Instructions: In parts of Italy small young broad beans are eaten raw in their pods with Pecorino cheese.

We use them fresh out of their pods cooked with mint and mashed with olive oil and in Vignole. Dried fava beans are good in soup. Soak as for borlotti beans.

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