Saladitos

I first came across saladitos when I was pretending I could cook for a living out in Spain: it took me quite few years to work out that these addictive little beer-chasers are actually lupin beans. Over there, they are normally eaten as a tapas, but they are stunning in this simple side salad.

A word about using raw, dried lupin beans: I don’t want to put you off or anything, but they take around five days to prepare. They contain certain bitter toxins, you see, and in