Monika's Rare Pulse Club
Step beyond the everyday and discover a new side of Spanish cooking through Monika’s Rare Pulse Club. Each edition brings together exceptional heirloom varieties from small Spanish growers, selected for their extraordinary flavour, texture and regional character. Carefully sourced in limited quantities across Spain, these are pulses with a real sense of place, the kind rarely found outside their local communities.
This box celebrates some of Spain’s most distinctive cooking traditions, from the rich, velvety garrofón used in Valencian paella to delicate Canary Island yellow beans and buttery chickpeas from Andalucía. Designed to inspire slower, more thoughtful cooking, this collection makes working with dried pulses feel approachable, rewarding and deeply delicious.
Each box includes:
1 x 400g Garrofón Beans from Valencia
1 x 400g Alubia Amarilla Canaria from Salamanca
1 x 400g Lechoso de Escacena chickpeas from Andalucia
A polished steel paella pan for two people
Three profile cards, one for each variety
A recipe booklet featuring a traditional Paella Valenciana from Jenny Chandler and two modern vegetarian dishes from Anna Jones.
For this edition, we have collaborated with two celebrated voices in modern food writing: Jenny Chandler and Anna Jones. Their recipes are designed to bring out the unique qualities of each pulse variety, with thoughtful, seasonal cooking that celebrates texture, depth and simplicity in equal measure.
Quotes:
“I’ve been cooking with Brindisa beans for over 20 years, and they are unmatched in their quality and flavour. It can be hard to get hold of exciting varieties of beans, so I am thrilled about the Rare Pulse Club - a chance to try new beans handpicked by Monika.”
Anna Jones – cook, writer, the voice of modern vegetarian cooking
“Paella is so often misunderstood by tourists and outsiders, when it’s absolutely loaded with piles of fish, meat and even, shock horror, chorizo. The humble origins of the Valenciano dish lay with the farm workers cooking a one-pan-meal using the readily available, locally grown rice and beans, just flavouring them with herbs and whatever was available in the way of chicken, rabbit or snails. Seafood paellas evolved later but have always focused on exquisitely delicious rice rather than extravagant quantities of shellfish”.
Jenny Chandler – food writer