butter beans

Fried butterbeans with feta, spinach and sumac

October 16, 2010

Butter beans with spinach, feta and sumac from Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

I seem to always pick the one recipe in a book that revolves around some new and exotic ingredient that I’ve never even seen before, let alone used. The other week, it was goat. This week, it’s sumac, the dried, ground fruit of the rhus plant. Sumac is common all over the Middle East, where [...]

Food & drink

butter beans, feta, Ottolenghi, Plenty, Salad, sumac

Confit chicken legs with butter beans and chorizo stew

May 19, 2010

There’s no reason for confit to be saved just for duck legs. You can confit just about any meat in the same way – all you’re doing is cooking meat slowly in fat. I’ve previously tried rabbit with great success, and these chicken legs are another excellent alternative. Confitting is a two stage process – [...]

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beans, butter beans, Chicken, Chorizo, confit