Fagioli con le Cotiche

Borlotti Beans with Pork Skin

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Lombardian Cookbook

By Alessandro Pavoni and Roberta Muir

Published 2015

  • About

In the spaghetti westerns I grew up watching, there were two famous actors, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, and in every movie Bud Spencer (the big one) was making the beans with the pork skin and Terence Hill would distract him and steal the beans while he wasn’t looking. It always made me want to eat this dish, which my Papà called “fagioli alla Terence Hili’. You may need to order the pork skin in advance from your butcher. These days it usua