Black beans and Spinach Mini-pancakes - Savoury Muffins
This is a delicious protein packed recipe that shall keep you satiated and energized for hours! It packs in the health quotient of black beans, Malabar spinach, and red capsicum.
Servings: 6 people
Cost: $10
Equipment
- Appam Maker
- Or Muffin Baking Tray
- Or Pan to make mini-pancake
- Or Pan to fry the batter into Falafels
Ingredients
- 1 Medium Red Capsicum
- 1½ cup Dried Black Beans
- 1 Medium Bunch of Malabar Spinach Take any spinach or greens of your choice.
- 2 tsp Rock salt To taste
- 2 tsp Roasted cumin seeds powder optional
- 3 cloves Garlic
- 3 tbsp Pure Coconut Oil Use any pure cooking oil - ghee, sesame, mustard, olive per your choice
- 2 tbsp Sesame Seeds Black or White
- 1 Green Chili Finely chopped - optional. Replace it with black pepper powder to be sprinkled on the top.
- 1½ inch Fresh ginger root
- 1½ tsp Dried Mango Powder or Pomegranate Seeds Powder Replace it with 2 tsp vinegar
- 1 cup Quick cooking oats or whole wheat flour
- 1½ tsp Baking soda for softer texture
Instructions
Soaking the black beans
- Wash and soak the black beans for about 6 hours.
Preparing the Vegetables
- Wash all the veggies including garlic and ginger.
- Finely chop malabar spinach and red capsicum OR simply put them in the food processor. Keep aside.
- Pound the ginger and garlic together OR add them in food processor along with other veggies. Keep aside.
Preparing the Black Beans
- Discard the water. Add the soaked black beans into food processor along with 2-3 tbsp water.
- Grind till you get a paste like consistency. No need to make the paste very smooth. In fact, slightly coarse paste will add to the texture.
Preparing the batter
- Mix all the ground veggies with the black beans.
- Add in salt, cumin powder, chili, sesame seeds, and baking soda. Mix well.
- Now add in the flour. Mix well.
- Now slowly add water (only if needed) till you get a thick paste like consistency.
- Cover and Keep aside for 10 mins.
Making the Appam
- Heat the Appam maker or pan.
- Grease the pan and slowly start adding the batter.
- Now cover the pan and let the appams cook. After few minutes, flip/turn the appams.
- Cover again so as to let the other side cook as well.
- Close the heat and remove the appam/pancake from the pan.
- Serve with coriander mint chutney or have it just like that. Enjoy!
Notes
I have given different equipment options here. Basically, we are creating the batter and you can turn it into any shape that you have on hand - bake it, fry it, make appam, or pan cakes.