Recipe checking?

We are wondering what the process is for checking your recipes. Several we’ve tried have been lacking in their directions but this last one is a real puzzler. “Berries and Beans Breakfast Muffins” looked to be promising and included something new to us.. adzuki beans. The problem here is that there is no instruction about the beans except to “put a few atop each filled cup”. Following that direction result in nothing but a hard dry bean on top of the muffin. Surely there must be missing something here.