How to Use fava bean in a Sentence

fava bean

noun
  • The roots of the fava bean plants add nitrogen to the soil.
    Sunset Magazine, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Two pounds of fava bean pods will yield about 2 cups of shelled beans.
    Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Drop your fava beans into the briny brew, cook for one minute, and drain.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Start with about 5 pounds of fava beans in pods (any less is not worth all the trouble).
    Ben Mims, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
  • The children fished for tadpoles in the stone pond while the rest of us snacked on fava beans and made small talk.
    Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
  • At this time of year, my favorite thing to eat is: fava beans.
    Charlotte Druckman, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • To recreate the sausage texture, the R&D team used a mixture of peas, fava beans, and rice.
    Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Add the green beans, peas, or fava beans with the asparagus.
    Jill Gibson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • About 2 minutes before the pasta is done, add the fava beans to the water.
    Jessica Battilana, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
  • The second is that this fava has nothing to do with fava beans.
    Luke Pyenson, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The fava beans sort of mimic the shape of the orecchiette too, nestling neatly in the pasta’s curves as if they’re meant to be there.
    Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • It’s products are made from six types of legumes — peas, chickpeas, lentils, soy, fava beans and navy beans.
    cleveland, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Fava Beans As a legume, fava beans fix nitrogen in the soil.
    Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • All this to say, fava beans here in California are like those peas in my home state.
    Ben Mims, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
  • Cook fava beans 5 minutes, until the outer shell puffs and pulls away from bean.
    Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The drinks are simple (get a straight shot) and there's no food save for toasted peanuts and fava beans sold from a roving snack vendor.
    Scarlett Lindeman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Then there were artichokes and fava beans, which were in season.
    Frank Bruni Laura May Todd, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • On it's own, pecorino goes great with fava beans and salame felino.
    Micaela English, Town & Country, 8 Nov. 2017
  • The old Italian men pass their mornings near the top of the hill, tending thick grapevines and rows of fava beans, smoking crumbling Toscano cigars, staying out of the house.
    Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • The product's sauce is made from fava bean protein and coconut oil powder.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The gluten-free and dairy-free bar stood out to our experts for its custom protein blend of fava bean protein and brown rice protein.
    Stefani Sassos, M.s., R.d.n., C.s.o., Good Housekeeping, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Most of us think only of the New World beans when the topic of beans arises, but the Old World had fava beans, chickpeas (garbanzos), lentils, peas, and lupin beans.
    Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Frugal islanders keep gardens of wild spinach and fava beans, and catch rabbits.
    Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The fava bean and farro soup was genially seasoned with herbs.
    Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Certain foods, including rhubarb, fava beans, and aloe, could be to blame, as all can tint your pee a darker color.
    Kathleen Felton, Health, 26 May 2023
  • Grilled quail, stuffed with merguez sausage and pain de mais, gets an ode-to-spring medley of fava beans, asparagus and morel mushrooms (chanterelles by now).
    Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • One man set up a makeshift stand selling fava beans and falafel — without bread — but most families didn’t have money for that.
    Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • For the dinner, the women chose to make the fava bean dish because there was an abundance of the verdant legumes in Walcot’s garden, where the berries for the crostata were also grown.
    New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • In Canada, Kehrig reports his farmers are testing fava beans and canola seeds.
    Larissa Zimberoff, Time, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In a post on its website, the grocery chain explained that the mix is made with ground fava beans, chickpeas, garlic, onion, and spices like cumin and coriander.
    Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2018

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