Lupino Gigante di Vairano is a Slow Food Presidium, which indicates the very high quality of the product. Simply preserved in a solution of water and salt.
Vairano giant lupin, water, salt
The giant lupin of Vairano reaches up to 1.5 cm in diameter!
Masseria del Sesto lupins are preserved strictly in glass jars in water and salt, without any preservatives. The debittering process is still the traditional one, with soaking the dried legumes in water for 12 hours, then boiling them, then soaking them again in water and salt for 5 days, with daily rinses to eliminate the bitterness for good.
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The giant lupin of Vairano is a variety of legume that is recognised as an excellent snack to accompany an aperitif. It is recognised as a traditional agri-food product and a SlowFood Presidium product. It is called 'giant' because its seeds are larger, its shape is still round (one and a half centimetres in diameter) but its colour is a little lighter, tending towards beige.
The seeds are found in the long, flattened fruits of a plant with white flowers and dark green leaves; it flowers from mid-May to the end of June because its growth prefers very high temperatures.
In July the plants are cut and uprooted and left to dry in the field, then threshed, preferably at night or in the early hours of the morning to prevent the pods from opening; after harvesting the pods are threshed and the seeds selected.
To be eaten, they are soaked in cold water for a day, boiled for about two minutes and left in a brine solution for three days.
In the kitchen they are used as a snack, often accompanied by a good glass of wine (discover our selection of wines), but in the past they were eaten as a coffee substitute and became famous thanks to the lupin trade in Verga's "I Malavoglia". Today there are several tasty dishes based on lupins:
Benefits of the Giant Vairano Lupin
This type of lupin is rich in nutritional values:
Giant Vairano lupin 440 g jar
