SAINT ESPRIT red-eyed beans Origin Lot et Garonne BIOS - DRY

Holy Spirit beans with red eyes, kidney-shaped, marked with a wine-red stain at the navel, grown in Lot-et-Garonne.     

Red-eyed Holy Spirit: a variety of white kidney-shaped bean marked with a wine-red spot at the navel (red when the bean is still green). It is also called the good sister's navel or the nun's navel. These religious names would come from the shape of his task, in the form of a cross.     

Ancient beans from Lot et Garonne

Leave your dried beans to soak in a large volume of water overnight. Rinse them, change the water and start cooking in cold water. Cook for 45 minutes. Reheat or mix cold in a salad made up of seeds, shoots, herbs, raw vegetables, etc.