Name: Aduki Bean Salad with Celery, Walnuts, Pear And Cream Cheese *Healthy Stuff*
Yield: A Crunchy Healthy Side Dish for 4–6
Ingredients: 1½ tbsp apple (or cider) vinegar; 2 small-medium ripe pears, cut into 1 cm/½ in.dice; 150 g/5½ oz/⅔ cup cream cheese; 1½ tsp.chopped fresh (or dried) dill; 1 bunch of spring onions (scallion(s)), chopped; 3 sticks of celery, chopped; freshly ground black pepper and celery sea salt (or regular sea salt) to taste; 175 g/6 oz/1 cup aduki beans, soaked overnight; 100 g/3½ oz/⅔ cup shelled walnuts, roughly chopped; 2 tbsp water

Preparation info

A Crunchy Healthy Side Dish for
4–6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

Aduki beans are neglected little chaps – although they are big in Japan* as they are used in lots of sweet dishes over there. We should all be eating a lot more of them as they are full of folic acid, trace minerals and soluble fibre. Chinese herbal medicine rates them for their healing properties. I’m guessing that this bland list of nutritional attributes isn’t really selling them to you on the taste front, but I can assure you that they also have a