How To Make How to Cook Dried Beans
An uncomplicated, step-by-step guide to cooking the perfect dried beans: it’s a simple task of sorting, soaking, cooking, salting, and storing!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1lbbeans,dried, such as chickpeas, great northern, cannellini, navy, or black beans
- water
- 4tspkosher salt,divided
Instructions
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Pull out and discard any small stones or wrinkled or broken beans.
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Place the beans in a bowl. Cover with 2 to 3 inches of water. Cover and leave on the countertop until you are ready to cook them the following day. Drain the water. Rinse the beans.
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In a large pot set over medium-high heat, add the beans and cover them with water until it reaches about 3 inches above the beans.
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Bring the beans up to a boil, then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer. Leave the pot uncovered and cook.
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After about 40 minutes, check a bean to taste it. Continue cooking until the beans are creamy but intact for about another 20 to 50 minutes.
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Serve when ready.
Nutrition
- Calories: 23.44kcal
- Fat: 0.17g
- Saturated Fat: 0.04g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.09g
- Carbohydrates: 5.27g
- Fiber: 2.04g
- Sugar: 2.46g
- Protein: 1.38g
- Sodium: 175.80mg
- Calcium: 28.08mg
- Potassium: 159.55mg
- Iron: 0.78mg
- Vitamin A: 26.46µg
- Vitamin C: 9.22mg
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