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Tasty Tuesdays: Vegan Beans from Around the World Review and #Giveaway with #linky

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I had the opportunity to review the cookbook Vegan Beans from Around the World: 100 Adventurous Recipes for the Most Delicious, Nutritious, and Flavorful Bean Dishes Ever. It is a cookbook of recipes that are obviously vegan and have beans in all of the recipes. I have received offers to review other books, but this really intrigued me as I have gotten to like beans more and more as I get older, and I know that beans are supposed to be very nutritious.

So I took the opportunity, and last night I prepared three of the recipes for dinner. Two of the three recipes were declared winners by my husband and me, and the third one was okay, but just not for us. I also am not a vegan, so I made the recipes with what I had on hand, so a couple of them were no longer technically “vegan.”Recipe for green bean fries

The first one that we really liked was the Bean Burrito. I LOVE bean burritos, but normally the ones I have eaten have refried beans in them. There were no refried beans in this recipe. My husband even said he thought it almost tasted like there was meat in the burritos, and that he could definitely go meatless for a meal if he were eating these burritos. My daughter who really likes beans said it tasted good, but that it had too much sour cream for her. I liked the sour cream, but I also liked the bean mixture without the sour cream. I did not have vegan sour cream, so I just used my regular sour cream.

I also made Green Beans Fries. My husband and I loved these. The kids were just okay with them, but my son who hates green beans liked the fries better than just eating cooked green beans. I also did not have nutritional yeast (and really don’t like the taste of it either), so I used parmesan cheese in place of the nutritional yeast. If you don’t know what I am talking about, nutritional yeast is NOT yeast, and you can find it in natural food stores or in health food stores or on Amazon. This is a very easy, healthy snack to make. I’ll give you the recipe for the fries today, and maybe I’ll do some more recipes on future posts!

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Green Bean Fries
Ingredients
  • 2 cups fresh green beans ends cut off, or 1 pound frozen green beans, thawed (I used fresh.)
  • 1 tablepoon olive oil
  • 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast (I used parmesan cheese
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 425°.
  2. Line a cookie sheet that has an edge with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
  3. Toss the beans in olive oil in a large bowl.
  4. Lay the beans on the cookie sheet completely flat.
  5. Mix together the remaining ingredients. Sprinkle it on the beans.
  6. Bake for 12 minutes. Carefully broil for 1-2 minutes. Watch them so that they do not burn.

The third recipe was a Three Bean Salad. I have never tried a Three Bean Salad, so I wanted to try this recipe. It was too sweet for my husband and me. But that’s just a matter of opinion.

I would like to try some of the other recipes in this book like these:

  • Southwestern Style Salad
  • Mexican Refried Beans
  • Boston Baked Beans
  • Falafel
  • Italian “Meat” Balls
  • Black Bean Burgers
  • Samosas
  • Black Bean Brownies (also Gluten Free!)

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Comments

  10. Korilynn says

    April 15, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    I love green beans too, but my family doesn’t. Thanks for hosting another week 🙂 So excited to check out what everyone pins.

  11. Tammy Doiel says

    April 15, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    I love beans now too, which is funny as I didn’t as a kid. I could do without meat a lot of the time too, but my husband really likes it. However, he liked the bean burritos without meat really well.

    • Tammy says

      April 15, 2014 at 3:11 pm

      Thats what I get for using my ipod to reply. Half of my response showed up. This would be a perfect alternative to frying green beans. I will have to give this a try. Thanks and pinning

  16. Megan Walker says

    April 16, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    It always impresses me what people think to turn into healthy snacks! I never would have thought of roasting green beans like french fries.

    Thanks for sharing on Hump Day Happenings!

  17. Elizabeth says

    April 19, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    I like eating beans both because I think they’re tasty and because they’re a healthy and frugal protein source. Some of my family prefers me to cook with more meat, but I’d like to cook with more beans.

  19. Tamara says

    April 21, 2014 at 11:28 am

    We are not vegan but we do love beans. I love a variety of recipes & would love to try something new with other beans that we don’t normally buy
    Pinning.

    • Tammy Doiel says

      April 22, 2014 at 9:51 am

      I tried a macaroni and cheese, and it was gross. I put it on popcorn, and that was okay. I had a big can of it that I stopped using, and I think I got pantry moths from it (must have had some larvae in it), and ever since then, we’ve had a hard time getting rid of them. That has scared me off from ever using it again.

  22. LeeAnn Boggs says

    April 23, 2014 at 9:28 am

    I do like beans. I can eat just about any meal with re fried beans. I am not vegan, but my brother is and he is always looking for good recipes. I think he will really like this.

  23. LeeAnn Boggs says

    April 23, 2014 at 9:28 am

    I do like beans. I can eat just about any meal with re fried beans. I am not vegan, but my brother is and he is always looking for good recipes. I think he will really like this.

  24. LeeAnn Boggs says

    April 23, 2014 at 9:28 am

    I do like beans. I can eat just about any meal with re fried beans. I am not vegan, but my brother is and he is always looking for good recipes. I think he will really like this.

  25. Karen D says

    April 23, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    I’m a 36+ year vegetarian who loves beans, and try to eat vegan dinners several times a week. My downfall is pizza.

  26. Emi says

    April 23, 2014 at 6:45 pm

    I eat similar green beans but I fry them with Panko bread crumbs. I try to eat vegan as much as I can.

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