One of the favorites I learned to enjoy when we lived in Cuba in the late 40's and early 50's (Before Fidel Castro)is the black bean. Usually served with rice, diced garlic, scallions and slices of hardboiled egg on top and then sprinkled with malt or cider vinegar. YUM...
Protein food source -- Estimated protein content
1 cup tofu 28 g
1 cup legumes 14 g
2 ounce lean meat, fish, poultry 14 g
1-2 ounces of nuts 14 g
1 slice of bread 3 g
1 cup raw vegetables 2 g
1 cup Beans, black, cooked 15.24g
1 cup Beans, Great Northern 14.74g
1 cup Beans, kidney, canned 13.44g
1 cup Beans, navy 15.83g
1 cup Beans, pinto 14.04g
1 cup Beans, snap, green, canned 1.55g
Sounds like dinner for tonight - along with a nice salad.
A bit of trivia factoid.
Cubans eat more rice per capita than any other country - Yep, even more than the Chinese and Japanese.
Granny, Those beans can be a really good source of nutrients and protein. You are absolutely correct. <<<
I was raised poor on beans and cornbread.
When I was about 30, I read that the Mexicans had the best diet, for balanced minerals and vitamins/food value.
Beans, rice and corn.
I know that a Jalapeno pepper a day, will keep you from getting colds, they are the highest source of vitamin C.
And over the years, when I was really hungry, it would be for cornbread and beans, a real feast would also have greens and fried potatoes.
Buttermilk to drink and lots of butter for the corn bread.
I only found out that I liked Lentils, ten years ago.
We grew up thinking that the way to eat rice, was with butter, honey/or / sugar and canned milk on it, and I now add a sprinkle of nutmeg to mine.
I remember my surprise at how ‘the other folks’ used rice in place of potatoes.
I like rice and eat it often, just as the other folks do, but I never feel like it fills my hunger needs, only the taste buds are satisfied.
It is nice that beans are so good for you.