Are there beans used in Asian cooking?

To save money I am trying to use as little meat as possible. Beans are a great replacement protein but every time I cook with beans I end up with Mexican food. It is getting a little old. My husband like Asian food but I don't know how to replace meat and get protein into Asian meals. I guess tofu is the obvious answer but is there an appropriate type of bean? Thanks all.Are there beans used in Asian cooking?
1. Red beans or green beans soup as a dessert (cook with red sugar), can serve cold or hot.



2. Pork ribs cook with black bean sauce.Are there beans used in Asian cooking?
I have visited Buddhist temples often, and there they do use a lot of tofu. But, they also fill eggrolls with mung bean paste instead of meat. In Vietnamese cooking, there are also sticky rice cakes traditionally filled with pork belly and mung bean paste. Vegetarians eat the cakes made without pork belly.



These beans can be found in dry form at any Asian market. They're very small and green. (In Vietnamese we call them ';green beans.';)



But if you want to branch out from beans, the Buddhist nuns also make food with ready-made vegetarian gluten products, which usually are in the refrigerated aisle of the Asian market. They look like little shriveled pieces of fried tofu, and are really good when stir-fried because, like meat, they soak up all the flavor.





Overall to answer your question, I don't think beans are incredibly popular in Asian cooking, though they are used! Soy beans, edamame, mung bean, whatever. But in Vietnamese cooking, beans are used for dessert because of their creamy texture and their ability to soak up sugary flavors. Beans in sugar syrup and cream is a popular Vietnamese dessert, and it really just tastes like ice cream in bean-shaped bites!



Good luck!
Adzuki Beans

A small, oval bean, reddish-brown to maroon in color, and native to China. It is usually sold in a dried form, but can also be purchased as a paste or flour. It has a sweet taste and is used in many Asian dishes, but is especially useful and flavorful in desserts.
Edamame (soy beans) are often used in Asian cooking and are an inexpensive, delicious way to get your protein without using meat.
Not only all of the soy beans and tofu foods made from soy beans, there are also red beans. Go to an asian market to find lots of asian beans. There are even red bean desserts.
look at the link it said black beans



http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/FOOD_IS_AR鈥?/a>
Soy beans are the most common and have the best protein quality... However, they don't cook up like regular beans. Soybeans remain kind of firm while regular beans would mush out.
Black beans

mung beans

soy beans (tofu, edamame)

bean sprouts



all fairly cheap and used in asian cooking

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