Mucuna Pruriens (Bean) and Its Health Benefits

Mucuna Beans

Introduction
ƒ It is an annual shrub with climbing tendencies.
ƒ The Mucuna bean is a species of plant that is indigenous to tropical climates.
ƒ Mucuna bean grows a legume‐style fruit and the plant is often referred to as Velvet bean.
ƒ Growing Mucuna bean isn't particularly difficult if you know when and where to plant it and how to
cultivate it.
ƒ Mucuna has been promoted and grown by farmers in Bungoma, Siaya and Kakamega County.

Human Health Benefits of Mucuna Bean

1. Improve mood and increase energy.

2. Protects the brain by keeping cognitive and neural functions in check
3. Balances stress and relaxes the brain.
4. Facilitates healing of chronic wounds
5. Improves sleep quality(treats insomnia)
6. Facilitates muscle development in sick emaciated people.
7. Has an anti‐aging properties
8. Builds fertility in men
9. Treat excessive menstrual bleeding
10. Helps women to increase lactation when breast feeding.
11. Boost testosterone and libido
12. One of the more potent mood enhancing and libido stimulating super foods
13. Makes men last longer sexually
 Mucuna Recipes
Mucuna Nutri Porridge Mucuna Vanilla Cake

Ingredients Ingredients
— Millet flour 4 heaped tbs — 2 cups all‐purpose flour
— Mucuna flour 1 heaped tbs — 1 teaspoon baking soda
— Lemon 1 small — 1/2 cup mucuna flour
— Sugar 2 tbs — 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
— Sweetpotato 1 heaped tbs — 3/4 cup sugar
— 1teaspoon salt
Method — 1 cup milk
1. Boil 4 cups of water — 250grams margarine
2. Mix the flours and make a paste with one cup — 3 eggs1 tablespoon vanilla essence
of water
3. Put the paste into boiling water and keep Method
stirring to prevent lumps 1. Sift mucuna and wheat flour together with
4. Add the sugar and let the pot continue to boil baking powder into bowl and repeat the
for 20 minutes procedure to allow enough air in.
5. The cooked product should gel 2. In a separate bowl stir margarine
6. Remove from fire, add lemon juice and mix 3. Add sugar into margarine and continue
well stirring using a wooden spoon
7. Cool, then serve warm 4. Continue stirring until it is white and fluffy
5. Add eggs one at time and mix well
Mucuna crackies 6. Add lemon rind into the flour
7. Add the flour into mixture and mix well
Ingredients 8. Add vanilla essence into mixture
9. Add milk to required texture
— 1 tablespoon Mucuna flour
10. Using margarine and flour cream a pan
— 1 cup Wheat flour
11. Pour cake mixture into a pan
— 1 tablespoon Margarine
12. Make hole in middle of mixture to avoid
— 1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
cracking
— 1 teaspoon Chilli powder/lemon rind ginger
13. Bake your cake
(optional)
14. Using toothpick check whether a cake baked
— 2 tablespoon Sugar
well.
— 1/2 teaspoon Salt
— Lukewarm Water
— Enough Cooking oil for deep frying

Method
1. Sift mucuna and wheat flour into bowl
2. Mix dry ingredients
3. Add margarine and rub into dry ingredients
4. Add luke warm water to make required dough
5. Boil cooking oil in a pan
6. Put dough in Nodule machine
7. Drop dough into hot oil using Nodule machine
8. Let it cook to golden brown and remove
9. Serve crackies snack or package for sale.
 Mucuna Mandazi 4. Add boiled water from the flask
Ingredients 5. Add sugar to taste
6. Serve hot with or without a snack
— 1 cup wheat flour
— 1 tablespoon mucuna flour
— 2 tablespoon sugar Mucuna Chapati
— 1 table baking powder Ingredients
— 1 table spoon margarine — 1 table spoon mucuna flour
— Lukewarm water/milk — 1 cup wheat flour
— 1 table Lemon rind (optional) — Salt to taste
— 1 table Vanilla essence (optional) — 1 cup mashed Pumpkin/butter nut/orange
— 1 teaspoon rosemary (optional) fleshed sweet potatoes (optional)
— 1 egg (optional) — Water
— Lemon juice (optional) — Cooking oil
— Cooking oil Method
Method 1. Sift the flour in a bowl
1. Sift the flour into bowl 2. Add a little salt to taste
2. Rub in the flour, baking powder, sugar and 3. Add mashed pumpkin/butter nut/ orange
margarine to a sandy texture fleshed sweet potato
3. Add the grated lemon rind and mix well 4. Kneed the mixture and add little water to the
4. Whisk the egg and lemon juice in a separate dough texture
bowl 5. Add cooking oil as you prepare chapati balls
5. Gradually add the egg into the rubbed in 6. On a floured surface roll out into chapati
mixture and knead to a stiff dough. 7. Shallow fry both sides of chapati
6. Gradually add in the water/milk and knead to a 8. Serve with stew
smooth firm dough.
7. Cover the dough and allow it to rest for 30
minutes.
Mucuna Mash
8. On a floured surface roll out the dough to 1cm
thickness
9. Cut into desired shapes and deep fry to golden Ingredients
brown. — 6 medium size sweet potatoes
10. Serve hot with a beverage. — 1 cup boiled dehusked Mucuna beans
— 2 bunches of pumpkin leaves/ sweet
potato leaves/ pig weed(amaranth leaves)
Mucuna Bean Beverage
litoto
Ingredients — 1 table spoon of margarine
— Mucuna beverage — Salt to taste
— Water — water
— Sugar
Method
— Ginger (optional)
1. Peel potatoes and chop into small pieces
— Lemon grass (optional)
2. Add boiled dehusked mucuna beans and salt to
— Rosemary (optional)
taste
— Milk (optional)
3. Add water
Method 4. Boil till all the food staffs are well cooked
1. Boil water together with either ginger/ 5. Drain excess water, add margarine and mash
rosemary/lemon grass to a smooth texture
2. Put boiled water into a flask 6. Serve when hot with sour milk or tea
3. Put one teaspoon of mucuna beverage into the
tea cup