Author Notes
For a great vegetarian side dish combine cranberry beans, blood red orange zest and juice, ginger, cranberries, carrots, Turkish red lentils, and Bhutanese red rice, (or brown rice if you can't find the red). Cranberry beans are also known as borlotti beans. I recommend dried, but canned could be rinsed and then added to the rice cooker. Fresh cranberry beans, when you can find them, do not need soaking. —Sagegreen
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Ingredients
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15 ounces
cooked cranberry beans (dried are best to work with)
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1/2 cup
rough cut one inch match stick carrots
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1/2 cup
fresh cranberries, cut in halves
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2 tablespoons
honey
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1/2 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
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3/4 cup
tiny cubed pumpkin or butternut squash, the size of a large bean
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zest of 1 blood red orange, or plain orange
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juice of 1-2 fresh blood red orange(s), @ 1/2-3/4 cup , or plain orange
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2
inches of fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated
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3/4 teaspoon
sea salt
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1 cup
brown rice, well rinsed (short grain) or red Bhutan rice
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1 cup
Turkish red lentils, washed
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1 teaspoon
Turkish saffron
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1 teaspoon
ground sumac
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4 1/2 cups
water
Directions
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If you have to cook the cranberry beans first, soak 1 cup of the dried beans overnight in the 3 cups of water. Then bring the water to a boil and cook for about 30 minutes. The beans should be al dente. Or drain and rinse a can of borlotti beans in water.
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Marinate the cranberries and carrot sticks in two tablespoons of orange juice and honey with cinnamon for at least one hour and up to half a day.
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Soak the rice and lentils in the remaining orange juice, orange zest, spices, grated ginger, salt, and water for at least one hour.
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Combine all the ingredients in a rice cooker and cook until tender. Or bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to a simmer and cook in a covered pan until tender for about 25 minutes or so. Fluff and serve.
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