Beans salad. STRAWBERRY Salmorejo
The Pythagoreans were vegetarians. Do not eat meat was forbidden, this diet is called the Pythagorean diet. Could only eat vegetables: Vegetables and legumes. Except ... beans.
For adherents of the school of the followers of Pythagoras, the beans were sacred and could not be eaten.
were "counted beans".
They believed that all things were essentially playing with numbers and beans to compose digital structures. Triangular numbers, squares, the sacred "tetrakis", the staff ...
The Romans, however, do not they respect neither dry and put a seed in some candy to make fun of it find it. Custom which persists in the current Kings Roscón: those who have the misfortune to bite, you have to pay the whole sweet: "The silly bean" that he says ....
in my organic garden sow a handful of beans every year because, like all old aspiring known agricultural expert, legumes have some nodules in their roots that fix nitrogen in the soil atmosphere, and that's good.
It also has the advantage that, not me Pythagorean, I can eat their fruits and seeds without any remorse. Pick
(and use) the beans in four stages: 1 .-
as they appear. When you 6 to 8 cm. and just appreciating the thickening of the seed. I make them "fish garden" of my grandmother.
2 .- When the seeds are seen through the pod. They have to be very tender, must be broken to a low torque. The use for extremeñísimo "mojo" of beans for rice or the "fry bean" from my mother.
3 .- The seeds and pods are curds and has become leathery and tough. Then the hair, pick up the seeds, most tender-with which to prepare the salad before us today.
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4 .- The seeds are still green, have grown to full size. Also the hair and the seeds, sometimes peeled, do the dishes known: A Catalan, with ham, chorizo \u200b\u200bin hot dishes, or even to eat raw as an appetizer. Are common to ordinary mortals, since it is these, and not others, the beans reach the markets.
The rest will be dried and used to seed the following year, to the famous michirones Murcia (exceptionally) or feed livestock. Bruno, the pony, loves. We
these days with beans in its third stage of growth and time to eat the seeds tender, habitats, beans and other names baby soft with which they are designated. Tiny beans, as the nail of his little finger.
If you decide, have no qualms about buying frozen (actually, I freeze the surplus) or those that come in glass jars of excellent quality, and do not require pre-cooking. For the salad
tender habitats we need:
400 gr. of habitats and peeled (a jar or bag, if frozen).
1 tomato, peeled and seeded.
1 piece of green pepper.
1 piece of red pepper.
1 piece of cucumber, seeded and almost no skin.
A mint straw (provided). A few blocks
ham. (Be generous, but not lavish. Or, conversely, do not know).
A pinch of salt and oil chorretón mild flavor (0.4 º). None of vinegar here.
And we do well:
If habitats are preserved, colarlas and rinse with cold water.
If they are fresh or frozen, blanch for thirty seconds in boiling water with some salt. Drain and refresh in ice water immediately. Book.
Cut ham into cubes.
Peel tomatoes and remove the seeds and cut into brunoise and peppers and cucumber.
knife Chop mint.
In a bowl, mix the ingredients, seasoning with a pinch of salt and oil. Let stand for a while and add the beans.
Mix and serve.
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