You've Got To Be Kidding Beans
- 113 cups red beans
- 1 each onions peeled
- 1 each carrots peeled, chopped
- 1 each celery stalks chopped
- 5 each prunes pitted
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 3/4 teaspoon coriander seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon fenugreek
- Combine onion, celery, carrots, and beans in a soup pot.
- Add enough water to cover beans by 3 inches.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until beans are tender but not mushy, approximately 55 minutes.
- If using a pressure cooker and non-soaked beans, bring beans and 4 cups of water to high pressure for 1 minutes, remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes.
- Open, drain beans.
- Return beans to pressure cooker, add onions, celery, carrot, and 4 cups fressh water.
- Bring to high pressure for 15 minutes.
- Turn off heat, bring pot to sink and run under cold water to reduce pressure.
- Open and check beans to see if they are fully cooked.
- If not, simmer uncovered until done.
- Drain beans and remove onion, celery, and carrot.
- Meanwhile, combine prunes and balsamic vinegar in nonreactive pan and simmer for 15 minutes (don't boil hard).
- Remove prunes and chop finely.
- Add prunes back to vinegar.
- Add tamarind concentrate and chili-garlic paste to prune-vinegar mixture.
- If working from whole fenugreek, grind in coffee grinder to powder.
- Lightly grind coriander seeds.
- Add both to vinegar mixture.
- Mix well.
- Combine beans and vinegar mixture.
- Chill for 2 hours.
- When ready to serve, mix in 1/4 cup cilantro and top with sliced red onion.
red beans, onions, carrots, celery, prunes pitted, balsamic vinegar, coriander seeds, fenugreek
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/youve-got-to-be-kidding-beans-47691 (may not work)