Black Bean Confusion

Ellyn

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There's black soy beans, usually fermented.

There's black mung beans, Urad Dal in India.

And there's Spanish black beans.


Which ones work best as a dessert? Has anyone had access to all three and were able to taste their particular characteristics? Or is it basically that a bean is a bean is a bean?
 
they do taste different. I have both Urad Dal and black turtle beans (aka Spanish black beans) and there is most definitely a difference. I use these mainly when I make black bean brownies which are really yummy and very moist.

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"Black Turtle Bean" by Sanjay Acharya - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Turtle_Bean.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Black_Turtle_Bean.jpg

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Whole, spilt and skinned & split Urad Dal.
 
I have never used black beans in a dessert but they sound like a wonderful addition to it. I am fairly new to the uses for black beans because I just started eating them in the last year, mainly in salads.
 
Thank you for the recipe! Believe me, I wouldn't be put off by anything that was vegan. I might have fallen off the vegan wagon myself, but I certainly have no prejudice against it flavor-wise or in principle or anything.
 
Ellyn said:
Thank you for the recipe! Believe me, I wouldn't be put off by anything that was vegan. I might have fallen off the vegan wagon myself, but I certainly have no prejudice against it flavor-wise or in principle or anything.
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they are scrummy. I also have taken to adding big chocolate chunks to them now as well... :whistle:
 
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