Adzuki Bean and Vegetable Bowl
Ingredients
- Dried adzuki beans (or azuki beans, they are the same thing)*
- ½ Red onion
- Firm tofu
- Greens (Bok Choy, Kale, Spinach, Swiss chard all work great)
- Short grain brown rice**
- Sweet or Yellow onion
- Scallions
- Whole peppercorns
- Sea salt
- Olive oil
- Optional toppings: Sesame seeds, pine nuts
Instructions
- This recipe is more of a "get it," then go off and create your own version, rather than a formula for you to follow. As such, I am not going to break out the instructions as I usually do for my recipes. If you read the full post you will have a VERY clear understanding how to make this dish and hopefully the confidence to add in the things that you love in the quantities that you love. I thoroughly enjoy reading/watching how people prepare food and seeing the ingredients they use and then doing my own thing in the kitchen. If you are a person who loves referring to instructions while you cook, try doing without this time, and see what the experience is like. As my grandfather always said, "try it, you might like it."
Notes
*The quantities of each of these ingredients is dependent upon how many people you are cooking for. It is helpful to know that 1 cup of dried beans yields 2½ cups of cooked beans. You can see from the photos how I portioned out 1 serving, but again that will vary depending who you are cooking for and how hungry you/they are.
**I have found the most important factor in getting fluffy, perfect rice is letting it sit covered at the end of its cook time. Once you turn the burner off and taste that the rice is cooked, fluff it (pick it up gently, rotating down to the base of the pot with your fork). Put the lid back on immediately and keep it covered and you will have beautifully fluffy, and most importantly, delicious rice.Here's a detailed description of how I created this dish:
**I have found the most important factor in getting fluffy, perfect rice is letting it sit covered at the end of its cook time. Once you turn the burner off and taste that the rice is cooked, fluff it (pick it up gently, rotating down to the base of the pot with your fork). Put the lid back on immediately and keep it covered and you will have beautifully fluffy, and most importantly, delicious rice.Here's a detailed description of how I created this dish:
Recipe by at https://www.thescratchartist.com/adzuki-bean-and-vegetable-bowl/