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Fava (φάβα), in Greek cuisine, is a traditional dish made of split peas, typically yellow ones (and not, in spite of the name, of fava beans). They are cooked with chopped onion and mashed together with seasonings, garlic, lemon juice and oil into a thick, creamy paste.
In the world of legumes, fava beans stand out. They are the oldest variety; there's evidence of fava bean cultivation as long as 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. They stand out visually ...
The Greek cooking method plaki [12] is where food is baked or roasted on a roasting tin in the oven with extra virgin olive oil, tomatoes, vegetables, and herbs, with the well-known gigantes beans plaki and fish plaki.
The Greek cooking method plaki [175] is food on a roasting tin that is baked or roasted in the oven with extra virgin olive oil, tomatoes, vegetables, and herbs, with the well-known gigantes beans plaki and fish plaki. Marides tiganites, [176] [177] small-sized whitebait fish (spicara smaris) that are lightly dusted with flour, then fried.
Ful medames (Arabic: فول مدمس, fūl midammis IPA: [fuːl meˈdammes]; other spellings include ful mudammas and foule mudammes, in Coptic: ⲫⲉⲗ phel or fel), or simply fūl, is a stew of cooked fava beans served with olive oil, cumin, and optionally with chopped parsley, garlic, onion, lemon juice, chili pepper and other vegetables, herbs, and spices. [3]
The peas are dried and the dull-coloured outer skin of the pea removed, then split in half by hand or by machine at the natural split in the seed's cotyledon. There are green and yellow varieties of split pea. Gregor Mendel studied the inheritance of seed colour in peas; the green phenotype is recessive to the yellow one
Lathyrus clymenum - MHNT. Lathyrus clymenum, also called Spanish vetchling, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mediterranean.The seeds are used to prepare a Greek dish called fava santorinis.
The arrival of Greek refugees from Asia Minor and Constantinople in the early 20th century brought also Anatolian and Constantinopolitan elements in the cuisine of the region. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Some current specialties are trahanas with crackling, filo -based pies (cheese, leek, spinach) and meat plates (such as pork, wild boar and buffalo ).