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Baby Broad Bean & Pea Salad – Amanida de Favetes I Pèsols

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20 November 2018 BY Julie Biuso
SERVES: 4

Baby broad bean salad

Catalans love, love, love their broad (fava) beans! So hardy and easy to grow, they set up the vegetable garden for the rest of the summer’s plantings by fixing much-needed nitrogen in that deliciously rich Catalan soil.

Inspiration for the flavour combinations in this dish comes from one of my favourite restaurants, Can Fabes located in the beautiful broad bean-growing lands of Sant Celoni, situated between the Montseny and Montnegre massifs.

Ingredients
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500ml (17 fl oz/2 cups) vegetable stock ½ bunch tarragon 200g (7 oz) fresh or frozen podded broad (fava) beans 150g (5½ oz) fresh or frozen podded peas 2 mint sprigs, leaves thinly sliced Sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper 3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1 Tbsp sherry vinegar 1 tsp freshly grated ginger Juice of ½ lemon ¼ radicchio, shredded 100g (3½ oz) queso fresco or firm ricotta

Method
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1 Bring the vegetable stock and two tarragon sprigs to the boil in a medium saucepan over medium–high heat.

2 Blanch the broad beans for 2 minutes then, using a slotted spoon, remove from the stock and immediately transfer to a bowl of iced water. Remove the outer skins of most of the larger beans, leaving the smaller ones intact for a touch of bitterness.

3 Bring the stock back to the boil and blanch the peas for 4 minutes, then strain and cool in the iced water.

4 Finely chop the remaining tarragon leaves and place in a medium bowl with the blanched broad beans and peas, mint, a pinch of salt and pepper and half the olive oil.

5 In a separate bowl, combine the vinegar, ginger, lemon juice and remaining oil, then toss through the shredded radicchio. Mix this through the broad bean and pea mixture.

6 Transfer the salad to a serving platter and dot the queso fresco or ricotta over the top.

Author’s Note

My favourite meal at the Can Fabes – owned by three-Michelin star chef Santi Santamaria, who has since sadly passed away, was an aspic-like jelly packed full of teeny-tiny, bright green podded baby broad beans with the mild, fresh essence of ginger. So clean and unforgettable.

Recipe from

The Catalan Kitchen: From Mountains to City and Sea – Recipes from Spain’s Culinary Heart

by Emma Warren

Photography © Rochelle Eagle | Food styling © Lee Blaylock

Smith Street Books, October 2018 – AU$ 55, NZ$ 65

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Comments

  1. Martin Carrington says

    20 November 2018 at 11:35 pm

    Hi Julie, loving your newsletters! In the Wairarapa we’re not allowed to grow peas yet, but have an abundance of delicious beans at the moment. We seem to be missing the ingredients list for this recipe. I’d be able to estimate by reading through but it’ll be a guess so wondered if you could help us out a little here please? Keep up the mouth-watering work! Martin xox

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    • Julie Biuso says

      21 November 2018 at 12:33 am

      Oh dear, I know, I forgot to attach them. Honestly, I work so quickly it’s a surprise it doesn’t happen more often (it doesn’t help that you post the method before the ingredients in the computer back end). Hey! I thought you were still in Marlborough? Enjoy those beans.

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  2. Sue says

    20 November 2018 at 11:54 pm

    Hi Julie
    Baby Broad Bean & Pea Salad –
    Recipe sounds delicious, any chance you can post the ingredient quantities please
    Thanks very much

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    • Julie Biuso says

      21 November 2018 at 12:30 am

      HaHa! Too speedy, posted it before checking. Ingredients now attached. Enjoy it Sue.

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