Looking for a good kidney bean recipe? These Asian bean and rice rolls are a light, tasty dish. Enjoy loose or wrapped in a lettuce leaf, and spice it up with a store-bought Asian ginger sauce.
Ingredients
Makes 4 servings
- 1 cup medium grain rice
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar or white distilled vinegar
- 1 tablespoon dry cooking sherry
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
- 2 to 3 tablespoons pine nuts or slivered almonds
- 2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
- 1/2 cup diagonally sliced snow peas (1/4-inch slices)
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger root or 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 15-ounce can or 1 3/4 cups cooked dry-packaged red or light red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1/2 cup chopped seeded cucumber
- 1 orange, peeled, seeded, coarsely chopped
- 2 medium green onions and tops, thinly sliced
- Salt
- White pepper
- 12 large Boston lettuce leaves or leaf lettuce
Directions
- Cook rice according to package directions.
- In a small saucepan heat vinegar, sherry, sugar, and lemon rind over medium heat until sugar is melted, about 1 minute. Drizzle vinegar mixture over rice and toss.
- While rice is cooking, toast pine nuts in sesame oil in small skillet over medium heat until golden, about 2 minutes; remove from skillet. Add snow peas, ginger root, and water to skillet; cook, covered, over medium heat until snow peas are crisp & tender, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Stir pine nuts, snow peas, ginger root, beans, cucumber, orange and green onions into rice. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Serve warm, or refrigerate and serve chilled; spoon about 1/4 cup packed rice mixture onto each lettuce leaf and roll up.
Tip
Medium grain rice is also called sushi rice or sweet jasmine rice; it can be purchased in supermarkets and Asian groceries. If desired, the rice mixture can be eaten with a fork or chopsticks, rather than rolled into lettuce leaves. Enjoy this fantastic kidney bean recipe!
