Kathy Hester - The Great Vegan Bean Book: More than 100 Delicious Plant-Based Dishes Packed with the Kindest Protein in Town! - Includes Soy-Free and Gluten-Free Recipes!

This book is dedicated to you, my reader. You are the one I thought of most while I was writing it. I sincerely hope that you find some recipes and tips that make your meals a little easier and life more delicious. 2013 Fair Winds Press Text 2013 Kathy Hester Photography 2013 Rene Comet First published in the USA in 2013 by Fair Winds Press, a member of Quayside Publishing Group 100 Cummings Center Suite 406-L Beverly, MA 01915-6101 www.fairwindspress.com All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. 17 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 5 Digital edition published in 2013 eISBN: 978-1-61058-747-1 Digital edition: 978-1-61058-747-1 Softcover edition: 978-1-5923-3549-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hester, Kathy.

The great vegan bean book : more than 100 delicious plant-based dishes packed with the kindest protein in town! most recipes are soy-and gluten-free! / Kathy Hester. pages cm ISBN 978-1-59233-549-7 1. Cooking (Beans) 2. Vegan cooking. 3. Title. Title.

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More than 100 Delicious Plant-Based Dishes Packed with the Kindest Protein in Town! KATHY HESTER Photography by Rene Comet
Basics, How-Tos, and Recipes to Keep Your Food Budget in Check
Beany Breakfast and Brunch Dishes
Appetizers, Dips, and Spreads
Easy and Delicious One-Bowl Meals
Legume-Centric Salads
Sandwiches, Patties, and More
Quintessential Bean Dishes
One-Dish Meals
Desserts that Love Beans Basics, How-Tos, and Recipes to Keep Your Food Budget in Check A lmost every culture or country cooks with beans and is famous for one bean recipe or another. Any meal of your favorite cuisine can get a bean upgradeconsider Indian cooking, which features an endless amount of dishes made with beans! Beans are full of protein and fiber while being low in fat. They are a great source of iron, copper, phosphorus, manganese, and magnesium. But theyre also chock-full of thiamin, folic acid, riboflavin, and vitamin B6. Theres just so much to love about beans! Beans can help ease the strain on a food budget. Found in any grocery store, they are typically inexpensive.

You can find fancy ones in an Indian or Hispanic specialty store that are dirt-cheap as well. Although many of the heirloom beans will cost more, they are worth it for their varied tastes and textures. In many of the recipes I have a cheaper bean listed first with a fancy bean substitute you can try as well. This way you can have some great beans for dinner no matter what your food budget is. The exceptions are the baked goods and desserts. Theres no need to spend extra money on heirloom beans when you arent going to taste them.

In fact, I use blander beans so they wont overwhelm the flavor. They excel at creating a moist baked good with little or no oil at all! In the majority of the recipes in this book, you can choose whether you want to cook your beans from scratch or use canned beans. Its more economical to use dried beans, but sometimes convenience wins out. I always have a drawer full of various common and heirloom beans, as well as cans of beans stashed in the pantry. Dried beans are much cheaper than canned and dont contain any additives, so they are my first choice. If you are going to use canned beans, buy organic if possible.

Some nonorganic canned beans have sweeteners, preservatives, coloring, and firming agents and are high in sodium. But you avoid most of that in the organic canned beans, though they still tend to contain a high amount of salt.

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