What is your favorite legume?

Question

Do you have a favorite legume? What is it? How do you prepare it? How often do you eat it? Does it make you gassy?

Answer 1

Ingredients for 16 Bean Soup Recipe
1 package 16 Bean Soup mix
3 bay leaves
1 tablespoon crushed oregano
2 cans no-fat chicken stock
Additional water to cover
3 stalks celery, chopped
3 carrots, diced
1 large onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, sliced
1 pound turkey Italian sausage, sliced
2 cans stewed (or diced) tomatoes
Instructions
Combine first 5 ingredients (liquid should cover mixture by 1"-2") in crock pot.
Cook on high for 2 hours.
Add remaining ingredients and shift cooker to low and cook for additional 3 hours.
For more zing, add cayenne or crushed red pepper when adding second set of ingredients. Serve as complete meal or over rice. Freezes well.

Ingredients for Legume And Vegetable Soup Recipe
¼ cup dry Lima beans
2 tablespoons green split peas
1 cup chopped carrots
1 cup chopped cabbage
2 tablespoons chopped celery
¼ cup chopped turnips
2 tablespoons okra (fresh or canned)
1 small onion, chopped
¼ cup chopped parsley
2 quarts water
¼ cup unroasted peanut butter or very finely chopped raw peanuts
1 tablespoon salt
Instructions
Instead of the raw peanuts or peanut butter, two tablespoons nut soup stock or one tablespoon vegex may be used.
If these are used, the beans and peas may be omitted.
Wash the beans and peas and put them to cook in the cold water.
Prepare the vegetables and put them, except the parsley, to cook with the peas and beans.
Boil slowly five hours.
At the end of four hours' cooking add the chopped peanuts or the peanut butter thinned with hot water.
After another hour's cooking add the salt, chopped parsley, and boiling water to replace what has boiled away.
Serve with croutons.

Answer 2

Early Peas, preapared in a butter sauce, with Tiny Onions

Answer 3

My favorite by far are ARTICHOKES

Boiled until outer leaves pull of easily, then eaten with garlic butter lightly salted. I eat them as much as I can during their season, and no they don't give me gas.

Answer 4

I love raw peas still in the pod. I think there called snap peas.

Answer 5

snap peas...great when eaten with other salad mixes

Answer 6

un pomme de terre lol i like them in any form and any way