- 1 cup dried Speckled peas
- 3/4 cup of dried Adzuki beans
- 1 cup dried Pinto beans
- 2 cups Oat Groats
- 2 cups Oat Groats
- 3/4 cup Oat Flakes
- 2 med. yellow cooking onions chopped
- 1 large clove of garlic minced
- 2 cups of frozen chopped rhubarb
- 2 med. Chiogga beets coarsely grated
- 1 large sweet potato (my parents called them yams), coarsely grated
- 2 smallish rutabagas coarsely grated
- 1 1/2 cups approximately of frozen chopped arugula from my garden
- the last small piece of a green cabbage I've been using for awhile chopped finely
- 4 Tbsp + 2 tsp. Himalayan pink salt
I cooked the beans/peas and oats separately. a little differently this time... I wanted to see if I could reduce my cooking time and therefore my use of electricity by soaking the peas and beans overnight first and then chopping them in my food processor before cooking them .. SO... I ended up cooking them for about 2 hours. At this point they were crushable, BUT not soft... and they still weren't soft after sitting for another hour... so I put them back on the stove for another hour of cooking... This is a actually longer than my usual 2 1/2 hours, but still shorter than the 4 hours it took the last time I used the pinto beans with the speckled peas... When I chose this combination I'd forgotten that it took such a long time to cook the last time... I don't know, but it seems there's something about this pea/bean combo that requires a longer cooking time... In any case I'll try this method again with other combinations which have required only 2 1/2 hours to cook... and we'll see if I can lower my use of electricity or not... The oat groats I cooked for 3/4 of an hour, adding the flakes for the last 20 minutes of cooking time... I mixed all of the other ingredients together except the cabbage. I then added the cooked bean/pea mix which I mashed to a paste and the cooked oats to this mixture, adding the cabbage last after the whole mix had cooled to just warm. The mix filled 7 liter mason jars firmly packed to the shoulder.. I left them beside my hot water heater for only a day and a half, because I could see they were fermenting well, so I moved them to the fridge to stabilize and be eaten...
