Bean Salad

What is this delightful little green bean you ask? FAVA Bean!

 I didn't know what they were when I bought them, but I was curious and jumped in with both feet and bought a 1/4 pound (100 grams).  Upon inspection I noticed that there seemed to be a soft shell encasing the bean.  Having never bought fresh fava beans and at the time not even sure what they were, I was absolutely fascinated.  Do I peel them and then boil them? Are they tasty like fresh uncooked peas? Do I boil them in the shell?  After some consideration (but no thought to looking all this up on the internet, where all answers can certainly be found) I boldly decided to boil with shell on. I boiled for about 7 minutes and then began to peel them.

Actually you just "pop" them out the the shell, a rather fun job.  I then mixed them up with a can of large white beans and a can of small black beans.  Before serving I added halved cherry tomatoes, feta cheese,  chopped avocado and a fresh dressing of lime, cider vinegar, cilantro, salt and pepper.  Which is not shown here.  After I took this picture of the beans in the bowl I then added the above mentioned ingredients, sat down and ate it. After completing the delicious meal I realized I neglected to take a picture of the finished product.  You have to trust me it was very pretty and very tasty.