One of the best things about broad beans is their adaptability. Unlike many vegetables, they thrive in cooler conditions, ...

Broad beans are at their best from the end of May through to mid-July, when the pods are pale green and soft and the beans are still small. Only brief steaming or cooking is required when broad ...

I was perhaps most surprised by the absence of the everyday, unglamorous familiars of the vegetable patch, and none more so than broad beans. Homegrown broad beans — being so much quicker from plot to ...

Britons should be eating bread made from broad beans as it's healthier than wheat and benefits the environment, scientists say. Most flour used to make white bread contains soy beans, which are ...

1. Chilled broad bean and pea soup Ingredients: 1kg broad beans in pods, 500g peas in pods, 25g margarine, 1 large onion (finely chopped), 900ml vegetable stock, 2 sprigs of mint, 150g carton of ...

Roger Vickers, chief executive of Processors and Growers Research Organisation, which specialises in the growing of fava beans, says the bean has long been cultivated in the UK and was a staple of ...

Unlike imported soya beans currently used in bread, broad beans, also known as faba beans, grow in the UK. Recommended ‘Unprecedented’ flash floods and landslides bring Auckland to grinding ...

However, even more satisfying for those of us who are already yearning for spring is the opportunity to plant broad beans and peas now for an early harvest next year. Before frosts, snow and ice ...

Broad beans are among the finest of old English vegetables, but they have been notoriously abused. The traditional coating of heavy white sauce laced with scratchy scraps of curly parsley throws ...

It makes a delicious pasta sauce all year round and the addition of broad beans give it a particulary summery, seasonal feel. If you can get hold of it, wild rabbit is by far the best option and ...

The UK should swap regular flour for bread made with broad beans, according to researchers. By switching to “beans in toast”, research leader at University of Reading, Professor Julie ...