Fried broad bean pods
4 July 2021 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI got a couple of pounds of fresh broad beans (which doesn't equate to all that much actual bean!) and, as usual, ended up with a vast heap of empty pods once I had finished shelling them. So I thought I'd try this Abel & Cole recipe for broad bean pod fritters.
It does actually work. You string the beans, dip the pods in flour (I cut mine into half-inch pieces, not being sure how large "3-4cm" was, and they were too small and fiddly), then in milk/egg, then in flour again, and shallow-fry them until they are brown and crisp. As the recipe says, they taste much the same "as anything that's fried and dusted with salt" -- I'm not sure how much nutritional value you get out of the result (flour and oil mainly, I suspect!) but they're certainly edible.
It only used half a dozen pods before my pan was full, though -- and so was I, having eaten a massive vegetable stir-fry beforehand! -- so I still had to dispose of an enormous heap of broad bean pods afterwards :-p
It does actually work. You string the beans, dip the pods in flour (I cut mine into half-inch pieces, not being sure how large "3-4cm" was, and they were too small and fiddly), then in milk/egg, then in flour again, and shallow-fry them until they are brown and crisp. As the recipe says, they taste much the same "as anything that's fried and dusted with salt" -- I'm not sure how much nutritional value you get out of the result (flour and oil mainly, I suspect!) but they're certainly edible.
It only used half a dozen pods before my pan was full, though -- and so was I, having eaten a massive vegetable stir-fry beforehand! -- so I still had to dispose of an enormous heap of broad bean pods afterwards :-p
