Haricot d’Espagne

Sliced on the bias, boiled hard, buttered while steaming.

Fat and smoke fill a bean that is mostly fibre and water.

The traditional bean herb; thyme-ish phenols land on the grass.

Cook them in the ham liquor and skip the salt entirely.

Coarse beans need a strong allium or they read as lawn.

Braise long: acid softens fibre that blanching never will.

Sharp pickle liquor is what the glut ends up in anyway.

Nutty solids against a bean that tastes flatly of green hexanal.

Salt-cured fish is the fastest umami transplant for a bland pod.

Coarse-cracked, it mimics the fibre and hides the squeak.