Have you ever cooked lupini, which is a legume?

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

for how long to cook it in a pressure cooker if it has been soaked (24 hours) with a teaspoon of soda powder..? one hour at most??

i could not find any recipe for that on the interent..

 

[dragnlaw]

I found this web site you could check out - I've never seen it before, I have no idea if the site is reliable but it was the first I found.
Mary's Test Kitchen

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

thank you. so i will do it for 20 minutes......

i will add salt to the cooking water itself so it is gets inside the beans..

some people add whole garlic cloves and lemon juice to the cooking water too....

 

[blissful]

I've never tried them. I looked to see where I could get the dry beans and there is nothing local. The Asian store's online information isn't working today. There is amazon which I haven't found reasonable for dried beans. Nuts.com, I order from them once a year had them listed so that's an option.
They look like fava beans, broad beans, but they aren't the same as lupin or lupini beans.
@SEEING-TO-BELIEVE are you trying to make the snack beans you previously bought at a shop near you?
I'm looking forward to hearing about their texture and flavor. Good luck.

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

they are not easy to chew even when peeled. bitter and without much flavor.

this is how i remember the taste when ive tried it as a kid in Acre (a city)..

but im giving it another try tommorow.

i will write how it was..

thank you

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

i've used the "sweet" variety which is guess isn't bitter or at least not as much.. soaked 500 grams for 24 hours... cooked in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes with two tea spoons of table salt..

i allowed it to release the pressure naturally.

it came out not bitter and pretty good. you have to peel it.. it is easier to peel it inside the mouth and then take the skin out.......

i strained and freeze some of it....

it has a lot of protein and i think i really like it.....

so no. it was not bitter for me at all.........

btw
it is hard to clean the black foam from the pot after cooking

 

[pepperhead212]

I've seen that term "lupine" used in some old cookbooks, and I always figured it was a way of describing legumes, sort of a shortening of the genus name Lupinus, even though most of the beans we eat are not in this genus - I think this was more of a British term, in those older books, as I saw several different dried beans with this name. And later, I saw lupines in seed catalogs, but not in the food section, but ornamental plants.

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

today i've pressure cooked it again.
this time i've noticed that it is very important to skim off the foam before putting the lid because if not it will make black foam scattered inside the pot after cooking. this is what happened to me..
and.. it is hard to remove it from the pot after cooking....

this time i cooked for 30 minutes..

i heard the skin is poisonous..

the bean is called TOORMOOS over here..

 

[dragnlaw]

By the Way, for those of you new to legumes. There is one variety that is edible. But I understand the majority of them are toxic. As I am not a huge fan of legumes in general I have to say no, I never have had them!

 

[blissful]

By the Way, for those of you new to legumes. There is one variety that is edible. But I understand the majority of them are toxic. As I am not a huge fan of legumes in general I have to say no, I never have had them!

Are you quoting Gundry? There is a doctor that must have failed basic safe cooking classes and failed at basic communication. He says legumes are toxic due to lectins. What he doesn't say is that is he talking about raw legumes. No one eats them raw. If he had learned to cook them properly growing up then he wouldn't be spouting this fake toxic news about them. I believe the doctor's name is Gundry.

I eat beans, sometimes 3 kinds in a day. I eat lentils both red and green, red beans, black beans, white beans, garbanzo beans, black eyed peas, kidney beans, fava beans.....probably more.

 

[Steve Kroll]

By the Way, for those of you new to legumes. There is one variety that is edible. But I understand the majority of them are toxic. As I am not a huge fan of legumes in general I have to say no, I never have had them!

Toxic? Where are you getting this information?

As a pescatarian, I eat beans and lentils all the time. I would guess a lot of us do. Even non-vegetarians.

 

[dragnlaw]

Oh dear, my bad! I did say for newbies and true, I should have elaborated. I was thinking of people who grind a lot of things for flour and this has happened.
But because lupines can be found in the wild and in gardens, I didn't want someone to go gathering without knowing what they are getting!
Do you grow and dry your own legumes beans? Have you ever harvested the beans from lupines?

LOL, no, I certainly wouldn't expect people to chew on raw beans of any sort! toxic or not! Not unless they had grinders equivalent to cows or sheep! Now those poor creatures do suffer from the toxin that is present inmost if not all those legumes.

Never heard of Gundry.

 

[blissful]

Oh dear, my bad! I did say for newbies and true, I should have elaborated. I was thinking of people who grind a lot of things for flour and this has happened.
But because lupines can be found in the wild and in gardens, I didn't want someone to go gathering without knowing what they are getting!
Do you grow and dry your own legumes beans? Have you ever harvested the beans from lupines?

LOL, no, I certainly wouldn't expect people to chew on raw beans of any sort! toxic or not! Not unless they had grinders equivalent to cows or sheep! Now those poor creatures do suffer from the toxin that is present inmost if not all those legumes.

Never heard of Gundry.

Gundry sells supplements to correct the lectin issue, and many more supplements.

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

I eat beans, sometimes 3 kinds in a day. I eat lentils both red and green, red beans, black beans, white beans, garbanzo beans, black eyed peas, kidney beans, fava beans.....probably more.

You forgot the besst legume of all, PEANUTS!