Linguine
con fave fresche
Linguine with fresh fava beans
This recipe was presented as a specialty from Lazio on the Prova del Cuoco tv-show, but I’m pretty sure every household in the south of Italy makes similar preparations of linguine with fava beans.
For instance, Puglians have an almost passionate relationship with fava beans. All summer long women can be seen sitting on their front steps, shelling fava beans and at Easter dinner in a farmhouse restaurant I saw an elderly women grab a plate of fava mash from the hands of her grandchild and cradle it like a baby. Fava is king and fit to be hailed with wreaths of pasta and a powdering of pecorino as in this version of Linguine with fava beans copied from memory of a lunchtime tv-show called La Prova del Cuoco.
With simple dishes like this it all comes down to the quality of the ingredients.
Ingredients
500 g fresh linguine pasta
250 g fresh fava beans
50 g butter
4 tbsp grated pecorino (parmasan og Grana Padano can be used instead)
Mmm, so simple but this must taste delicious. We’re always on the lookout for other recipes to follow that contain fava beans so will definitely be trying this once the fresh beans appear again on the local markets here. We’re lucky to have Turkish food but we do miss Italian food, too. :)
Julia
It’s the same for me – just the other way round. Spoiled people never can get enough:)