Heera Butter Beans 500g

Fresh mochai shelled on the verandah in Thai month, thumbnails green by lunchtime.

• What: Dried butter beans, large and flat
• Pack: 500 g
• Brand: Heera, from P&B (Foods) Ltd, Bradford
• Best for: Kurma, kuzhambu, tomato gravies, salads

What it is

Heera is the main brand of P&B (Foods) Ltd, a Bradford-based company that calls itself one of the largest independent wholesale distributors of Asian foods in Britain and Europe. Butter beans are large, flat, creamy-white dried beans, the big variety of the lima bean.

Soaked and cooked, they turn soft and buttery inside but keep their shape, so they sit well in a coconut kurma, a tamarind kuzhambu or a tomato gravy. Choosing between beans? Butter beans for a big, soft bean; Natures Lima Beans (Mochai Payaru) for the smaller Tamil mochai; Heera Red Kidney Beans 2kg for rajma.

Tip: Cook the whole bag at once and freeze it in portions with a little cooking water. It goes straight into a kurma on a weeknight.

Goes well with: Heera Desiccated Coconut Fine, Heera Tamarind, 777 Garam Masala

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