This week, JP tells me Glade Road Growing's bag will contain dill. While it's too late in the season potatoes or cukes--two of my favorites with fresh dill--the herb is used as a common ingredient in Persian cooking. You can combine it with rice or try my adaptation of Sanam Lamborn's recipe for Lima Bean Kuku, which is she describes as a Persian version of a frittata or quiche.
Since pomegranates are in season, you might want to pair this with a Persian salad consisting of salad greens topped with pomegranate sees, walnuts and feta, with a dressing made of pomegranate juice or molasses, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, honey, salt and pepper.
Lamborn's recipe, shown, serves four and is cooked in a non-stick skillet. I don't like non-stick skillets, so I bake mine in the oven. For a more ornate version served by chef at the Obama White House, see this New York Times recipe.
Serves 6
Ingredients:
1 pound of lima beans (frozen or fresh)
1 medium onion peeled and diced
6 garlic cloves, smashed, peeled and finely chopped
1 tablespoon butter
6 duck or chicken eggs
1 ½ teaspoons coarse sea salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper1 bunch of fresh dill, washed and roughly chopped
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon of lemon juice
1 tablespoon rice flour
1/4 extra virgin olive oil
1. Add lima beans to salted boiling water and wait for water to return to a boil. Then turn down heat and simmer until tender.
2. Heat cast iron skillet until a drop of water evaporates and turn down to medium low heat. Melt butter and coat pan. Sauté until translucent, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and cook until both are golden in color. Cool to room temperature.
3. Heat oven to 400 degrees and line a 9-x-12-inch baking dish with parchment paper.
4. Crack eggs in a mixing bowl and pierce yolks with a fork. Add salt, pepper, rice flour and baking soda and whisk together. Fold in onions, garlic lima beans and lemon juice.
5. Brush prepared baking dish with 1/4 cup oil. This may look like a lot, but it gets absorbed into the batter. Add batter, smoothing out the top and pushing it to the sides. Bake until center is set, about 20 minutes, and transfer to a cooling rack.
6. Cut into 6 equal pieces. Serve hot or room temperature, with pita and yogurt, if desired.
