Black Bean Sauce

We are working on cutting down our meat consumption and discovering the wonderful world of beans.

I LOVE black bean sauce, especially as a meat marinade LOL, but it was really good over rice too. (Pictured with rice and vegetables cooked in chicken broth. I know, I know – chicken isn’t a vegetable. Sigh.)

This is quite different from my old store bought brand (which was great, but so full of unpronouncables – another thing we’re cutting down on:\) but very good, and very easy!

I used dry beans, but you could definitely cut down the timeline by using canned beans.

I prefer a thin sauce, but this could be thickened up with a pinch of cornstarch to your liking.

The beans could be strained out and eaten separately if you don’t want them in your sauce.

Ingredients

• 1 cup dry black beans
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 2 tbsps. soy sauce
• 1 tbsp. grated ginger
• 1 tbsp. lemon juice
• 1 tbsp. crushed chilli pepper flakes
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 tbsp. maple syrup or honey *optional

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