Recipe for Perfect Broad Bean Stew

How to make the perfect Spanish broad bean stew – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

This simple Spanish classic will convince even staunch fava-phobics to give beans a chance I always feel sorry for broad beans, the lumpy cousin perpetually overshadowed by the charms of slender, elegant asparagus and sweet, bouncy, little peas. They’re in season at roughly the same time, but asparagus in particular gets all the glory, perhaps because so many of us are scarred by childhood experiences of large, grey wrinkly beans served in a floury white sauce (my own parents are so averse to...

By Felicity Cloake