Make a delicious and nutritious snack. Lean white bean pate is just what you need to make quick sandwiches for breakfast or lunch.
If you want to cook a simple, but very tasty, and most importantly hearty cold appetizer, then you will surely like the lean white bean pate. It will especially appeal to lovers of various legumes: beans, chickpeas, beans. This pate can be made from any kind of beans. You can shade the taste of the pate with lemon juice. If desired, you can diversify the taste of the dish with roasted walnut kernels or peanuts. This appetizer tastes like chyme and will be appetizing on crackers or toast.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 54 kcal kcal.
- Servings - 4 Plates
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Beans - 250 g
- Sesame - 2 tbsp l.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
- Lemon juice - 1-2 tbsp. l.
- Bean broth - how much you need
- Ground paprika - to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Salt to taste
- Water - how much you need, at least 1 liter
Step by Step Cooking Lean White Bean Pâté
1. First you need to prepare the main ingredient - beans, it needs to be boiled. Pre-wash it, fill it with water and leave it overnight. During this time, the dry beans will swell, being saturated with water, and it will be easier to cook them. The beans are cooked long enough, you need to bring them to a boil, then turn the fire on and simmer until soft. Top up with cold water as needed. At the very end, add salt. Do not pour the broth in which the beans are boiled.
The beans will cook much faster and will have a richer taste if, after letting them boil for about 10 minutes, drain the water and pour cold water (half a liter of liquid is enough for such a volume) with a teaspoon of sugar. When the water boils, let it boil again for about 10 minutes. Drain the water several times and fill it with cold water with added sugar.
2. Lightly fry the sesame seeds in a dry skillet until soft golden brown. Do not overexpose the grains on the fire so that they do not burn.
3. Grind the fried sesame seeds in a mortar, pass a few cloves of garlic through a press and add to the boiled beans.
4. Parry everything with a hand blender, add the bean broth, adjusting the consistency of the pate.
5. Add dry ground spices (red paprika and black pepper), bring to taste.
6. Lean white bean pate is ready. Serve with toast, bread, or crackers. Treat your family or guests to this great snack and collect likes. Bon Appetit.
See also video recipes:
1) Greek Bean Pate
2) Delicious bean and champignon pate
