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The Great Vegan Bean Book Review & Solstice Beans with Pumpkin and Greens Recipe

November 9, 2013 By Colleen 20 Comments

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I was contacted to review this paperback cook book,  The Great Vegan Bean Book by Kathy Hester who writes at HealthySlowCooking.com.  This Bean Cookbook has information about how to cook beans in over 100 recipes.    The only compensation received was this book.  All comments are my own.

The first thing that caught my eye was that it is a vegan cookbook and the recipes were gluten free!  I thought I knew all there was to know about the lowly Bean, but this book is really fun to read and in addition has great recipes!  This book tells you what to do from soaking times and cooking times, to what to puree and what to sauté.    Many of the recipes have directions for both stove top and slow cooker which is such a help for me.  The recipes take your from breakfast meals all the way through to dessert!

I cook often with beans but was surprised that this book has recipes for even beans I have never heard of such as the Rattlesnake Bean, Borlotti Bean, Tiger’s Eye Bean, Rio Zape Bean, Vaquero Bean, Marrow Bean, Goat’s Eye Bean and more!  Can you believe it…even more beans I have never heard of!

I can hardly wait to try Vanilla and Rose Water Parfaits made with red lentils and many other cookies and cakes made gluten free and with beans!

One recipe I have made so far and loved is

Solstice Beans with Pumpkin and Greens RECIPE:

I put the following ingredients in my crockpot:

3 cups cooked pinto beans

3 cups peeled and cubed raw pumpkin

1 cup water

1 Tablespoon Chicken seasoning, vegan

1 teaspoon jerk seasoning

1 Tablespoon red or port wine

pinch of red pepper flakes

then I cooked on low for 6-8 hours

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 30 minutes prior to serving, stir the cooked beans & pumpkin so the pumpkin is all mixed into the beans.

Add 2 cups chopped kale or other greens.  I used Kale.    Cook in the slow cooker on low until Kale wilts.

Use Salt & Pepper to taste and more jerk seasoning if you like it spicier.

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I highly recommend The Great Vegan Bean Book!

 

Colleen

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Comments

  1. punkin0001 says

    October 27, 2014 at 10:29 pm

    Oh I love beans and all that good antioxidant food that you have in this meal! Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  2. rochelle haynes says

    October 18, 2014 at 7:42 am

    Not to crazy about beans

    Reply
  3. Dorothy Teel says

    October 16, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    This recipe appears to be easy to put together and let it cook all day in the crock pot would be worth its weight I love beans and putting in the pumpkin and kale would make it that much better

    Reply
  4. AnnaZed says

    October 13, 2014 at 9:17 am

    What a lovely looking recipe. At this time of year you see a million so called pumpkin recipes which are really just sweets with pumpkin pie spice in them (and to me revolting); but this looks so wholesome and delicious to me. Thank you so much.

    Reply
  5. Debbie Welchert says

    October 13, 2014 at 6:40 am

    This looks really good. I’ll have to give it a try.

    Reply
  6. Holly E says

    October 12, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    Looks like a really good recipe. I love trying different types of beans and I can’t wait to try this recipe.

    Reply
  7. Bo says

    November 25, 2013 at 5:49 am

    Goat’s Eye Bean!

    Reply
  8. Lily Kwan says

    November 25, 2013 at 1:05 am

    Tiger’s Eye Bean

    Reply
  9. candy kratzer wenzel says

    November 23, 2013 at 11:51 pm

    Rattlesnake beans. Strange and never heard of them.

    Reply
  10. charj says

    November 16, 2013 at 12:52 am

    Ayocote Negro

    Reply
  11. Cee says

    November 14, 2013 at 6:49 pm

    I have never heard of the Vaquero Bean!

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  12. Becca F says

    November 14, 2013 at 4:16 am

    Tiger’s Eye Bean sound so interesting

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  13. andie says

    November 13, 2013 at 3:05 am

    I’ve never heard of very many of these – odd names- Goat’s Eye Bean?

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  14. Jillian says

    November 13, 2013 at 12:12 am

    Tiger’s Eye Bean is one the strange names for a bean used in the cookbook.

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  15. Jenny says

    November 12, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    Goat’s Eye Bean..ewww

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  16. Karen D says

    November 10, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    Goat’s Eye Bean, though in all honesty, I am a great bean fan, and have heard of almost all the ones you mentioned. A rural fair that I attend each year in Maine has a gentleman who I estimate enters over 100 varieties of dried beans!

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    • Colleen says

      November 10, 2013 at 5:39 pm

      Hi Karen! How fun to have access to all those beans! I’m going to have to find them online somewhere. So what are your favorite beans since you have heard of almost all of them…..have you cooked with them?

      Reply
  17. Alejandra Carrillo says

    November 10, 2013 at 4:12 am

    Rattle snake bean!

    Reply
  18. Ashleigh says

    November 10, 2013 at 2:54 am

    Tiger’s eye or rattlesnake bean. I have never heard of most of those weird combinations lol

    Reply
  19. Marissa M says

    November 10, 2013 at 2:12 am

    Borlotti Bean

    Reply

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