Fennel beans ingredients are fava beans, which is a folk idle food.

Fennel beans are a famous traditional snack in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Folk fennel beans are soft and fresh, with a strong flavor. Fennel beans skin wrinkled greenish-yellow, bean meat cooked and not rotten, soft and not rotten, chewing up the mouth, five fragrant, salty and through the fresh, slightly sweet aftertaste. Folk believe that fennel beans "into the belly warm stomach", the more you chew the more flavor, so there is "cinnamon cooked fennel beans, Qianyu, with the Xing good soy sauce, Cao'e shipped buds green beans, Dongguan please good cooking hand, chewing tough tangled, eat thumping the mouth of the glutinous soft," the folk song.

Mr. Lu Xun's famous novel "Kong Yi Ji": "The pattern of the hotel in Lu town is different from that of other places: it is a big curved counter on the street, with hot water inside the cabinet, so that you can warm up the wine at any time. The workers, when they finish their work in the evening, spend four copper coins to buy a bowl of wine--this was more than twenty years ago, and the price of each bowl has risen to ten coins--and stand outside the counter, drinking it hot and taking a rest; if they are willing to spend one more coin, they can buy a dish of bamboo shoots boiled in salt or fennel beans, to make a drink with. fennel beans, for a drink ......"

Fennel beans

Fennel beans with dry broad beans as raw materials, pick off the discoloration of the worms inferior beans, soaked in water and drained. Into the pot with the right amount of water, with a rapid fire about 15 minutes. Lift the lid of the pot, see the skin of the beans around the edge of the wrinkled convex, the center of the depression, then immediately add fennel, cinnamon, salt (traditional commodities with soy sauce) and edible naphthalene, and then cook slowly over a moderate fire, so that the seasonings from the skin penetrate into the meat of the beans, to be basically dry after the water is boiled, and then removed from the fire and uncovered to cool that is complete.

Soak the fava beans and add the appropriate amount of water, the water must not be over the fava beans. Add anise, cinnamon, cumin, will eat spicy and then add some dried chili. Salt appropriate amount, than the general amount of salt to increase the amount of vegetables to taste, a little sugar.