Piekny Jas runner bean

(Phaseolus coccineus)

Enormous white seeds – 65 beans per cup! Despite their size, they cook quickly, have a smooth texture and are delicious. They are also good as shelly beans, when the seeds are full-sized but the pods are still yellow or light green; cook like dry beans without the need to soak. Our beans are descendants of the Fasola Piękny Jaś z Doliny Dunajca, runner beans grown in the Dujanec river valley in southern Poland which are boarded in the Slow Food Ark of Taste; we shorten the name to indicate that ours are grown in Canada, not Poland. Also called ‘Handsome Johnny’.