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    Beans means greens

    Nov 11, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS: JENNiFER STACKHOUSE

    When you eat broad beans you are consuming some of the oldest veggies known to cultivation. These wide, flat beans, native to the Mediterranean region, have a long history as a cultivated veggie. Remains found in excavations in northern Israel have been dated to 6800–6500 BCE and they are also known from ancient sites in Egypt.

    There are two ways to eat broad beans. They can be boiled or steamed whole when small and immature, or allowed to mature then shelled like peas so only the bean itself is eaten.

    I prefer broad beans at this later stage, but they are fiddly to prepare

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