Beans and Pulses 500g

All organic certified

Producer
Reigado

Locality
Coa Valley, north-eastern Portugal

Varieties

• Black-Eyes Beans
  Pale beige with a black spot. Great source of calcium and Vitamin A, as well as the protein that comes with all beans.

• Catarino Beans
  Somewhere between a haricot and a pinto

• Chickpeas
  Pale yellow round peas, the staple ingredient in falafel and hummus

• Lindinho Beans
  Literally ‘pretty’ bean in Portuguese

• Pinto Beans
  The original refried bean. pale pink and speckled. Great source of phosphorus and manganese, and very high in fibre.

Preparation
All should be soaked for 8 hours and then boiled with good quality sea salt for 20 minutes.

Best before
All these beans will last many years whilst dried.
However, WARNING: they are from a very rustic, low intervention farm so we advise freezing the dried beans for 24 hours before storing.

Voyage
Sailed from Porto to London, St Katharine Docks onboard De Tukker, summer 2023