Ingredient
Borlotti bean
Cooked borlotti, as they come from a tin. The cranberry speckling that makes them beautiful raw cooks out to plain brown, so recipes that care about the look call for them fresh in the pod.
- Sourcing
- Italian delis sell them tinned and in jars; jarred beans are firmer and better but cost more. Fresh in the pod appear briefly in late summer.
- Varieties
- Tinned, Jarred, Fresh in pod, Dried
- Quality cues
- Whole beans with skins intact and a clear rather than cloudy liquid.
- Substitutions
- Cannellini bean, Pinto bean, Butter bean
- Storage
- Out of the tin into a sealed container once open.
- Shelf life
- Tinned years unopened; 3-4 days refrigerated once opened
Nutrition
Per 100 g
- Calories
- 83 kcal
- Protein
- 5.5 g
- Fat
- 0.3 g
- Carbs
- 15.1 g
- Fibre
- 6.3 g
- Sugars
- — g
- Sodium
- 332 mg
From USDA FoodData Central (#173737). Raw, edible portion.