Vegetarian Mazemen With Beans and Egg Recipe

By now, I’m optimistic all the people who stocked up on dried beans will agree {{that a}}) dried beans, when cooked properly, are extraordinarily good to eat nonetheless b) the most effective points to eat can turn into tiresome if you eat them frequently. And even when confronted with a pot of fully cooked, plump and creamy beans, with a broth that’s practically just about pretty much as good as a result of the beans themselves, fortified because it’s with greens like onion, carrot, and celery, you may now find yourself craving one factor else—really something!—because it would not matter what you do with a bean, no matter how good it is to eat, it’s nonetheless pretty bean-y.

In case you, like me, are questioning what you’ll be able to do to mix up your bean-based weight-reduction plan, why don’t you try turning these creamy beans and their delicious broth proper right into a bean-based noodle dish, like this double-bean mazemen? It’s nonetheless purchased that bean style, nonetheless you’re consuming noodles, not beans. And in distinction to a dish like pasta with beans and greens, the place the beans and greens are additional than merely bit players, this dish is mainly practically using the beans as a style base and thickener, and the principle focus is on the noodles (which is likely to be helpful if you, like me, cook dinner dinner for a youthful teenager who hates beans nonetheless loves noodles).

What Is Mazemen?

Mazemen, which interprets from Japanese to “mixed noodles,” is principally ramen with out the broth: slippery alkaline noodles are blended with a (very) savory sauce, aromatic oil, and topped with regardless of you would possibly want accessible. They’re a delicious however low-effort methodology to utilize up leftovers—roasted meats, poached hen breast, stir-fried greens, you determine it—and often they rely upon pantry staples, like soy sauce and rice vinegar, so the hardest issue to hunt out is generally the noodles themselves.

Incorporating Beans Into the Dish

In my earlier mazemen recipes—XO mazemen and bacon and egg mazemen—I turned to very savory parts like XO sauce and bacon to produce a meaty style base. Proper right here, the liquid throughout which you cook dinner dinner dried beans presents that style base, a very small amount of cooked, puréed beans presents additional physique and creaminess, and throughout the place of the soy sauce utilized in these totally different two recipes, which presents salt and all-important glutamates, I flip to a fermented bean paste, like miso, doenjang, doubanjiang, or gochujang.

The result is a savory, doubly bean-y noodle dish that’s better than solely a useful car for repurposing leftovers; it’s pretty delicious in its private correct. And the dish is vegan if you omit the egg: merely add just a bit additional flavorful oil (a few tablespoon) for richness and to sufficiently lubricate the noodles (and temper the salinity), and you can be all set.

I’ve examined this dish with various dried beans—limas, scarlet runners, cranberry, good Northerns, navy beans, and chickpeas—and whereas all of them work from a style standpoint, some make a sexy dish you’d desire to eat (limas, cranberry, the white beans, and chickpeas), whereas others (the scarlet runners) make an inky mess. The one issue to recollect is that the necessary factor to creating this dish flavorful is using the dried bean cooking liquid, since, provided you cooked your dried beans with aromatics and herbs and an relevant amount of salt, it must be very tasty.

If all you’ve got gotten accessible is canned beans, they will work, too, nonetheless please don’t use the liquid that comes throughout the can. First off, the liquid throughout the can is just not very flavorful. Second, it has a ton of viscosity, which, when blended with the alternative sauce parts, ends in the sauce taking on an unappealingly thick and heavy consistency. If using canned beans, you’re larger off using low-sodium store-bought hen stock or vegetable stock throughout the place of the bean cooking liquid, although you may want in order so as to add an extra 1/4 teaspoon (or additional) of kosher salt per serving.

Deciding on the Noodles

For the noodles, it is best to use store-bought alkaline noodles, whether or not or not from a faithful noodle producer like Photo voltaic Noodle or the dehydrated stuff you uncover immediately ramen bundle, or any of the do-it-yourself alkaline noodle recipes we’ve got now on the situation. For the current second, though, for those who don’t have entry to bread flour or specialty parts like essential wheat gluten or potassium carbonate (or you might’t be bothered looking for them out, which is understandable), you possibly can uncover that our recipe for alkaline noodles that relies upon solely on all-purpose flour to be additional manageable; the broader, crinklier noodles are moreover very pleasing to eat with out broth, so that they are good for mazemen. In a pinch, you might even use “ramenized pasta” in case you might have prolonged noodles and some baking soda accessible.

As with totally different mazemen recipes, I strongly advocate you robe each portion individually. It’s as a result of I uncover it to be suboptimal to arrange a number of portion at a time, considerably with thinner noodles, which can be much more sturdy to portion out evenly after they’re fully mixed with the sauce. It’s also easier to appreciate a pleasing emulsion quickly with a single portion of noodles than it is with two or 4 elements of noodles.

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