The red beans differ in the high content of cellulose and good nutritiousness. At the same time haricot not too a kaloriyna, especially if to train her without fatty meat, cheese or a large amount of oil. Try to combine haricot with vegetables, spicy herbs, nuts and other useful ingredients. There is a lot of such dishes in the Mediterranean, Caucasian, Mexican cuisine.
Haricot salad with a celery
The savor to this simple dish is added by a fragrant celery. That salad turned out more tasty, use the oil flavored by spicy herbs, for example, rosemary and a thyme.
It is required to you:
- 2 handfuls of red beans; - 100 g of a sheep cheese; - 3 stalks of a celery;
- several leaves of a fresh basil; - salt; - fresh ground black pepper; - olive oil.
Wet haricot since evening in cold water. Fill in haricot with fresh water in the morning and boil until ready. Wash up a celery, clean and cut small into cubes. Crumb a sheep cheese. In a deep bowl mix a celery, haricot and cheese, add olive oil, fresh ground pepper and salt. Cover a dish the washed-out and dried lettuce leaves, atop lay out salad. Decorate salad with leaves of a basil and give with the dried white loaf.
Haricot pomegranate juice soup
It is required to you: - 300 g of red beans; - 2 glasses of pomegranate juice; - 8 glasses of soda; - 100 g of the peeled walnuts; - 1 bulb; - fresh ground black pepper; - salt; - greens of a celery, parsley, fennel and mint. Wet red beans for the night, cast away it on a colander in the morning, fill in with fresh water and you cook to softness, having added a little salt. Mash haricot in broth. Small cut onions, pound walnuts in a mortar. Add nuts and onions to a pan to haricot, you cook everything together 5-7 minutes. Crush in advance washed out and dried greens and add it to soup. Continue cooking 3 more minutes, then pour in pomegranate juice in a pan and switch off a plate. Let's a dish infuse a little under a cover.
Haricot with ginger and tomatoes
This dish can be served independently or as a garnish for meat on a grill. It is required to you: - 1 glass of red beans; - 3 tomatoes; - 1 tablespoon of grated ginger; - 2 carrots; - bunch of green onions; - vegetable oil; - salt; - fresh ground black pepper; - parsley greens. Wash out haricot and wet at several o'clock. Then boil it in the pure added some salt water and cast away on a colander. Remove a skin from tomatoes, having drenched them with boiled water. Cut pulp in cubes, crush onions. Clean carrots and grate. In a frying pan warm vegetable oil and fry in it the cut ginger about 2 minutes. Add onions and carrots, and in 5 minutes lay out tomatoes. Stirring slowly, you extinguish everything, the most part of liquid won't be evaporated yet. Lay out the boiled haricot in a frying pan, mix. Salt and pepper a dish to taste, strew with small cut parsley.