Hello, friends, food lovers, and community greetings! In recent years, Norwegian farmers have started cultivating fava beans. In Norway, beans aren't widely used, and there tends to be a slow adoption of new foods, cultural trends, or community changes. I am curious about the reason behind the production of fava beans. I spoke with a nearby farmer who had these beans in her plot this year, but she couldn't provide a satisfactory answer.
Initially, I thought these beans might be for horses (Because in Norway they are known as hestebønner) means horse beans—after all, we have many horse stables around here and this is food for horses.
To learn more, I searched online and discovered they are fava beans are similar to other types of beans and can indeed be eaten by humans.
I am always cautious about new food and what food is good for health according to season or harvest time.
Fava beans plants are around 1 meter tall.
Green fava pods.
Ripe fava pods. this is just to show what they look like.
The last time I bought some vegetables, I got some fava-beans from that farmer's shop, When I bought them the pod was peeled away I intended to try them for their taste. Because of my busy work schedule, I forgot about them, and they ended up in the fridge. When I finally found them, they had sprouted, and their peels had turned brown. otherwise, they were still fresh.
I peeled them (removed brown peels) and washed them.
Then used a pressure cooker to cook them.
When cooked they tasted like boiled peanuts. so I created this new Middle Eastern-style recipe but haven't found a good name for it yet. It could be a veg side dish or maybe a party dip
Ingredients:
2 cups of cooked fava beans
1 cup finely chopped onion
2 tbsp tahini
2 tbsp tomato puree
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp paprika powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp back pepper
1 tbsp chopped garlic
1/2 lemon
2 tomatoes
I warmed olive oil in a skillet and added 1 cup of finely chopped onion.
saute the onion for 2 minutes.
Added chopped garlic and stirred for 1 more minute.
Added chopped tomatoes.stirred well until tomatoes were soft.
Added spices salt, paprika, pepper, and cumin and mixed well.
Added 2 tbsp tomato puree.
Added 1/2 cup water and cooked all ingredients for 2 minutes.
When it became softer and like a smooth paste
Added cooked fava beans.
Mixed it nicely together with the onion-tomato spice mixture.
used a spoon to mash them in the mixture.
Rinsed tomato puree cup adding 1/2 cup water and poured in the mixture.
Added 1 tsp lemon juice.
covered and cooked on low heat.
In the tahini I added the remaining lemon juice.
And 1/4 cup of water.
made the sauce of tahini.
Adding salt and pepper.kept aside.
Added 1/2 tahini sauce in the mixture of fava beans, onion, tomatoes, and spices. half part of the tahini sauce has been saved.
The fava beans are ready to serve. But not in a hurry I served it this way.
Chopped 1/2 onion
A few sprigs of coriander,
1/2 chopped tomato.
I transferred fava bean sauce to the soup plate.
Spread some chopped tomato
Onion
coriander
Tahini sauce.
and olive oil.
Served with Indian flatbread/chapatis.
It was the first time but was very successful
It turns out very delicious. As well as looks very nice.
Thank you for stopping by.