Fava Beans Supreme
Recipe: #3757
December 29, 2011
" This is a wonderful vegetable. They are best peeled after cooking them. Try different combinations or have them just plain buttered. If you use canned fava beans skip the first two steps."
Original is 3 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (281.3 g)
- Calories 321.6
- Total Fat - 11.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.5 g
- Cholesterol - 4.4 mg
- Sodium - 516.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 40.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 11 g
- Sugars - 4.7 g
- Protein - 16.1 g
- Calcium - 143.4 mg
- Iron - 3.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 9.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Shell the fava beans, boil in lightly salted water for about 6 minutes
Step 2
Cool the beans until you can handle them, peel off the white skin
Step 3
Place the beans in a buttered oven proof dish
Step 4
While the beans are cooking saute the onion, garlic, tomato and pepper flakes in the teaspoon of oil until just soft
Step 5
Pour onions, tomatoes over the beans, cover with foil and bake in 350f oven for 15 minutes
Step 6
Remove foil, sprinkle with parmesan and continue cooking until the cheese is golden
Tips
No special items needed.