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um. It is remotely possible that some of you may remember that I am pretty sure I once voiced (well. in text) a question about whether a type of val dal that is not a lima is in fact the dry bean of Dolichos lablab Lablab purpureus, known fresh or ornamentally as hyacinth bean.
well, a few days ago while looking up what varieties of refried bean Goya (much as I disagree with them about certain powerful people...) makes, I happened to click over onto their varieties of ordinary canned beans, and lo and behold, what happened to catch my eye but something called "Green Rock Beans"? aka Feijão Pedra... which I thought was also the phrasing on a package of dried beans in the Portuguese section (ish. technically it may have been the Spain section but I could tell it was labeled in Portuguese) that I noted resembled the val dal in question.
What do these look like? Well, behold a blog post that informed me that Cape Verde, in Africa, has a feijoada, which is made with rock beans(!!!!!) You can see pictures of the dry beans being soaked there if you scroll down a bit.
Inspired by this, albeit obliquely, I tracked down the Portuguese Wikipedia page on the Lablab botanical genus and, YES, it says there that they are known as feijão pedra!
...not to mention that the English language article has I think improved from when I posed that question, and its note that hyacinth bean is known as val papdi in Maharashtra is probably suggestive in itself. (this is directly beside the article's mention of the name "surti papdi" in Gujarat, and I believe that is a name I've seen on frozen pods at the Indian grocery)
well, a few days ago while looking up what varieties of refried bean Goya (much as I disagree with them about certain powerful people...) makes, I happened to click over onto their varieties of ordinary canned beans, and lo and behold, what happened to catch my eye but something called "Green Rock Beans"? aka Feijão Pedra... which I thought was also the phrasing on a package of dried beans in the Portuguese section (ish. technically it may have been the Spain section but I could tell it was labeled in Portuguese) that I noted resembled the val dal in question.
What do these look like? Well, behold a blog post that informed me that Cape Verde, in Africa, has a feijoada, which is made with rock beans(!!!!!) You can see pictures of the dry beans being soaked there if you scroll down a bit.
Inspired by this, albeit obliquely, I tracked down the Portuguese Wikipedia page on the Lablab botanical genus and, YES, it says there that they are known as feijão pedra!
...not to mention that the English language article has I think improved from when I posed that question, and its note that hyacinth bean is known as val papdi in Maharashtra is probably suggestive in itself. (this is directly beside the article's mention of the name "surti papdi" in Gujarat, and I believe that is a name I've seen on frozen pods at the Indian grocery)
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