Maltese Broad Bean Paste Bigilla Recipe

Maltese Broad Bean Paste Bigilla

From ms_isabelle 15 years ago

Bigilla is a Maltese snack that used to be sold during the cold, damp winter months. The snack warms the heart.

If you're using dried broad beans, you must first soak them for two days in salted water with the bicarbonate of soda mixed in. The water must be changed after the first day. This will soften the beans.
After the second day, cook the beans in fresh water.
Bring the water to a boil and let simmer until the beans are cooked. Drain and mince the beans.
Mix in the olive oil, parsley and crushed garlic and make into a paste.
For best taste, serve hot.

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bertiebrooke 14 years ago
I came home with some broad beans from the allotment and my wife said "Broad beans with quiche?" (She is duty cook tonight). I said how about quiche with toast and broad bean pesto? Following your recipe (more or less),I chopped up 3 garlic cloves , about 250 gms of broad beans which were boiled for 6 minutes and drained, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, salt, ground black pepper and the juice of half a lemon.
Out with the hand blender and the whole lot was pulverised into a sort of green bean mush.
We are having it with the quiche and diagonal slivers of olive oil soaked and fried French bread rolls. Delicious!
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tornatna 14 years ago
can the broad beans be the frozen ones - will the outcome be the same
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" It was excellent "
elgab89 ate it and said...
Very nice, like a pesto and beans!
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22566 15 years ago
Different! Thank-you

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