Beans are suitable for people who want to lose weight and do not eat animal foods. Legumes satisfy hunger for a long time. Knowing a few simple recipes, you can make delicious and healthy bean dishes.
Bean soup
For the soup, use a glass of any beans, the color doesn't matter. Sort it out, removing bad fruit, and soak in water overnight. The next day, in the morning, fold the beans into a sieve, transfer to a saucepan and pour 1 liter of clean liquid. Put on the highest heat, when the water boils, turn the stove to minimum. Cut 2 potatoes into cubes and add to the beans after 50 minutes.
Season the soup to taste. Chop the onion, carrots and sauté the vegetables in 15 g of melted butter. When the potatoes are tender, add the stews and 15 ml of tomato paste to the saucepan. Raise the heat, remove the soup after boiling the liquid. Pour into bowls, sprinkle with chopped herbs and season with a spoonful of sour cream. After cooling down, put the remaining stew in the refrigerator.
Bean cutlets
Bean cutlets taste like meat cutlets. To prepare them, pour a glass of beans with water and leave overnight. Change the liquid in the morning and cook the legumes until tender. During this time, soak 80 g of white bread in warm water. In a blender bowl, put boiled beans, bread squeezed out of excess liquid, an onion cut into 4 parts, an egg, 2 cloves of garlic, spices to taste and sprigs of herbs.
Grind the ingredients into minced meat, add sifted flour so that the mass does not fall apart. Put the formed cutlets in a frying pan hot with oil. When they are brown on one side, turn over to the other and fry until tender. Store leftover patties in the refrigerator.
Bean sauce
You can make the sauce from purchased canned white beans in your own juice or boiled at home. Put the legumes in a sieve, when the liquid drains, transfer it to a blender, add 300 g of sunflower oil, 7 g of ready-made mustard, 4 g of salt and sugar, 20 ml of lemon juice. Grind into a homogeneous thick mass. Taste the sauce and add spices as needed. Refrigerate and serve chilled with various meals.
Lobio
Soak 500 grams of red beans in plenty of water overnight. Change the liquid in the morning and put the pot on the fire. After 1 hour 45 minutes, add salt and cook for another 5 minutes. Cut the onion and small sweet pepper into small cubes and grate the carrots. Fry vegetables in hot fat until soft. Add 50 g of ground walnuts and 20 ml of tomato paste. After a minute, lay out the finished beans, chopped clove of garlic, sprinkle the dish with spices and aromatic herbs to taste. Remove the lobio from the heat after 5 minutes.
Beans are cooked for a long time, to make it easier for yourself, always soak them overnight. Prepare legumes in advance, you can make many different goodies from such an ingredient.
