Beans cooking as well as some skillet potatoes!
We eat a lot of beans, so I try to vary the kinds of beans I make. I try to keep several different kinds of beans cooked and ready to heat in my freezer.
We just tried out a new to us bean, adzuki beans. They are smaller than most beans I prepare, which makes them quicker to cook. They only take about 45 minutes to an hour to cook, after they have been soaked.
Before I bought them, I had read that they are easier to digest than most beans. That really interested me a lot. I would eat beans every day if I could, but they can "ahem" cause digestive distress if I eat them that often. I am hoping this bean will make it possible for me to eat beans even more often.
Husband's note: Wikipedia reports the following nutritional information about adzuki beans. 1 cup of cooked beans provides 4.6 mg of Iron, 119.6 mg of magnesium, 1.223 g of potassium, 4.0 mg of zinc.
The name adzuki is a transliteration of the native Japanese name. Roughly translated as "small bean", its counterpart "large bean" being the soybean.
I tried hard to put in some bean jokes, but was sternly told not to do this. But I was told I could
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Were these beans easier to digest?
ReplyDeleteIt was hard to tell if it was my imagination or reality, but they did seem easier to digest. I will definitely put them in our bean rotation.
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