Smoked Black Urad Beans Recipes

Steps:

• Drain the black beans from their soaking water and place in a slow cooker. Fill with enough fresh water to cover them. Cover and set to High.
• Heat bacon drippings in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions; cook and stir until tender. Stir this into the beans along with the brown sugar, liquid smoke, molasses and jalapeno slices. Stir to blend, then cover and cook on High for 5 to 6 hours, or until beans are tender.

Steps:

• Cut 1 green pepper into 1-inch squares. Smash and peel 4 of the garlic cloves. Put the green pepper and garlic into a large pot with the beans, ham hock, bay leaves and 1 tablespoon salt. Add 2 quarts water and bring to a boil. Cover the pot and simmer until the beans are tender, an hour or more.
• Meanwhile, make a sofrito. Cut the remaining ½ green pepper into ¼-inch dice. Peel and finely chop the remaining garlic. Heat the olive oil in a very large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook, stirring occasionally, until it starts to brown, about 5 minutes. Add the green pepper and onion and cook, stirring, until slightly softened, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic, jalapeño (leave out the seeds if you don't want it too spicy), oregano, cumin, black pepper and 2 teaspoons salt and stir for another minute. Pour in the vinegar and scrape any browned bits from bottom of pan with a wooden spoon. This is your sofrito.
• When the beans are cooked, discard the bay leaf. Remove and set aside the ham hock and let it cool. Transfer 1 cup of beans to small bowl, mash them into a paste with the back of a fork and return to the pot. Add the sofrito, then the sugar. Pull the meat from the ham hock, leaving behind any white sinew or gristle. Chop the ham into ½-inch pieces and return it to the bean pot.
• Stir the beans well and bring to a boil over medium heat, then lower to a simmer and cook, uncovered, for 20 minutes or so, skimming any foam from the top. Taste for salt and serve with white rice.

Steps:

• 1. In a bowl, mix together the dals and the kidney beans. Then heat the oil in a medium cast-iron or nonstick saucepan over medium-high heat and cook the green and red chili peppers, stirring, until golden, about 1 minute. (Stand back from the pan in case they burst.) Add the ginger and garlic, then the coriander, cumin, oregano, fenugreek seeds, turmeric, asafoetida, salt, and liquid smoke. Stir about 30 seconds.2. Add the dals and beans and stir constantly over medium-low heat until fragrant and well roasted, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a pressure cooker, add 6 cups of water, secure the lid and cook over high heat until the regulator indicated high pressure, then cook 1 minute more. Reduce the heat to low and continue to cook another 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow the pot to depressurize on its own, 12 to 15 minutes. Carefully open the lid and check to see if the beans are very soft with some of the broken if not, add remaining 2 cups water, cover, bring back up to high pressure, and cook under pressure another 1 minute. Or cover and boil until soft, about 30 minutes.3. Mix in the tomato sauce, cilantro, fenugreek leaves, and yogurt-water, and cook, stirring occasionally, over low heat until the dal is thick and creamy, 45 to 60 minutes. Transfer to a serving dish, sprinkle the garam masala on top, and serve.From "1,000 Indian Recipes." Copyright 2002 by Neelam Batra. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Steps:

• Wash and drain beans, and set aside.
• Wash, seed and chop whole pepper; wash, dry and chop cilantro; chop onion; wash, seed and mince jalapeño; mince garlic, and wash tomato and coarsely dice it and smoked turkey.
• Whisk together the oil, vinegar and mustard in a bowl large enough to hold all of the ingredients; stir in the beans and chopped ingredients.
• Wash and julienne the basil leaves, and stir in.
• Remove coarse stems from arugula, wash and dry and break into small pieces. Stir into salad, seasoning to taste with pepper. Mix all the ingredients well to coat with dressing. Serve with bread.