Fried beans: description and cooking methods

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

In Russia, beans are rarely used in cooking. These fruits are especially popular in America and Asian countries. Many delicious and he althy dishes have been prepared from them for a long time. Beans can be boiled, stewed and even canned. In this sense, hostesses have a lot of choice. But most of them still prefer fried beans. In this form, these fruits can be a full dinner, an excellent snack for beer and just a spicy dish for meeting guests. Each of these options is worth considering separately.

Simple and delicious

While waiting for guests, every housewife always asks the same question: what to cook for the table? After all, you want to not only feed your friends, but also surprise them with something. For this occasion, fried beans are perfect. Firstly, in our country they are cooked infrequently, and secondly, this dish is very high-calorie and nutritious. For its preparation you will need: 600 grams of fresh beans, 5 grams of s alt, leek and monosodium glutamate, 75 grams of pork fat, 10 grams of sugar and 75 milliliters of chicken broth.

Making fried beans is easy:

1. Fruit firstrinse thoroughly and then let the water drain. Food should be practically dry.
2. Heat the fat in a deep frying pan until it crackles.
3. Sprinkle beans and fry, stirring constantly.
4. Pour in the broth and add all the other ingredients according to the recipe (except for the onion).
5. Simmer covered until the beans are soft enough.
6. Add chopped green onions and shake the pan well.

Now the fried beans can be safely laid out in a deep plate and served. Guests will definitely appreciate this fragrant and very unusual dish.

Snack for beer

Beer lovers will love the original fried beans with s alt. True, it will be a little more difficult to cook them, because you will have to take care of this in advance. For work you will need: broad beans (sometimes they are also called "horse" or "fava"), vegetable oil, drinking soda, sea s alt (coarse).

The cooking process consists of several stages:

1. First, fresh fruits should be soaked in cold water for 18 hours. To make their pulp more tender, you need to add a little soda at the rate of 12 grams per glass of beans.
2. Then the fruits should be dried well. To do this, you can use napkins or a regular towel.
3. Cut each bean with a sharp knife. The gap should not be very deep.
4. Heat the oil in a frying pan, and then fry the prepared fruits in it until they become a pleasant golden hue. Doing soneed small portions. This will allow the beans to brown well on all sides.
5. Put the finished products on a plate and lightly sprinkle them with s alt.

Eat these beans better hot. Due to the contrast with cold beer, the effect of such a snack will be much stronger.

Beans in pods

In Chinese cuisine, there are many interesting dishes, the main component of which is beans. Local cooks often use young asparagus fruits in pods. Usually in cafes and restaurants they cook just such fried beans. The recipe calls for the following ingredients: 450 grams of green beans, 300 milliliters of water, a teaspoon of soy sauce and the same amount of brown sugar, 4 teaspoons of peanut butter, 1 centimeter of ginger root, and 4 fresh green onion feathers.

The dish is prepared in just 15 minutes:

1. First, in a special frying pan with a thick bottom, you need to warm up some of the oil well.
2. Put washed beans into it.
3. Add finely chopped ginger and fry for about 60 seconds.
4. Pour food with water, add sugar and mix.
5. Make the fire flame smaller and fry for another 5 minutes until the pods themselves are really soft.
6. Pour in the sauce, put the remaining oil and sprinkle everything with chopped green onions.

This dish looks very impressive and appetizing on a plate.