You probably already know that beans have super nutrition, are high in protein and fiber, low in fat and don't taste half bad to boot. But when you get home from work and need to have dinner on the table in 30 minutes, you just don't have time to cook dry beans to perfection. But you do have a convenient alternative: bean flour.
Instructions
1. Whisk in bean flour into chicken stock, vegetable stock or milk as a base for a fast, hearty soup. Mix about one part flour to five parts liquid. The soup thickens in three minutes, so if you are going to add any vegetables or other meat, do it quickly.
2. Replace up to one-fourth of the flour in any recipe with soybean flour. Beans combined with grain form a complete protein, which is exceptionally efficient nutrition for the body. Best of all, family members don't have to know they are eating it.
3. Substitute a quarter of the conventional flour in baked goods with white bean flour or fava bean flour.
4. Use flours from stronger tasting beans such as pinto beans, black beans, garbanzo beans or kidney beans to make a great homemade bean dip that can be eaten on chips, sandwiches or tortillas for a quick, tasty snack. Use a ratio of one part flour to one part liquid.
5. Use seven-eighths of a cup of garbonzo bean flour to replace one cup of wheat flour in baked recipes.
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