Broad Beans with Morcilla

One of our most memorable dishes is broad beans with morcilla. Once in Barcelona we came across an unassuming café with a small queue of people outside. We knew it would be worth the wait, and before long we were sitting down to a plate of habas con morcilla. It was April, the season for young broad beans, for each bean was no larger than a fingernail, and like all young vegetables their sweetness and tenderness were exquisite. They had been simply cooked with garlic, mint, a few fennel see