Purple beans

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a glass bowl filled with purple and white speckled eggplant next to a green leafy plant

You need to try this unique, delicious, and easy to grow pole bean variety! Perfectly suited for short-season cool-weather climates, this beautiful English heirloom is stunning on the vine with lavender-colored blossoms that yield early maturing pods with tan egg-shaped beans flecked in deep purple.

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a white plate topped with purple beans and veggies next to a tree in the background

Most purple vegetables lose their color when you cook them but these purple long beans stay a vivid purple. They are deeply savory and provide an earthy counterpoint to the sour roselle leaves in this salad.

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Though my family has enjoyed the bountiful harvest of Purple Hyacinth Beans I have stir-fried, they really prefer the English beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) such as “Blue Lake” that you buy fresh, frozen, or canned from the store. The cooking method to make the Purple Hyacinth Bean (Lablab purpureus) taste like an English-type bean is the same as the method I use for Chinese Long Beans, though the Hyacinth beans must be cooked for a shorter amount of time. In short, I blanch them. Purple…

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