An annual Old World plant in the pea family, also called "broad bean." It is the bean of antiquity.
This tan, rather flat bean resembles a very large lima bean. It comes in a large pod which, unless very young, is inedible. Fava beans can be purchased dried, cooked in cans and, infrequently, fresh. If you find fresh fava beans, choose those with pods that are not bulging with beans, which indicates age. Fava beans have a very tough skin, which should be removed by blanching before cooking. They are very popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes. They can be cooked in a variety of ways and are often used in soups. Also called faba bean, broad bean and horse bean.
Large green meaty bean sold fresh in the pod. Smaller white or tan fava beans are dried or canned and cannot be used interchangeably with the fresh beans. Common in Middle Eastern and Italian cooking. Also known as broad bean, horse bean, and Windsor bean.
large bean usually eaten boiled, sauteed or deep fried as a snack that can cause rapid hemolysis in Hgb H and H-CS patients, and therefore should be avoided[close window
seed of the broad-bean plant
shell beans cooked as limas
A bean the looks like a large lima bean, popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking. They have a tough skin that can be removed by blanching.
is the ancient bean of the Mediterranean region, eaten fresh, dried, or split. It's the base of our Egyptian Market Soup and Ta'amiya. The dish called ful mudammes is said to be "breakfast for a rich man, lunch for a laborer, and dinner for a pauper."
This bean looks like a very large lima bean. The pod is inedible unless the plant is very young. Avoid pods bulging with beans as this is an indication of age. Also known as the "broad bean."
large, tan, flat bean shaped like a lima; popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes
The fava bean, Vicia faba, the Broad Bean, Faba Bean, Horse Bean, Field Bean or Tic Bean is a species of bean (Fabaceae) native to north Africa and southwest Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere. Although usually classified in the same genus Vicia as the vetches, some botanists treat it in a separate monotypic genus as Faba sativa Moench. The beans can be fried, causing the skin to split open, and then salted to produce a crunchy snack. These are popular in China, and also in Thailand where their name means "open-mouth nut". Broad beans are rich in tyramine, and thus should be avoided by those taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors. They contain vicine and convicine, which can induce hemolytic anemia in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD). This condition, which is quite common in certain ethnic groups, is called "favism".