Both the beans and the paste leave behind black specks ... ½ of a vanilla bean pod is equal to 1 teaspoon of paste or extract. You can use a 1-to-1 ratio to substitute paste for extract and ...

For a vegan version of the dish, substitute about 300g (10½ ... which gets its darker colour – almost black – from the use of black bean paste, instead of the Chinese soybean or broad ...