Name: Fave Novelle in Padella (Braised Broad Beans in Their Pods)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 onions, finely sliced; 1 kg baby broad beans, with the bean just formed inside; 100 g fatty pancetta, cut into strips; 100 ml olive oil; salt and pepper; 100 g hot pork sausage (salsiccia piccante), cut into cubes; 20 mint leaves, chopped; 200 ml water

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

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Ingredients

100 ml olive oil
100 g fatty pancetta, cut into strips
2

Method

Put the olive oil in a pan and fry the pancetta with the onions. Let the onions become soft, about 5 minutes, and then add the broad beans and the water (add more if required). Cook for 25 minutes, then add the mint and the sausage cubes. Cook for a further 10 minutes, then add salt and pepper to taste.

Serve as a first course.