Description
Use:
- Side dish - mix the cooked adzuki beans with a fried onion and garlic, add herbs and sour cream
- Salad - cooked and cooled adzuki beans taste great with fresh vegetables
- Soups -when cooking the adzuki beans, just add vegetables such as carrot or onion and season at the end
- Adzuki beans risotto - take a look at the recipe that we have prepared for you
- Mixed vegetables - add the cooked adzuki beans to fried onion, carrot and cabbage, add a little bit of water, season with pepper and cumin, you can also use ume-vinegar and a plant-based cream
- Rissoles - mix grated and fried carrot and onion with garlic, egg, cooked quinoa and cooked adzuki beans, blend it all, season with salt, form the shapes of rissoles and bake them in the oven at 200°C for 30 minutes
- Sweet - cook rice, cook adzuki beans, add raisins for the last 5 minutes of cooking the adzuki beans, add apples chopped into small pieces and cook until soft, put a layer of rice and the adzuki mixture into a baking tin and bake at 190°C for about 10 minutes
- Pie - blend the previous cooked mixture of beans, apples and raisins, thicken if necessary and you can use it to cover a millet pie for example, let cool and stiffen for 2 hours
It is necessary to pre-soak the adzuki beans for at least 8 hours. Then they need to be cooked for approximately 45 minutes. There is no need to pick out the foam and add salt after the beans are cooked. Adzuki beans are of a slightly lighter purple-ish colour and remain solid.
Adzuki is a name often used for beans, but they are nor beans, they are more closely related to mungo. Adzuki beans originally come from Asia, where they were grown 1000 BC already. In China and Japan, they are mainly used for the preparation of sweet dishes. A typical example is sweet mochi cream. Soaked adzuki beans are used for the preparation of a hot beverage that is similar to tea. In Japan, adzuki beans are the second most popular legume after soy beans.
This product will be appreciated primarily by consumers with an interest in organic farming and a sustainable farming system. Organic food always goes through a system of checks and certifications that ensures their quality and enables them to bear this designation.
Composition
Adzuki beans*. May contain traces of gluten, peanuts, soy, nuts and sesame. *product of controlled organic farming.Storage
Store in a dry and cold place. Do not expose to direct sunlight.