This ancient bean is found everywhere in Italy. And you should know about it

A look at the popular bean called cicerchia.

At Chad Colby’s new restaurant Antico, the pastas are remarkable and the ice cream possibly the best in Los Angeles.

Colby brought beans home from Italy, planted a dozen of them in his home kitchen garden, then waited. The yield from 12 plants allowed for cicerchia to be on the menu at Antico for only a few shifts. “They were sweet, like peas,” Colby said. “And the tendrils and flowers were exceptional.” When Bloomfield makes a pot of cicerchia, she takes a minimalist approach, cooking them in water instead of broth, seasoning them with salt as they cool down, then finishing them off with a touch of olive oil. “It’s nice to have an unadulterated pure bean flavor,” she said.I did the best I could to translate a recipe I found on the back of one of the cicerchia packets that I’d tucked into my suitcase on a recent trip to Umbria.

Currently, cicerchia is so popular in Italy, you can find it on the shelves of any supermarket. Though the cicerchia craze hasn’t hit Los Angeles yet, ask for it at Italian specialty shops and most will order it special from their regular import purveyor.

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