Fava Beans and Pecorino Toscano

Name: Fava Beans and Pecorino Toscano
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 servings black pepper; 4 servings fava beans; 4 servings olive oil; 4 servings Pecorino; 4 servings radicchio; 4 servings sea salt

Fava Beans and Pecorino Toscano is a gluten free and vegetarian recipe with 4 servings. One portion of this dish contains around 16g of protein, 22g of fat, and a total of 335 calories. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have radicchio, sea salt, olive oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour.

Instructions

Place the fava beans and pecorino in a small mixing bowl.

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Fava Beans

Pecorino

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Mixing Bowl

Drizzle the olive oil over the top and season with salt and pepper. Toss very gently just to combine the flavors and being careful not to break the beans or crush the cheese.

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Salt And Pepper

Olive Oil

Cheese

Beans

Mound a quarter of the beans and cheese in the center of each of 4 salad plates. Top each serving with a few slivers of radicchio.A More Complex Version

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Radicchio

Cheese

Beans

For a variation on this recipe, do as my friends at Da IFrasca of Montevarchi do: For each serving, top cup/55g fava beans with 2 tablespoons cooked and cooled cannellini beans, drizzle with the olive oil, then top with Pecorino Toscano and a few shavings of white or black truffle.

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Cannellini Beans