I have a new doctor who insists on a heart-healthy diet for me. So I concocted this today:
A friend brought by an African bean dish this week to treat my husband, and he said it was incredible. Of course, I needed to demonstrate that I dominate beans even better.
I soaked the beans in water with cilantro and cumin seeds. On the next day I cooked them with bay leaf and a bit of salt.
As they cooked, I shredded some Napa cabbage and Lacinato kale very thinly. I should have used a lot more, as I now realize, because they really cooked down. I wilted the greens with lots of crushed garlic, fresh ginger, lemon zest, a splash of white wine, and some cilantro chutney. Cilantro haters, stand down! We are all crazy about cilantro around here.
I had three air fried chicken strips left from Klara’s breakfast, so I sliced them up, too. Added beans to the greens and thickened it all up with nutritional yeast.
The dish ended up phenomenal. The friend’s African beans have been relegated to second place.
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Does the person who downvoted hate beans or something? I’m really curious.
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I think you just have an automatic-downvote bot.
You’ll know you’ve really made it when all your most anodyne posts get *multiple* inexplicable downvotes… but always the same number!
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–right now, your negbot population seems to be limited to three or four, and I suspect that’s just one person laboriously signing into multiple handles one after another just for the privilege of clicking the thumbs-down more than once. 😀
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Clarissa
LOL, although I hate cilantro with the heat of a thousand suns, it wasn’t me ;-D
btw, when soaking the beans do you use whole or ground cumin?
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Whole cumin. I really love cumin.
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Clarissa
Love it too, but was taught to always heat the seeds until flagrant, then cool and grind. The chef that was my source was definitely Scots. Was he just being cheap, or are you being a boisterous Ukrainian ;-D
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(imagines flagrant cumin seeds)
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Methylethyl
Oh, I do far sneakier things than that, like adding high quality dark chocolate in my Chili ;-D
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This looks – and sounds – very yummy, amd it most certainly tastes delicious, but why the chicken with the beans? I’d go for beans and greens OR chicken and greens, unless it’s because of you love for Mexican cuisine…
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Honestly, I just needed to use the chicken before it went dry. But I agree that it’s very unnecessary in this recipe.
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I have been eating various bean concoctions fro the past 3-4 years. Just add anything you want to the bean base, it is all good. I started this eating habit hoping it would be good to reduce the number and severity of psoriasis flares. That has somewhat been true but it has also resulted in my having ‘normal’ blood pressure and chloesterol numbers. My health provider says ‘keep doing what you are doing’.
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