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Readily available in fresh, frozen, canned, or dried varieties, fava beans are legumes native to Northern Africa and Southern Asia, although they are now cultivated virtually worldwide.
Valuable in many areas as a cover crop to prevent erosion since they will not die in the winter, fava beans grow in pods on bean stalks of average height. Before they are eaten, the beans must be removed from their leathery brown pods, and then from their waxy white skin.
One of the oldest known cultivated crops, fava beans are prominent in many Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes. Often served in salad, soup and stew, they can also be mashed and combined with spices to create dips and spreads.
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Fast Facts:
- Latin name: Vicia faba
- Also known as broad bean, horse bean, field bean or Windsor bean
- Season: Early summer
- Fava is Italian for bean
- The only beans eaten in Europe before the discovery of the new world
- Pop culture reference: Infamous Hannibal Lecter quote from The Silence of the Lambs
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Fava Beans Questions
Anyone know where I can get Fava Beans? I want to make traditional Falafel. What is a fava bean? 1 AnswerWhat is a fava bean? broad bean: seed of the broad-bean plant shell beans cooked as lima beans. where can you buy fava beans? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product... read more
Did the Mayan's eat beans? 1 AnswerThere were historical evidence of mayan's eating beans and corns. Less info is available about the details of their intake. read more
What area of the world did the bean originate from? 2 Answershttp://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/9/9e/A_green_bean.jpg Common Bean or Phaseolus vulgaris. The wild bean origins had been inconsistently followed. Scienti... read more
How should you store and use beans? 1 AnswerThe method of storing the beans (coffee) depends upon the type of beans used.That is whether it is green coffee beans, roasted coffee beans or ground coffee bea... read more
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i ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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RT @Shaktipaj: rofl No, I think we'll just have a light snack - 4 will do ~ Fava beans and chianti? :D
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Photo: Hummus with whole fava beans, tahini, organic hard boiled egg, oliv e oil, and spices… And there’s... http://tumblr.com/x7b47m2ha
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It's a good thing they don't serve fava beans at that teriyaki place, because that cashier looked HUNGRY.
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Planted Fava Beans and Garlic bulbs as winter cover crops http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/em/em8697/
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