Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: noshed on June 02, 2006, 11:17
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Can you eat broad beans in the pod when they're little? Or would they be too furry. I'm pleased to say mine are about 70mm long now and looking very tempting, the only thing is I didn't plant them, I inherited them. But I have encouraged them with uplifting remarks.
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I've never tried eating the pod but the small ones, blanched for a couple of minutes and allowed to cool go well in a salad. Full of protein as well.
I think I'm right that beans have more protein than steak pound for pound.
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Apparently you can eat the pod. Use them young about 4 to 5 inches in length and cut into one inch lengths. Cook for 10 minutes. The fluff disappears during cooking.
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You should eat pineapple after eating lightly cooked or raw beans. The protiens in beans are sometimes hard to digest. The bromaline in pineapple helps to break them down a little making them easy to digest and thus prevents wind. :)
I think I read that in a Readers Digest book about food. It does seem to work.
I also heard you can pinch the tips off the top of plants and eat them, I haven't tried this yet.
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Yes noshed, I eat all my broadies young - about the size of my little finger or smaller. You can't buy them in the shops! I treat them like mangetout and eat them pods and all, raw or cooked. This time of year, I have them in a warm salad with new potatoes, red onion and anchovies - all home grown (not the anchovies :shock: ) My mother taught me to eat them like this. If any 'get away' I eat them large at the end of the season.
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Thanks a lot - the anchovy version sounds lovely. Also when you blanch them for freezing (podded) how long for is it just a quick dunk in boiling water or a couple of minutes?
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If you're having to peel the green off the broad beans to get the 'beans' out, then they're growing too old. Young beans, choopped up and lightly steamed - just like runner beans. Eat them raw too. On the digestion front, you're not eating raw beans... you're mostly eating the green around them.
And the tops are excellent - cooked just like spinach. Take them off when young and you won't be troubled by blackfly either - double whammy!
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Thanks a lot - the anchovy version sounds lovely. Also when you blanch them for freezing (podded) how long for is it just a quick dunk in boiling water or a couple of minutes?
Take a look at the storing the surplus articles - I put a blanching time chart in there which you can download and print as well.
We were going to try drying this year but I never got round to building the dryer (or fixing a cupboard door my wife shouts out!)
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or building your greenhouse!!!
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That's it milkman, stick the knofe in. I bet noshed put you up to it :)
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Crikey - a persecution complex, it's only because of your role as guru... Anyway, I've turned over a new leaf now - I'm going to post pictures of the true and unexpurgated story of plot 50A.
Which will include the little-known fact that much of the police interest in the population of E17 recently has centered round our allotments! If you look behind all the shots on the tele you can probably see my grapevine.
I fear for my shed. I hope they don't get a whiff of my comfrey tea or it'll be extreme rendition.
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You're only paranoid if they're not plotting against you!
I'm no guru - just an allotment holder. There are much better growers out there than me.
So, what's going on in E17 - I hardly watch the news, it depresses me. I believe you're only allowed on an airplane now if you travel dressed in a clear plastic bag because there was a plot to hijack a plane with a bottle of Fanta.
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Shows how dangerous those additives can be.
We're surrounded by police and TV cameras at the moment. I nearly got interviewed on my way back from the plot on Sunday. I could have shown them my cucumbers, but perhaps not.