Hello and welcome to Freshly Served the healthy vegan cooking show. I’m Heather and tonight
we’re gonna make a spicy black bean dip.
Now, dips are a great way to get some beans in the summer because you can make them cool,
they’re very easy to prepare, they don’t take a lot of time so you don’t have to
spend too much of your summer in the kitchen and they also don’t involve a lot of cooking,
if you cook the beans yourself from dried you can just leave them on the stove and get
out of the kitchen so you don’t have to be hanging around in front of the oven or
whatever getting all hot in summer.
They are very high; beans are in protein and fibre and complex carbohydrates so they are
an excellent energy boost in the middle of summer when you’re out and about.
Now, what I’m gonna start with are some black beans and you can use canned if you
wish that takes out one of the cooking steps. They won’t be quite as soft if you get them
out of the canned but if you do you wanna look for a canned that doesn’t use salt,
the reason that salt interferes with breaking down the proteins in the beans so if they’re
cook with salt they’re not going to be fully cooked.
Same thing if you’re cooking them yourself, make sure you don’t use salt in the first
cooking process and I’ve added them to my blender, if you don’t have a blender, if
you only have a food processor that would work as well. No worries. If you don’t have
either you can mash these it will just take a quite a bit longer.
Now, what I’m gonna do is add some tamari, bring this flavour and salt. You need some
salt in this in order to bring the flavour into the beans otherwise the beans will not
get the flavour of these lovely spices that were gonna put in here.
Now once you got your tamari in there, you’re gonna add some water and what your gonna do
is add it just below the level of the beans come up to in the blender so right there.
Now I’ve forget to pick up a lime at the store so I’m not putting it in the blender
but I left it in the recipe because it’s quite fantastic.
If you have a lime this is the time to zest and put the juice in here. Alright! Once it’s
perfectly smooth, take the lid off and you can throw your fresh cilantro in right now.
Now because its bean and its fairly thick where making a dip, it’s gonna have a bit
of trouble blending this unless if you give this a hand. Just take a spoon, stir it in
and then turn it on otherwise those herbs are just going to sit on top and not get blended
in.
I’m gonna add some cumin, not nearly fast enough. Now the best way to get really good
flavour cumin powder is to take the cumin seeds, toast them and then grind them with
the coffee grinder which I did with this stuff.
And then I’ve got some cayenne and cayenne is pretty spicy so go with however much you
like, summer is a great time to add spice to your diet because your body is hot in the
summer missing counter intuitive but if you look like Mexican food that’s kind of stuff
it’s hot because people are sweating, they’re really hot outside so the body doesn’t have
to conserve its heat like it does in the winter. It can actually be as hot as it wants and
it doesn’t have to worry about anything.
So, I get one last blend with those seasoning in there and the most important part is to
give it a taste, make sure it’s up to snuff. It’s really missing that lime. I think I’m
gonna add some lemon juice, I wasn’t going to but I have a bit of lemon juice in a jar,
in a pinch right? Ok.
Alright! Give this one a try.
That’s more like it!
Alright! There we go! Spicy Black Bean Dip! Great for a summer afternoon, put it out with
some fresh or maybe some slightly steamed vegetables for dinner. If you thinned it out
a little bit so add some water. Make a really great sauce to put over some vegetables for
dinner.
That is it! Very easy, right? You can find the recipe at HealthyVeganRecipes.net. I’m
Heather and this is Freshly Served.