WAIE (whatamieating.com)
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Language: Italian
Description: A Tuscan name for butter beans or Lima beans. The butter bean or lima bean is a large, creamy-coloured, sweetish-flavoured bean with a soft floury texture when cooked. When dried this bean keeps for a long time. They are particularly good in mixed bean salads and in rich meaty stews. High in potassium. Butter beans are large and white, while sieva beans are smaller and greener and are used a great deal in the United States.
| Butter beans (in the middle), with many thanks to Arjuna on Mill Road in Cambridge |
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Pronounced: bah-chehl
Latin: Phaseolus lunatus/Phaseolus limensis
Ethnicity: Italian
Most frequent country: Italy
Most frequent region: Tuscany
Also known as: fagioli bianci di Spagna
See places: Italian food and cuisine, Tuscany
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