Tag: Kidney beans

  • Bean Salad Recipe

    Bean Salad Recipe

    Bean Salad

    Prepared South Asian style quick and healthy Bean Salad with tasty dressing. The basic salad features boiled red beans. However, coriander leaves, sweet corn, tomato, onion adds more taste to the salad. And yes, lemon juice and hot sauce’s dressing will give it a sour & spicy kick

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    Prep Time:10 minutes

    Cook Time:10 minutes

    Servings: 6

    Ingredients

    For Bean Salad:

    • 1 cup kidney beans, boiled
    • 1 cup corn kernels, boiled
    • 1 onion, chopped
    • 2 tomatoes, chopped
    • 2 green chilies, chopped
    • 3 tbsp fresh coriander leaves, chopped
    • 1/4 tsp black pepper
    • salt to taste

    For Salad Dressing:

    • 4 tbsp olive oil
    • 3 tbsp lemon juice
    • 1 tbsp hot sauce
    • 1 tsp white cumin, roasted & crushed
    • 1/4 tsp black pepper

     

    Directions:

    To Make Bean Salad:

    • Place kidney beans, corn kernels, onion, coriander leaves and green chilies in a large bowl.
    • Season with salt and pepper.

    To Make Salad Dressing:

    • In a bowl, add lemon juice, hot sauce, white cumin, black pepper.
    • Mix well.
    • Now slowly drizzle olive oil over it.

    To Procced:

    • Pour salad dressing over the bean salad.
    • Toss well.
    • Bean Salad is ready now.

    • Serve chilled.

     

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  • Recipe: Lobia Biryani

    Lobia Biryani

    Lobia Biryani is an easy, quick and healthy one pot meal. This is a delicious veggie biryani consists of Kidney beans layered with mint leaves, tomatoes and green chillies over boiled rice. Goes great with any kind of raita. Try this Lobia Biryani recipe and don’t forget to share your experience with us!!

    Lobia Biryani recipe
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes

    Cook Time: 1 hour

    Servings: 6

    Difficulty Level: Medium

    Ingredients

    • 1 kg boiled basmati rice,(boiled with cumin seeds and mint)
    • 1 cup lobia (kidney beans)
    • 1 cup yogurt
    • 1/2 cup oil or ghee
    • 1/2 cup tomato paste
    • 4 onions, thinly sliced
    • 1 tablespoon ginger paste
    • 1 tablespoon garlic paste
    • 2 tablespoon jayfal and jawintri powder
    • 2 tablespoon kewra essence
    • 2 green cardamom pods
    • 2 black cardamom pods
    • 1 cinnamon stick
    • 4 cloves
    • 1/2 black pepper
    • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
    • 1 teaspoon red pepper
    • 1 teaspoon food colour
    • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
    • salt to taste

    For Layers on Rice:

    • 1/2 cup mint leaves
    • 8 green chillies, thinly sliced
    • 2 lemon slices
    • 1/2 cup tomato slices

    Directions:

    Step 1

    Fry onion in oil ,put garlic and ginger paste in it.

    Step 2

    Then put all ingredients of garam masala with tomato paste and yogurt, then put lobia (kidney beans) it with high quantity of water for tenderizing it.

    Step 3

    After that when lobia is also absorbs water keep frying it till then it leaves oil in it.

    Step 4

    In a big pan make one layer of rice ,spread lobia’s gravy on it with tomato, lemon slices and green chillies with mint leaves.

    Step 5

    Then make another layer and repeat that method as above again.

    Step 6

    Put yellow food colour on the top of the side of rice with kewra essence.

    Step 7

    Leave it for 15 minutes for taking dam. Lobia Biryani is ready to serve.

     

    • Serve with fresh salad or raita.

     

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  • Citrus Kidney Bean Salad Recipe

     Citrus Kidney Bean Salad

    A quick and easy Citrus Kidney Bean Salad recipe with colourful veggies and tangy dressing. This is SO delicious!

    This Citrus Kidney Bean Salad recipe was given to me by a friend I had in college. I put this together after my CT scan because I wanted to eat something high in antioxidants and citrus (for its antibacterial properties). What I ended up was a salad SO tasty, I just had to share it here.

    It is the best bean salad I have ever tasted, and I love it because you can experiment with the ingredients and still have a mouth-watering side dish.

    Citrus Kidney Bean Salad Recipe
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    I’m sure that even the pickiest bean hating eater will love this dish. This is my new favorite and I can’t wait to go and make some more. The flavors are mellow, so this would be a good bean salad recipe for vegetarian kids.Try this Citrus Kidney Bean Salad recipe, I hope you like it!

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    • 1 cup boiled kidney beans
    • 1 cup shredded cabbage
    • 1 onion,thinly sliced
    • 1 cucumber, thinly sliced
    • 1 green pepper, thinly sliced
    • 1 tomato, thinly sliced
    • 1 carrot, thinly sliced
    • 1 teaspon lemon zest

    For Salad Dressing:

    • 2 tablespoon orange juice
    • 1 tablespon tomato ketchup (optional)
    • 1 teaspon olive oil
    • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
    • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
    • salt to taste

    For Garnising:

    • Orange slices
    • fresh parsley, chopped

    [/tab] [tab]Yield: 6 servings

    Amount per Serving ( 1 serving = 3/4 cup)

    • Calories: 168
    • Fat: 3.5 g
    • Protein: 9 g
    • Fiber: 8 g

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    Directions:

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    Step 1

    Heat olive oil in a pan. Sauté onion for 2 minutes or just until soft.

    Step 2

    Set aside and let it cool.

    Step 3

    Place beans, tomato, cucumber, green pepper,cabbage, onion and carrot in a large bowl.

    Step 4

    In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, orange juice, ketchup, salt and pepper

     Step 5

    Pour salad dressing over the bean salad.

    Step 6

    Toss to coat evenly.

    Step 7

    Stir in the lemon zest.

    Step 8

    Adjust the seasoning and dish it out.

    Step 9  

    Garnish with Orange slices and parsley.Delicious Citrus Kidney Bean Salad is ready to serve.

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