I. Ingredients

2 cans of black beans (400g pack), drained and rinsed, 350 ml of vegetable broth, 225g of tomato chili dipping sauce, 1 teaspoon of cumin powder, 4 tablespoons of sour cream or plain yogurt, and 3 green onions, finely chopped.

2. Directions

1. In an electric food processor or blender, blend the black beans, vegetable broth, dipping sauce and cumin to a paste.

2. Heat the bean paste in a deep pot over medium heat, to heat through completely.

3. Ladle the soup into 4 bowls, top each with 1 tablespoon of sour cream, and sprinkle with some chopped green onions to serve.

Black beans, a genus of soybeans in the legume family.

Black beans, a twining annual herb, are 1 to 4 meters long. Stem, twigs slender, all sparsely brown hirsute. Leaves with 3 leaflets, up to 14 cm long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, yellow pilose. Terminal leaflet ovoid or ovate-lanceolate, 3.5 to 6 centimeters long, 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters wide, apex acute to obtuse-rounded, base nearly rounded, entire, both surfaces sericeous strigose, lateral leaflets obliquely ovate-lanceolate. Racemes usually short, sparsely up to 13 cm; flowers small, ca. 5 mm; pedicels densely yellow hirsute; bracts lanceolate; calyx campanulate, densely hirsute, lobes 5, triangular-lanceolate, apex acute; corolla light reddish purple or white, flag petal suborbicular, apex retuse, base with a short petiole, pterygoid obliquely obovate, with conspicuous auricles, keel petals shorter than flag petals and pterygoid, densely hirsute; style short and Style short and curved to one side. Pods oblong, slightly curved, slightly flattened on both sides, 17 to 23 mm long, 4 to 5 mm wide, densely hirsute, slightly constricted between seeds, easily cracked when dry; 2 to 3 seeds, ellipsoid, slightly flattened, 2.5 to 4 mm long, 1.8 to 2.5 mm wide, brown to black. Flowering July to August, fruiting August to October.

Black beans are highly adaptable and resistant to drought, barrenness and salinity.

Black beans are kidney-shaped or orbicular, black-red or purple-red surface, glossy, thin and brittle seed coat, easier to break.

Black beans are produced all over China. China's black bean resources, a variety of types, some valuable black bean varieties are still utilized in production, such as Jiangsu's Taixing black beans, belonging to the Yangtze River Basin early spring soybeans, showing early maturity, high yield, adaptability, and still is the national soybean regional trials in the South early spring bean group of control varieties. Dandong medicine black beans for green cotyledon black soybeans, grain size, excellent varieties, high nutritional value. Jiangsu Jintan's next door incense, black beans, large grains, 100 grains weighing more than 30 grams, is very valuable big black beans. Research units have also selected and bred some high-yield and high-quality black bean varieties, such as Shandong Lu black bean 2, mu yield can reach more than 250 kilograms, high resistance to collapse. Zhangjiakou black bean is a soybean isoflavone content of high specialty varieties, can be used as an excellent material for the extraction of isoflavones.

Black beans are weak in gas, sweet in flavor and flat in nature. It has the effect of tonifying the kidney, clearing heat, and making hair and eyesight bright.