1/2 C. canned or fully cooked (until soft) red beans
1/2 C. nut of your choice*
1 egg
1/3 C. Italian-style breadcrumbs + extra for breading (another 1/3 C. or so)
1 small onion, minced
1/4 tsp. salt
pepper to taste
Oil for cooking
Chop the nuts finely. Mash the beans or process them in the food processor until they are finely chopped also. Combine all ingredients. Start heating the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Sprinkle the remaining breadcrumbs on a plate. With wet hands, grab a golfball-sized chunk of cutlet blend (what exactly do you call a bean & nut cutlet before it's a cutlet?) and maneuver it into the palm of your hand. Pat it to about 3/4-inch (2 cm) thick. Drop it onto the plate with the breadcrumbs. Gently turn it over to bread the other side. (They can be kind of loose, so basically use the stickiness of your cutlety fingers to pick it up.) Repeat until no more cutlet blend is is left. Using a spatula, slide the cutlets one at a time into the skillet once the oil is hot enough. Cook on each side, turning once, until both sides are a toasty brown and they are pretty firm. They should feel like a loose salmon croquette when you poke them (not too hard!) with the spatula. Once you remove them from the pan you can drain them or not. I didn't, and they didn't seem greasy to me. Yum! Serve with your favorite meaty sauces, like BBQ or honey mustard.
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*I had some leftover hazelnuts, so I used half and half hazelnuts and walnuts. I think any tree nut would probably taste fine, though, and even peanuts, especially if you were going for a Thai theme.
Once, way back in the day, I toyed with "being a vegetarian". You know, as a "lifestyle choice", kind of like how some people are hipsters and some people take personal meaning from owning show cats. I just want to say now that, no matter what I eat, in what quantities, and with whatever frequency, I will never "be a vegetarian". I think very few choices in life really are portentious enough to warrant a state a being, and that those choices should be given respect. I think some people would have us all believe that "being a vegetarian" and "not being a serial killer" are essentially equal life choices. (Let's just pretend that we proceed to have a big "meat is murder" argument but not actually do it. All I'm saying is, until you start prosecuting the lions in Africa, or admit that human beings should adhere to higher moral standards in the rest of their lives as well as their dietary choices "because we're more evolved", leave me alone.)
1/2 C. nut of your choice*
1 egg
1/3 C. Italian-style breadcrumbs + extra for breading (another 1/3 C. or so)
1 small onion, minced
1/4 tsp. salt
pepper to taste
Oil for cooking
Chop the nuts finely. Mash the beans or process them in the food processor until they are finely chopped also. Combine all ingredients. Start heating the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Sprinkle the remaining breadcrumbs on a plate. With wet hands, grab a golfball-sized chunk of cutlet blend (what exactly do you call a bean & nut cutlet before it's a cutlet?) and maneuver it into the palm of your hand. Pat it to about 3/4-inch (2 cm) thick. Drop it onto the plate with the breadcrumbs. Gently turn it over to bread the other side. (They can be kind of loose, so basically use the stickiness of your cutlety fingers to pick it up.) Repeat until no more cutlet blend is is left. Using a spatula, slide the cutlets one at a time into the skillet once the oil is hot enough. Cook on each side, turning once, until both sides are a toasty brown and they are pretty firm. They should feel like a loose salmon croquette when you poke them (not too hard!) with the spatula. Once you remove them from the pan you can drain them or not. I didn't, and they didn't seem greasy to me. Yum! Serve with your favorite meaty sauces, like BBQ or honey mustard.
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*I had some leftover hazelnuts, so I used half and half hazelnuts and walnuts. I think any tree nut would probably taste fine, though, and even peanuts, especially if you were going for a Thai theme.
Once, way back in the day, I toyed with "being a vegetarian". You know, as a "lifestyle choice", kind of like how some people are hipsters and some people take personal meaning from owning show cats. I just want to say now that, no matter what I eat, in what quantities, and with whatever frequency, I will never "be a vegetarian". I think very few choices in life really are portentious enough to warrant a state a being, and that those choices should be given respect. I think some people would have us all believe that "being a vegetarian" and "not being a serial killer" are essentially equal life choices. (Let's just pretend that we proceed to have a big "meat is murder" argument but not actually do it. All I'm saying is, until you start prosecuting the lions in Africa, or admit that human beings should adhere to higher moral standards in the rest of their lives as well as their dietary choices "because we're more evolved", leave me alone.)
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