This is based on a Charmane Soloman recipe. It’s really important to be patient carrying out the initial frying. Altough the ingredients are simple, the initial frying provides the flavour. I serve this over rice, with fresh coriander to garnish.
I adapted this heavily from a recipe in the July/August 2011 issue of Food Network Magazine. I thought I made enough changes to warrant calling it a new recipe, and it came out great. Hope you enjoy!
So this was my lunch yesterday and today. And I’m thinking about whipping up another bowlful this weekend to serve with some yummy grilled chicken (if it warms back up enough to be pleasant for eating outdoors! Brr!). And whipping up is probably not the best verb here…because there is no whipping involved. Just stirring really. So mabye I’ll stir up another bowlful this weekend. 😉 This dish is super “clean” and diet friendly recipe. It’s almost paleo (I think…I can’t keep the “rules” straight on this diet!), gluten free, dairy free, low carb, etc. There is minimal chopping…and just takes a few minutes to prep! Win-win-win…Baja-Cali Black Bean Salad FTW! I’m calling this Baja-Cali because it has all the flavors and colors of Baja…red/green…lime/cilantro…plus an avocado mixed in as well. Hence the Baja-Cali prefix for this black bean salad. Hope y’all enjoy this refreshing black bean salad!
A traditional Chinese medicinal soup( more like a porridge to Westerners).This excellent recipe is from one of my favorite cookbooks,The Wisdom Of The Chinese Kitchen,by Grace Young.In it she states that this sweet soup is considered cooling ,and therefore is thought to be beneficial in hot weather and to treat itchy skin conditions,rashes,and acne-but not too eat more than 1 1/2 cup at a time or it may cool the body too much and make people with weak constitutions faint!(I eat much more than the serving and have always been fine lol)For this recipe you need green mung beans,not hulled yellow beans,and Chinese brown sugar also called brown candy.The sugar can be found in almost any Asian market and is sold in slabs that are about the color and cosistency of piloncillo or soft jaggery and come 4-6 slabs in a package.They should be soft enough to cut easily if the package has been stored properly.For the medicinal benefits the sugar should not be substituted,as the brown candy is believed to be superior to other sugars and remove toxins from the body.
My mom learned this dish from a teacher who taught home economics. All of my family member love it. We always ask my mom to make it in summer.
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