Flat bean
Flat beans, also known as helda beans, romano beans and "gavar fhali" in some Indian states is a vegetable and a type of bean with a wide, flat edible pod.
Flat beans are normally cooked and served in their pods, as green beans. Like many other types of bean (see broad bean for example) they can also be dehusked or shelled and the small white kernels dried and stored, but there is no incentive to grow them for this purpose as higher-yielding bean varieties are available.
Modern flat bean varieties picked while young are stringless. Older varieties or beans allowed to ripen on the vine may contain strings.
External links
- http://www.thinkvegetables.co.uk/vegetable.asp?VegetableID=9
- http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/bp_legumev.html
- http://www.botanical-online.com/english/bean_types.htm
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