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kidney bean

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  • Summary

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Connections

9 bonds · 7 sourced
Structural
.80

Ghormeh sabzi.

OriginFood of Life (Najmieh Batmanglij, 1986) · Food of Life, 25th anniversary edition (Najmieh Batmanglij, 2011)Recorded on dried lime

Searched in Food of Life, 2011 edition, page 338, qormeh sabzi: six whole limu omani, pierced, with dried kidney beans and lamb.

Reinforced
.70

Punjabi rajma: the beans simmered with ginger, then a baghaar of cumin, garlic and chilli in ghee.

OriginMadhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery (Madhur Jaffrey, 1982) · Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking (Madhur Jaffrey, Barron's)

Relocated in Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, page 128. There is no onion and no tomato in the book's rajma; it is finished with lemon juice, garam masala and cream; the cited Indian Cookery, BBC 1982, was not the copy in hand.

Reinforced
.60

Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, kidney in the 2008 edition.

Reinforced
.60

Score unexamined

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)
Reinforced
.60
Experimental
.50

Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, kidney in the 2008 edition.

Experimental
.50

Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, kidney in the 2008 edition.

Experimental
.50

Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, kidney in the 2008 edition.

Experimental
.50

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Studio Culinar-E, "kidney bean", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/kidney-bean

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