Bean Balls - Side Dish Recipe

Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

Brown beans – 2 cups
Corn meal – 4 cups
Flour – ½ cup
Soda – 1 tsp

Preparation

Boil the beans in water till it becomes soft. Then put corn meal, flour and soda in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly. Now add boiling beans and some of the juice to the cornmeal mixture to form stiff dough. Roll in balls and drop in pot of boiling hot water. Cook for 30 minutes at slow boil.

Tip: Any food ingested soon before a physical activity will remain in the stomach, and be of no use for energy production, until the activity is concluded because the blood is directed to the working muscles instead of toward the digestive tract. Water replacement is important, however. Water can be consumed at any time - pure water can better be transported to the tissues than a sugary solution.