❤️❤️❤️
I knew Eva had a Madonna in there someplace. That's a word I heard all the time growing up, and I still say it perhaps two to three times a day.
Eva Happy Mother's Day! I believe in the US and a few other countries they are known as broad beans & you can buy them dried. I think you can also by them canned or frozen. They should work in your recipes, right?
I love fave beans!!!
Broad beans in England. Yummy.
Ugh…having simmered my beans for the requisite time and noticing why the water was a dark brown and the beans not disintegrating, I did a bit of searching. The dried beans from the supermarket were still in their testa (outer skin).
To make the recipe, you need "split fava beans" aka "split broad beans" or process them to remove the testa.
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Love fava beans, my landlady years ago (from Greece) use to make me a fava bean soup, she turned me on to them. After watching this video, I was in my local Market Basket at the frozen fish case and what do I see, fresh/frozen fava beans. So there is that option outside of the regular season for the bean !! YIPPEE !!
Fava Zupa?
As a kid I loved helping my mom peeling the beans. Happy memories.
I just hate the smell when they cook…..
Congratulations for your baby coming soon!
Edamame is just overall easier.
Pasta fagioli !! 🙂
There’s a fantastic Iranian recipe called “Baghali polo”, a rice dish with fava beans, some herbs (mainly dill), and either fish (river trout), beef or mutton fillet, or even chicken. If I remember correctly, this recipe was created in the 17th century by the court chef for the Safavid dynasty emperor, Shah Abbas. Like most Iranian recipes, it’s labour intensive but certainly fit for a king. The recipe is easy to find all over the internet!
My grandfather was from Sicily and we ate cooked fava beans with olive oil and black pepper. We dip them in the oil and eat them with our hands.
I have a few Persian friends and they mix the peeled beans into basmati rice along with dill. It's usually served alongside lamb and is indescribably delicious.
loved this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Episode. Eva can you show us how to make: Frittedda, a stew w/ Artichoke hears, Fava Bean, Peas and Fennel leaves. I have not had a good one since i was small.
Yummmmmmm… i remember my mother making something almost exactly like this with fava beans & finnochio in the spring when I was a young kid. I also remember it being delicious – it's probably a big part of why I still like squishy bean dishes, 60 years later. Thank you for waking the memorry for me. 8)
Ahhhh fava beans…. This is a weird ones for y’all… I live in Quebec Canada. Fava beans are not a staple and far far from it. I come from a specific region where n Quebec called Saguenay ( it is really north and really cold there . My family always grew fava beans (we called them gourganes don’t ask why) we only make one dish with them. We make soup.. Gourgane soup. You need salted lard, barley, carottes, celery, ognon, a piece of beef that has bone and gourganes aka fava beans . I do not know why have that specific soup only in that region. I was raised with those n the garden and it is so hard to find them fresh in Montreal. It was nice to see what else can be made with them. BTW I just love them fresh and raw, it brings me back to my childhood. Thank you
My nonno dried the beans, and we had fava bean soups throughout the year. each
The first time we grew fava beans in my garden, my grandfather (in his 90s) told us about a dish his mother made for him that he knew as "Fave e Gigotti" (NJ Italian-American pronunciation). It took us a few weeks to figure out it was fava beans and chicory, but eventually we got it. Thank you for sharing this dish. There really is nothing else like it.
My Maltese father in law introduced me to fava beans. Love the flowers too.
My vote for the dish’s name: FAVA ROSA!
Needs more liver!
We eat these frequently in uk. Fortunate to have friends with an allotment 😋 Otherwise out of season. Frozen. But! Still delicious x We call them broad beans x
You know raw fava beans are very toxic. Bixby thoroughly cooked for hours to be edible. They are major cause of death in children in India. Read up on it.
Between Dr Lechter and North Africans, all the Hannibals love fava beans!