WebSomething creamy, warm, and delicious is created from canned tuna here. This frittata can be served up in 25 minutes and would be a simple but tasty midweek …
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While the water heats, remove the fava beans from their long pods. Add the shelled fava beans to the boiling water and cook until bright green and tender, about 3 minutes. Drain and immediately rinse under ice cold water until cold. Decide if you would like to peel off the “second skin” ( see post above).
He quickly grills whole fava beans, tosses them with a crushed red pepper dressing and serves them hot. They can be eaten whole—the tender pods develop a lovely charred flavor on the grill—but it's also easy to eat them in the traditional way by popping the beans out of their pods and outer skins.
This dried fava bean soup is worthy of second servings. The recipe uses double-shelled dried favas, so you won’t end up with the unwelcome lumps or bitter flavor that their outer shell can contribute.
Fava beans are also known as broad beans, faba bean, field bean, or horse beans. Broad beans come in a large long leathery inedible pod (see picture above or watch the video). The inside of the leathery pod is soft and furry.