Moving on to beans, let's talk about kidney beans today.
Kidney beans are an annual herb of the legume family, scientific name is oleifera, which is the most widely cultivated legume crop in temperate regions. Phaseolus vulgaris is named "Compendium of Materia Medica", also known as kidney beans, rack beans, knife beans, jade beans, beans, beans, in Tianjin in order to distinguish them from cowpeas (Tianjin people call beans or long beans), this kind of beans are called "bent bean carob" or directly called "bent". Kidney beans are native to Mexico and Argentina in the Americas, and China began to introduce cultivation at the end of the 16th century.
Kidney beans are a very popular vegetable, which can be fried, stewed, pickled, and canned. Dried braised kidney beans, kidney bean stir-fried meat, kidney bean stewed potatoes, kidney bean roast eggplant are all common dishes on people's tables, kidney beans chopped and meat and stuffing to make buns is also a very common way to eat. In the Jiaodong area, the generally referred to as brine noodles refers to kidney bean clam egg noodles, that is, kidney beans are shredded, and then sautéed with the excavated clam meat, added water and beaten with frangipani flowers, which is used to make the toppings of the noodles.
The above eating methods are mainly to eat the pods and tender beans of kidney beans, and some other ways to eat kidney beans are mainly to eat the seeds of kidney beans. Kidney bean grains come in a variety of shapes, such as kidney,oval, flat, barrel, and spherical;there are also a variety of colors, such as white, black, black,purple, green, and variegated with markings. Particle sizes also vary widely, with smaller ones like soybeans, while large white kidney beans have grains several times larger than soybeans. Kidney bean grains are large and full, the texture is delicate, rich in sand, the food method is diverse, can be boiled or stewed, made into bean paste, bean paste, soup dishes, roast meat, canned or cold drinks, pastries, sweet snacks and so on are suitable. The more famous way to eat is to say plum kidney beans, which is a famous snack in Cantonese cuisine, the method is to wash the kidney beans and put them in the pot to cook, and then add nine plums and rock sugar to continue to cook until the kidney beans are soft but the skin is not broken, and after drying, it is very appetizing.
Another famous way to eat kidney beans is the kidney bean rolls in old Beijing. Kidney bean roll is a characteristic traditional famous dish in old Beijing, mainly made of kidney bean paste, the color is white, the texture is soft and delicate, the filling is sweet and refreshing, and it is said to be Cixi's imperial dim sum.