Tok Seel (Seared White Beans With Pumpkin Seeds)

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In this dish, achromatic beans are seared until lightly browned, past tossed with toasted, crushed pumpkin seeds, caller cilantro, chives and scallions, and served with a compression of lime and a sprinkle of chopped, caller chile. It is Pati Jinich’s instrumentality connected a crockery called tok seel from the Mexican authorities of Quintana Roo, wherever sizzling blistery stones are traditionally applied to get the seared effect connected the beans ("tok" means burned). Jinich uses a premix of olive, peanut and toasted sesame oils to approximate the heavy sensation of the original, and the effect is simply a caller and flavorful, plant-protein-packed crockery that's connected the array successful nether fractional an hour.

Serve arsenic a broadside oregon arsenic a airy main dish, with maize tostadas oregon crusty bread.

Be definite to drain the beans, whether they are location cooked oregon canned, and pat them adust to debar excessive splattering.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (3/4 cup), based connected 4

• Calories

  376

• Fat

  23 g

• Saturated Fat

  4 g

• Carbohydrates

  29 g

• Sodium

  338 mg

• Protein

  15 g

• Fiber

  13 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Treasures of the Mexican Table” by Pati Jinich (Harvest, 2021).

Tested by Rachel Sadon.

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