Y’all heard about cumin?

Lubya is a curry made with cumin and coriander seed, tomatoes and some ginger, garlic black pepper etc and it’s pretty fire. It’s made with just kidney beans but should be fine with a blend.

I’ve not found a tomato sauce where the beans don’t improve it and they make a cheap nutritious bulk filler to make it all stretch further

Also, and I wouldn’t have expected this, beans and pasta pair together insanely well.

carrorts

Make a salsa with tomatoes jalapenos onions and garlic and have them in that

Bump for beans

Ancho paste… spicy… smokey… ddeeelliiiccccious.

This screams Tex-Mex chilli to me but it would lend itself well to legit Mexican just as well.

Alternatively, if you have a broad array of spices then you could make it into something South Asian. I’m going to assume that you’re using ground spices here and say that if you wanted a sort of freestyle South Asian bean dish then you could start with a finely chopped onion (use a grater or even puree it in a blender if you prefer), a teaspoon of minced garlic and a teaspoon of minced ginger with a minced green chilli or some green bell pepper (can also be pureed with the onion), if you don’t like too much heat.

Soften these over a medium heat using oil (ghee is ideal but use what you’ve got), but avoid too much browning. Add in some chopped tomato of some kind (canned, fresh, a puree). Maybe 200g or so (about 7oz). If you’re re using tomatoes that come with a lid, you can hold plenty in reserve and add it a bit later if you want your dish more tomato-y.

Cook this for a few minutes (fresh tomatoes might take more like 10 mins), then add a small pinch of turmeric (optional), ½ to 1 teaspoon of a mild red chilli powder (to taste, substitute for sweet paprika if you don’t like heat or you aren’t sure about how hot you want it to be and add in some chilli later), about 1 teaspoon of garam masala, 1 teaspoon of ground cumin, 1 teaspoon of ground coriander (optional), and salt to taste.

Cook this down until it starts to get kinda clumpy and dry, where the oil you started frying with is separating out from the tomato mixture.

Add in ½ to 1 cup of hot water and stir it to recombine the mixture. Rinse and drain beans, add to the mixture. Taste for salt and adjust your heat and tomato-yness now if you’re uncertain about how hot you want the dish. Feel free to add in extra spices at this point and let it simmer for say an extra 5 mins if you do so. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves (cilantro), some fresh tomato, lemon juice, fresh ginger etc.

You can also add in other vegetables, such as potatoes or carrots or peas (or basically anything that you have lying around in your fridge) if you like. For harder vegetables like potatoes, add them into the dish when you add water to rehydrate and recombine the tomato mixture, then simmer until the potato chunks are softened through.

Caramel sauce for ice cream

Get weird with it

I like the classic red beans and rice: Hot sauce, cayenne pepper and thyme is a strong combo of spices, especially over a base of onions, green bell pepper, celery, garlic and tomatoes.

For me beans generally get some cumin, chili powder, hot sauce, fat, and a bit of MSG, and wind up in a tortilla

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