Food: Black Bean [edit]

Other Names: Black Turtle Bean, 黑豆 (Chinese), 黒豆 (Japanese), الحبة السوداء (Arabic), Черный Bean (Russian), Frijol Negro (Spanish) All Translations
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Black bean can mean: * The black turtle bean, a small, black variety of the common bean especially popular in Latin American cuisine * Douchi, a kind of fermented soybean especially popular in the cuisine of China * The urad bean or black gram * Any black-colored variety of bean; beans which include black-colored varieties include the soybean, the azuki bean, the mung bean and the rice bean. * Blackbean, a common name for ''Castanospermum australe'', also known as the Moreton Bay Chestnut

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[edit] About Black Bean

The small, shiny black turtle bean is especially popular in Latin American cuisine . It is often called simply the black bean (frijol negro in Spanish , feijão preto in Portuguese ), although this can cause confusion with other black beans .

The black turtle bean has a dense, meaty texture and flavor reminiscent of mushrooms , which makes it popular in vegetarian dishes such as the Mexican-American black bean burrito . It is a very popular bean in various regions of Brazil , and is used in the national dish, feijoada . It is also a principal ingredient of Platillo Moros y Cristianos as in Cuba, a must-have in the typical casados of Costa Rica , and served elsewhere in almost all Latin America.

Black turtle beans have recently been reported to be an extremely good source of nutritional antioxidants .
Black turtle bean varieties include: Domino, Black Magic, Blackhawk, Nighthawk, and Valentine