Broad Bean Cake

Torta di Fave

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio's Southern Italian Feast: More Than 100 Recipes Inspired by the Flavour of Southern Italy

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1998

  • About

Of all the culinary oddities, this Sardinian cake is one of the most peculiar. It must have been invented by a farmer with plenty of broad beans in his field. I tried it and it tastes better than it sounds. The freshness of the broad beans is paramount: they must be young and tender. However, I have tried it with blanched and peeled frozen ones, which worked well.