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English Field Bean Pate

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English Field Bean Pate — a recipe imported from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Ingredients

  • ½ lb (250 g) English beans (or tic beans, daffa beans, brown Dutch beans, or foul medames)
  • about ¼ pint (150 ml) olive oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1 large clove garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp strong-flavoured herba (e.g. thyme, sage or rosemary), minced

Instructions

  1. 1
    Soak the beans in water overnight.
  2. 2
    Boil beans in plenty of unsalted water for 1 hour until they are soft. Drain beans.
  3. 3
    Mash beans with a fork, pound them in a pestle and mortar, or press them through a sieve or food mill.
  4. 4
    Add the olive oil, salt, pepper, herbs, and garlic. If the purée is too stiff, add some lemon juice, water, or more oil.
  5. 5
    Chill and serve with toast.
Category
Appetizers

Dietary Information

Vegan

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:English_Field_Bean_Pate