Category legumes

What are? The grass peas are the seeds of Lathyrus sativus , a herbaceous plant belonging to the Fabaceae (legume) family . The grass peas are fairly common foods throughout the Asian continent and in the western portion of the African one, where they are widely cultivated for both human and forage consumption

Cooking legumes requires some special precautions which, if neglected, can compromise the nutritional integrity and the organoleptic and gustatory quality of the dish; it is a delicate cooking, to be carried out in abundant water, with a low flame, prolonged over time and subordinating to some equally important preparation steps

What are What are edamame? Edamame is the Japanese name for boiled soybean pods. More precisely, they are whole fruits, therefore still closed, containing the slightly immature green seeds of the herbaceous plant belonging to the Fabaceae Family, Genus Glycine and species max . Like all legumes, soy is also classified in the IV fundamental group of foods

Generality Falafels are foods of vegetable origin; in short, these are beans or chickpea balls or minced raw beans, spicy, salted, breaded and fried. The falafel have middle-eastern origins but are progressively reaching all the western nations, where they are very successful among vegan and vegetarian consumers, who consume them instead of meat

What are Azuki beans (also called aduki or adzuki ) are the seeds of the Vigna angularis plant. The name "azuki" is a transliteration of the original Japanese word ア ズ キ, but there is also a noun naturalized by the Chinese called "shōzu" (or "small bean", since "big bean" means soy). In Ch

Generality What are white beans? White beans is another way to call cannellini beans; it is therefore a botanical variety of the great species of beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ). Cannellini beans are not the only type of light bean cultivated by man; even those from Spain and some types of soy have the same shade

Chickpeas Chickpeas are the seeds of a herbaceous plant belonging to the Fabaceae family, Genus Cicer, Species arietinum (Binomial nomencaltura Cicer arietinum L.). The chickpea plant is different in different botanical varieties, which produce seeds of different shapes, sizes and colors. In Italy, the most famous and consumed variety is the so-called "European" variety

Fava beans Broad beans are the seeds of herbaceous plants belonging to the Fabaceae (or Leguminose ) family, Genus Vicia , Species faba ; the binomial nomenclature of the broad bean is Vicia faba . The beans are enclosed within a pod, or the "proper" fruit of the plant; in Tuscan dialect, broad beans are better known as "pods", but this assimilation has no botanical foundations and is rather the result of a mere simplification

Lentils Lentils are the seeds of plants belonging to the Fabaceae family (Leguminosae), Genus Lens , Specie culinaris ; therefore, its binomial nomenclature is Lens culinaris Medik. There are many types of lentils, distinguishable by differences in morphology and pigmentation; the most famous are the brown, the red (also decorticated), the green, the blonde and the rose

Lupini Lupins (or white lupins) are the fruits of an annual herbaceous plant, belonging to the Fabaceae family (Leguminosae), Genus Lupinus , Species albus . The binomial nomenclature of the lupine is Lupinus albus . The lupine plant is about a meter high, with important roots and typically colonized by a symbiotic bacterial flora, able to optimize the absorption of nitrogen from the soil