Recipe for beans: tasty and satisfying

Many people know about such leguminous culture as beans. Meanwhile, initially only its New World inhabitants knew about its taste and healing qualities, and only thanks to the Columbus expedition, the beans, together with other cultures, immigrated to Europe, and from there it got to Russia. Some time this culture was grown in botanical gardens, and only after many years to grow beans simple peasants.

Fortunately, these days we can do with the beans whatever we want. It is from it that they cook a delicious soup, make salads, second courses and much more. And also beans have medicinal properties that are widely used in folk medicine. For example, the juice of green pods is used to treat diabetes mellitus, and dry bean powder is used to treat burns and eczema.

The recipe for bean dishes is a source of healthy nutrition, a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients. In addition, the string bean imparts a rich taste to any dish, however, it is far from pleasing to many. Food can be consumed as green string beans (for example, asparagus), and mature grains. The last, before they start to cook something from them, it is necessary to soak for the night. Dishes from canned beans are almost as good as fresh ones, and some recipes involve the use of canned beans, rather than raw ones.

A very delicious following recipe for beans:

Bean Salad

Ingredients: 300 g of beans, 3 slices of bread, onion, mayonnaise.

Preparation: Overnight, the beans are soaked in water and left overnight. In the morning, we drain the water, and boil the beans on low heat until it is ready. While the corn is boiled, cut the bread into pieces and fry it in a frying pan along with the finely chopped onion. Fry the bread until it becomes crispy. We put the boiled beans in a salad bowl, add fried bread to it and fill it with mayonnaise. Such a recipe for bean dishes will have to by the way for any holiday, and its preparation does not take much time and money.

Dishes with green beans are always delicious and nutritious, while their calorie content is not very high. For example, you can try to prepare a salad:

Salad from green beans

Ingredients: 300 g of string beans, apple cider vinegar, onion, dill, parsley, salt, pepper.

Preparation: the string beans are cut into pieces, boiled in boiling water, then thrown back to a colander and put into a salad bowl. Add greens, 2 tablespoons apple (you can wine) vinegar, finely chopped onions, salt and pepper to taste. We fill the salad with vegetable oil.

I bring to your attention a few more recipes of beans, which the family will surely like:

String beans with bacon

Ingredients: 400 g of string beans, 1 onion, 50 g of bacon, marjoram, pepper, salt.

Preparation: Wash the pods and cut them into small pieces. Onion finely chopped, bacon cut into small pieces. In a heated frying pan fry the bacon and onion on olive oil, until the latter changes color. Add the beans, salt, marjoram and pepper to the frying pan to taste. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Soup with beans and tomatoes

Ingredients: 1 kg beans puree, 1 liter water, 1 head onion, 40 grams of pasta, 1-2 tomatoes, half a cup cream, 1 egg, 2 tbsp butter, salt and pepper.

Preparation: Beans to soak for the night, and boil in the morning and make mashed potatoes out of it. Formed puree diluted with water and bring to a boil. Add the cream, yolk and butter. Boil beforehand finely chopped tomatoes, then save them with onion in a pan and add to the soup. To serve when serving the table beautifully looked, it can be sprinkled with grated cheese on top. Serve only when hot.