Thai Beancakes - Recipe and a question

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I made these beancakes today and they were scrumptious but started

to fall to pieces when I fried them and I ended up retrieving them

from the frying pan and having to finish them off by baking them in

the oven. I like the recipe because it doesn't use egg, but perhaps

it would have held together better with egg substitute. Any

suggestions would be welcome as I would really like to cook this

again. They were quite spicy and I ended up serving mine with some

Greek yoghurt along with the dipping sauce.

Christie

 

Thai Beancakes with Sweet Red Pepper Sauce

 

1 425g/15 oz can of cannellini beans

1 large spring onion, finely chopped

1 small handful of roughly chopped cilantro

2 tsp red Thai paste

1 dried lime leaf, crumbled

1 Tbsp gram flour

1-2 Tbsp olive oil

Lime wedges to serve

 

Sauce

1 red bell pepper

pinch of dried chilli flakes

1 Tbsp apple juice concentrate

1 tsp cider vinegar

 

For the sauce: remove the shiny skin of the pepper with a potato

peeler. Halve and deseed pepper and chop it very finely. Put in a

saucepan with remaining sauce ingredients and simmer gently for

about 15 minutes. This did not make much of a sauce to me so I put

it in a measuring jug and buzzed it with my stick blender which gave

a more satisfactory result and the flavour was absolutely yummy.

 

Rinse, drain and pat dry the cannellini beans. Put them in a food

processor with onion, coriander leaves, lime leaf and red Thai paste

and buzz until it forms a chunky mixture that sticks together. Form

into 4 flat patties and coat with gram flour. Warm olive oil in a

skillet and cook beancakes on both sides until golden. (I fried mine

briefly on each side and then baked at gas mark 5/375F/190C for

about 10 minutes. Serve with red pepper sauce and lime wedges and

plain yoghurt with finely chopped cilantro (optional).

Serves 2

 

Taken from Fast, Fresh and Fabulous by Rose Elliot. This is a great

book and all of the recipes I have tried from it tasted fabulous.