California Farm Dried Fava Beans in Cream Sauce

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

Dried Fava beans are delicious when soaked and steamed, as a vegetable with dinner, in a cream sauce. Dried favabeans keep their fresh taste for ten years when dried, and even sprout again after ten years when planted. The green fava beans are ripe now, 75 days after planting, the beans then dry to deep purple in the pod if left on the plant, and the pods burst and beans shake out easily after another 30 days.

California Farm Dried Fava Beans in Cream Sauce

Dried Fava beans are delicious when soaked and steamed, as a vegetable with dinner, in a cream sauce. Dried favabeans keep their fresh taste for ten years when dried, and even sprout again after ten years when planted. The green fava beans are ripe now, 75 days after planting, the beans then dry to deep purple in the pod if left on the plant, and the pods burst and beans shake out easily after another 30 days.

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Ingredients

2 Hour soak, 1 hour steam
2 people
  1. 2 cupsdried fava beans (requires two pounds of pods)
  2. Tspbaking soda
  3. 8 cupswater
  4. Pinchsalt and pepper
  5. Cupcoconut milk
  6. Pinchnutmeg
  7. 2 Tbsolive oil
  8. Tbscorn starch with 3Tbs cold water

Cooking Instructions

2 Hour soak, 1 hour steam
  1. 1

    Peel beans from pods. Stir around in olive oil till covered. Simmer covered with water till soft. Beans will turn black.

  2. 2

    Bring coconut milk with nutmeg in saucepan to boil. Mix Tbs corn starch with 3Tbs cold water, add to coconut milk when boiling, stir to thicken into a creamy sauce. Pour over cooked beans. Serve.

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Hobby Horseman
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I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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