TONS of adzuki beans!

[misledyouth00]

A friend of mine recently moved out and left us a TON of dried adzuki beans. I checked here and on vegweb but couldn't find something somewhat simple enough for my omni fiance to enjoy as well and something to use up all these things. We have about maybe 2-3 cups (maybe even more, I just eyeballed it) of dried beans and as everyone knows, when

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[charlycrash]

They're used in Japanese cuisine, as well as some Chinese food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azuki_beans#Uses

[misledyouth00]

Ah! Thanks! Sweetened beans sound a little weird though.

[teostra]

They're delicious sweet!

[lutin]

I usually just cook them with quinoa or something and add miso paste and seaweed. Simple, but man, so excellent. My sister and I ate them like that for at least a month.

[deimos_dagny]

I've used them to make burgers before, and they were just as good as black beans.

[misledyouth00]

Ah! Care to share the recipe? And did you serve them with anything other than ketchup/lettuce/pickles/etc.? I don't have much experience with bean burgers either.

[deimos_dagny]

I don't really remember what I did. Well, not *exactly*.

My base recipe was this one (just found by googling):
http://thekidsarealight.blogspot.com/2008/08/spicy-adzuki-bean-burgers.html
but it's not vegan, so I left out the cheese obviously, and I think I played with amounts of ingredients.

I did lettuce, tomatoes, sliced red onion, ketchup, and then my husband used egg-free mayo on his.

We had sweet potato fries and sauteed green cabbage on the side. Oh yes, that reminds me - I left out the potato in the burger recipe because we were having sweet potatoes on the side. I added extra carrots instead.

I've NEVER been great at burgers (I have issues with the whole cooking evenly business), but these were my third attempt (after my first two attempts at black bean burgers), and they were my best yet, so I'm getting better!

[misledyouth00]

Yay for practice making perfect!

Thanks for the recipe!

[heathergalaxy]

omg mochi mochi mochi... that's all I'd make is a huge pile of mochi. (and maybe have a few people over for a sushi dinner to make sure I didn't eat all of them. Because I would.)

[misledyouth00]

THAT'S POSSIBLE!?

TELL ME HOW! And you've successfully made it before?

I am perfectly ok with eating it all.

[heathergalaxy]

http://veganyumyum.com/2009/03/daifuku/ here you go! It took a little while to get the hang of filling it and closing it, but they were soooo yummy!

[pheniox20]

First off slap your boyfriend. Picky eaters are annoying and need to die...or be converted to learning to actually eat

[misledyouth00]

Hes not UBER picky, just doesn't like a lot of fake meat heavy vegan food. He'll try things that rely on more veggies, beans, potatoes, etc. but he is a pain with eating leftovers.

Thanks for all the tips! How long do I pre-boil and then cook though? Ooooh, thanks for letting me know what I can sub these for too!

[pheniox20]

Pre-boil them for about 20 minutes.

Eh yeah I hate fake meats too. I was raised on fruit and veggies, so it tend to be like "*poke*...*pokepoke*....*pokepokepoke*...Are you sure this is edible?" When it comes to fake meats.

[misledyouth00]

Ah, I've got a weakness for May Wah fake meats. They supply all the meat to the vegan restaurants by me and they're so greasy and delicious!

[renagrrl7]

Here's a great recipe for traditional Japanese "red rice" made with azuki beans. The same blog also has a recipe for red bean paste that you could use in pastries. There's a flaky Filipino pastry called "hopya" that uses this as a filling, so I imagine you could put it in incidentally vegan Pillsbury crescent rolls, or in another puff pastry, like Pepperidge Farms.

Otherwise, there are some other bean recipes you could use this in; I'd suggest checking Just Hungry's sister site, Just Bento, for some other recipes. Good luck!

[misledyouth00]

Thank you so much!