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Mung Bean Purée
Preparation Time: 4-5 minutes, plus overnight soaking.
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
1 - 2 Onion slices
1 Clove garlic
2 cups Cooked mung beans
1 Tbs. Anise seeds
12 Kalamata olives, pitted
4 Tbs. Sage flavored extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)
1 Pinch cardamom powder
• Sea salt to taste
Preparation
• Wash beans under running water and soak overnight.
• Cook beans for 13 minutes in pressure cooker with garlic and onion.
• In a food processor, pulse kalamata olives and sesame seeds.
• Add mung beans (including garlic and onion,) EVOO, cardamom, salt and puree completely.
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Comments
• Instead of sage flavored EVOO you may use plain extra virgin olive oi. or oil flavored with your favorite herb or seed.
• In addition to being used as a spread on crackers or toast triangles as a snack or hors d'oeuvre, purèed mung beans may be served as side dish with grilled seafood or meat.
• Stored in the refrigerator in a glass container and topped by a thin layer of EVOO the mashed beans last for over a week. Glass containers are always recommended, as toxic chemicals from plastic containers tend to leach into conserved refrigerated food.
• It is important to sterilize the long-term storage jars with boiling water and putting them in a warm oven to dry.


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