Have you ever cooked lupine, which is a legume?

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

for how long to cook it in a pressure cooker if it has been soaked (24 hours) with a teaspoon of soda powder..? one hour at most??

i could not find any recipe for that on the interent..

 

[dragnlaw]

I found this web site you could check out - I've never seen it before, I have no idea if the site is reliable but it was the first I found.
Mary's Test Kitchen

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

thank you. so i will do it for 20 minutes......

i will add salt to the cooking water itself so it is gets inside the beans..

some people add whole garlic cloves and lemon juice to the cooking water too....

 

[blissful]

I've never tried them. I looked to see where I could get the dry beans and there is nothing local. The Asian store's online information isn't working today. There is amazon which I haven't found reasonable for dried beans. Nuts.com, I order from them once a year had them listed so that's an option.
They look like fava beans, broad beans, but they aren't the same as lupin or lupini beans.
@SEEING-TO-BELIEVE are you trying to make the snack beans you previously bought at a shop near you?
I'm looking forward to hearing about their texture and flavor. Good luck.

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

they are not easy to chew even when peeled. bitter and without much flavor.

this is how i remember the taste when ive tried it as a kid in Acre (a city)..

but im giving it another try tommorow.

i will write how it was..

thank you

 

[SEEING-TO-BELIEVE]

i've used the "sweet" variety which is guess isn't bitter or at least not as much.. soaked 500 grams for 24 hours... cooked in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes with two tea spoons of table salt..

i allowed it to release the pressure naturally.

it came out not bitter and pretty good. you have to peel it.. it is easier to peel it inside the mouth and then take the skin out.......

i strained and freeze some of it....

it has a lot of protein and i think i really like it.....

so no. it was not bitter for me at all.........

btw
it is hard to clean the black foam from the pot after cooking

 

[pepperhead212]

I've seen that term "lupine" used in some old cookbooks, and I always figured it was a way of describing legumes, sort of a shortening of the genus name Lupinus, even though most of the beans we eat are not in this genus - I think this was more of a British term, in those older books, as I saw several different dried beans with this name. And later, I saw lupines in seed catalogs, but not in the food section, but ornamental plants.