Name: Cold Olive-Oily Broad Beans in their Pods
Yield: serves 6-8
Ingredients: 8 fl oz boiling water; 5 fl oz pure olive oil (not virgin or extra-virgin); 2 tablespoons lemon juice; big pinch sugar; salt; 10 fl oz strained Greek-style yoghurt; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill weed; 2 onions – peeled and chopped; 2 lb young fresh broad beans in pods – strings and stems cut off; 2 cloves garlic – peeled and minced

Preparation info

serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

Ingredients

2 lb young fresh broad beans in pods – strings and stems cut off
2 onions – peeled and chopped
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Method

Wash whole beans thoroughly. Drain. Sauté the chopped onion for a few minutes in the oil in a large, heavy, lidded saucepan over a medium flame, to soften but not colour. Turn heat down to low, add the beans in their pods, the lemon juice, sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir, cover pan and leave to stew for 15 minutes, stirring from time to time.

Add water and 1 tablespoon of the dill, adju