Rosemary Garlic Marinated Fava Beans. These marinated fava beans make an excellent snack or salad topper! Fava beans marinated with rosemary and garlic are super healthy for you too!
My Rosemary Garlic Marinated Fava Bean Recipe is:
- Healthy for you
- Great for weight loss!
- High in fiber for gut health
- Excellent snack
- Delicious on salads
Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19, I have been even more conscious of what I am putting into my body. I think, is this fighting disease or feeding it? A HUGE contributor to our immunity is our gut health. The friendly gut bugs need to be fed high fiber foods, like marinated fava beans (or unmarinated).
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HOW TO MAKE ROSEMARY GARLIC MARINATED FAVA BEANS
My pickled fava beans recipe is SO easy to make!
Add the dried fava beans to a medium sized sauce pan. Rinse them and discard any discolored or bad looking ones. Fill the pan with water to cover the beans by about 1 inch.
Place this pan on the stove and bring it to a boil. When it starts boiling, reduce the heat to low, cover the pan with a lid, and cook for about 35 minutes.
Don't pressure cook or soak them!
A quick note on the beans: they should NOT be soaked. Unlike other beans, where soaking greatly benefits the cooking time and texture, soaking these beans will create mushy beans!
Another thing to note is that when I pressure cooked them, un-soaked, for only 10 minutes, they STILL came out mushy. Look at how they look below:
My conclusion is to not use the pressure cooker (or instant pot pressure) for these. I cook all my beans on the pressure cooker setting in my instant pot, but not these now!
The best way to add a nice garlic flavor, is to smash the cloves. All you have to do is press the clove under a wide knife. Just be careful not to place your hand where the sharp edge of the knife is! See how I do it below:
If you want to eat the marinated garlic, it is super good for you! You can also mince the garlic cloves, but I don't like the taste of raw minced garlic in my salad.
Add your cooked beans, smashed garlic, rosemary, and salt to a 24 oz mason jar.
Cover the beans with vinegar. Then, seal it with a lid and store these in the fridge!
Marinating time and Storage
Marinate fava beans for 1-3 days in the fridge (the longer they go, the stronger the flavor!). They will be good for up to 1 week in the fridge after marinating!
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Rosemary Garlic Marinated Fava Beans
Equipment
- sauce pan
- 24 oz mason jar
Ingredients
- 2 cups dried fava beans
- 4-5 cups filtered water
- 6 cloves garlic, smashed
- 2 teaspoon dried rosemary
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 cups vinegar
Instructions
- Rinse the fava beans. Add them to a medium sized sauce pan. Add water to cover them (~4-5 cups). Turn heat on high and bring the pot to a boil.
- Once it has reached a boil, reduce the heat to low, cover with a lid, and cook 35-45 minutes. Check the beans at 30 minutes. If they are breaking apart, they are done. Over cooking the beans will make them mushy and lose their shape.
- Drain the water from the cooked beans and rinse them to remove any particles from cooking.
- Add the beans to a mason jar. Add the smashed garlic, rosemary, and salt.
- Pour the vinegar in to cover the beans by ~½ inch. This is about 1-2 cups of vinegar.
- Cover with a tight fitting lid and store in the fridge.
- Marinate fava beans for 1-3 days in the fridge (the longer they go, the stronger the flavor!). They will be good for up to 1 week in the fridge after marinating!
Maria
What a genius idea! My Italian grandpa always gets fava beans this time of year! It’s a tradition 🙂
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Oh my gosh really?! I once tried them from a pouch and I couldn't find them again so I had to make them! I had no idea it was an Italian thing 😀
Sandra
How long should the fava beans marinate before they are eaten? Also how long do they keep in the refrigerator?
Rosemary
1-3 days for marinating (the longer they go, the stronger the flavor!). Then, store in the fridge up to a week!
Anne
These were so good! I soaked them for about 4 days and wow what an amazing flavor and simple instructions!
Connie Bailey
I ordered whole, dried fava beans online but they came with the skins on. I have never cooked favas before. Can you tell me how to use your recipe with skin on favas?
Rosemary
oh no! Are they still in the long green pods? If the beans are in the pods still, just go to youtube and type "how to remove fava beans from pods"
If it's just the very thin skin on the bean itself that is okay! That gives you a lot of flavor. But if the thin skin around the bean bothers you, you can pinch the skins off after you boil the beans before adding them to the jar for marinating.