Molleboon

Mollebons

The Molleboon (German for "pan bean") is known in the Netherlands as a typical Groninger treat. It is a roasted broad bean . Roasting is done in two ways:

1. The beans are roasted in a mole , a kind of wok. It is not surprising that such a deep pan has been used to prepare Molleboon since the earliest times, as the recipe probably comes from early Dutch India .
2. The baker lets the beans bake in the oven next to the bread, similar to roasting peanuts .

Mollebons have a slightly sweet taste. Nowadays they are hardly sold anymore. They are only available from local butchers or nut dealers and from the Groningen tourist information office. Outside of Groningen, they can also be bought on the Diengplateau near Wonosobo (Central Java ), where they are touted as a local specialty. They are also still available in the fortified town of Bourtange and in the Dutch Open Air Museum in Arnhem .

Molleboon as a nickname

The inhabitants of the city of Groningen are also called Molleboon . This probably has to do with the habit of voting on beans in the parish council. If you were in favor of a proposal, you put a white bean in a sack, if you were against it, you would put a black bean. At the end the beans were counted. The Groninger Museum still has some beans reproduced in clay.

Web links

• Paardeboon, paardenboon en molleboon (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Section: "Grunneger molleboon (traditioneel Groninger streekprodukt) ". Dutch, accessed March 28, 2011.