Broad Beans with Bacon

Name: Broad Beans with Bacon
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: salt and ground black pepper; 50 g/2 oz rindless smoked streaky (fatty) bacon, roughly chopped; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; 1 small onion, finely chopped; 30 ml/2 tbsp olive oil; salt and ground black pepper; 15 ml/1 tbsp sweet sherry; 5 ml/1 tsp paprika; 225 g/8 oz broad (fava) beans, thawed if frozen

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Spanish Grandmother

By Pepita Aris

Published 2013

About

This dish is particularly associated with Ronda, in southern Spain, the home of bull fighting, where broad beans are fed to fighting bulls to build them up. It is also found elsewhere in Spain where it is known as Habas Españolas. If you have time, remove the dull skins from the broad beans to reveal the bright green beans beneath.

Ingredients

30 ml/2 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped

Europe
Spain
Supper
Summer
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan or sauté pan. Add the chopped onion, garlic and bacon and fry over a high heat for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until the onion is softened and the bacon browned.
Add the beans and paprika to the pan and st

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