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I had an another recipe in mind with black-eyed bean sprouts for today’s meal. But I accidentally over-cooked the beans to mush. Thus born the bean dip for rotis.
The beautiful pale red color of the dip is from chipotle chillies. I really love how the spicy chipotle perk up a recipe with smoky flavor. I have also added fragrant cumin and lively lime juice to the pureed beans. The dip may be a last minute solution to the mushed bean problem, but the result was attractive and had a great taste, similar to refried beans that they serve in Mexican restaurants.
Overcooked Black-Eyed Bean Sprouts and Black-Eyed Bean Dip
Recipe:
Precooked black-eyed bean sprouts or beans – 1 cup
Dried chipotle chillies – 2 (presoaked in warm water for about 30min)
cumin – half teaspoon
salt – half teaspoon or to taste
Lime juice -2 tablespoons or to taste
Take the chipotle chillies and cumin in a Sumeet style mixer or food processor. Pulse few minutes until the chillies are very smooth. Add the black-eyed bean sprouts, salt and lime juice. Process to fine puree. Remove to a cup and refrigerate for about 30 minutes to let the flavor develop. Serve with roti/tortillas or corn/taro root chips.
What a welcome accident over cooking the beans was! 🙂 The dip looks great. I bet it tastes great with some baked pita chips too!
Comment by Roopa (KitchenAromas) — August 6, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
OMG!!! I had a 3 cup batch of overcooked mushy black eyed peas for bbq this sat!! they were meant to be in the guggulu salad but i threw them out. you should’ve posted this great idea earlier 🙂
next time….there’s always next time!!!
Comment by freshma — August 6, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
The dip looks delicious!
Comment by Poonam — August 6, 2007 @ 5:42 pm
Great to see your posts peppingup us all again!
Thanks Indira!
Comment by Nirmala — August 6, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
Great idea to use overcooked beans…
Comment by Kumudha — August 7, 2007 @ 8:55 am
Pita chips and this dip, a terrific combination, Roopa.
Freshma: They become from tender to mush in matter of seconds. Troublesome little beans. 🙂
Poonam, Nirmala and Kumudha: Thanks for your kind comments.
Comment by Indira — August 7, 2007 @ 6:37 pm
What a great idea!
Comment by Kay — August 9, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
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