Beans are a high source of protein and roughage… in other words they not only make you fart but they make you poo

Beans can be cooked from the can (if you don’t mind the phenols sprayed as disinfectant to the surface of canned foods).

Packets of dried beans can be emptied into a bowl, soaked for 24 hrs in a bowl of water whilst stored in the fridge (covered).

From there they can have to be COOKED.

They can be baked as Bean Casserole for 1.5 hrs (a later recipe).

Or

1) they can be boiled for 40 min then put through a blender to produce a bean ‘paste’.

2) That’s when you add things to the taste of them….like onions, garlic, mineral salts, herbs (parsley and corriander are low Salicylate).

3) You then roll the bean paste into balls

4) and then roll the balls in either gluten free corn flake crumbs or ‘bread crumbs’ made from brown rice.

Voila,

you have Beany Burgers which are ready to fry.

5) To fry them, use a small amount of oil in a frying pan and cook them just as you would any burger.

• For those with immune deficiency, just stick to the non-soy beans (soy reduces gut IgA)
• For those Salicylate intolerant, just avoid the red kidney beans
• For those who won’t eat veggies, only meats, bean paste is closest in taste and texture to minced meat and can be easily blended with it to increase the vitamins/minerals and roughable of veggies.
• For those living on a shoe string budget, dried beans when constituted are a very affordable meal.
• For those with allergy or food intolerance to pulses (beans) you could make other types of vegie burgers.

Enjoy.

Donna Williams *)
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