Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: crisp fried broad beans with split brown skins and golden kernels.

Broad beans

蚕豆Cándòu

The edible seeds of Vicia faba, also called fava beans.

Type
Legumes

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Fresh beans are shelled from long green pods. The crisp beans served with Hunyuan liangfen are a prepared form, not fresh beans in their pods.

In the kitchen

Served crisp with Hunyuan liangfen.

Different from peas and soybeans.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有蚕豆吗?

Does this dish contain Broad beans?

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