How correctly to cook beans?

One of my friends leads a healthy lifestyle and eats only useful products. Every time I look at her, I ask myself the same question: Is it really possible to live like this: without, fried potatoes, delicious cutlets and cakes? It turns out that it is possible, at least, it succeeds.

One of the most useful products is my wise friend considers beans. It would seem that the beans are special in this representative? But, having rummaged on the Internet, I found a lot of interesting information, according to which my girlfriend is a very clever woman. Now I'll tell you why.

Beans contain a huge amount of useful and nutritious substances that allow a person who feeds only beans on a daily basis to function normally, since the body will receive everything necessary. Agree, this fact makes the bean very valuable. In cooking it has been used for a very long time.

Many of us are skeptical about this bean representative, because rarely anyone can cook delicious beans, and the "musical-aromatic" properties of legumes are widely known. But it turns out, all this is the result of improper preparation.

After what has been said, the next question arises: how correctly to cook beans?

Indeed, how should you cook it, so that it not only spoiled the taste of the dish, but also retained its useful ingredients?

How to cook beans correctly: choosing and preparing beans for the cooking process

• You can not mix different types of beans when cooking , this will not improve the taste of the dish, but rather spoil it. In the world there are about 20 different bean species, each of them requires a different cooking time.
• Before cooking, beans need to be sorted by removing the debris (husks, parasitized beans or one that has lost sight and form) and rinse with cold water.
• Soaking a representative of legumes not only shortens cooking time, but also facilitates the dissolution of oligosaccharides, which are the cause of gas generation and the difficulty of digesting food. Ideally, the washed beans should be soaked for at least 8 hours (for example, overnight), and then rinse again. The ratio of water and beans for soaking is 2 to 1.

How to cook the beans correctly: the cooking process, the cooking time

Wash the beans with water (two and a half liters of water is needed per kilogram of water), put on a stove and bring to a boil, after a quarter of an hour, drain the water. Wash the beans and pour it again with water, put on fire. After the water boils, the fire should be made minimal and cook the contents of the pan for about two hours. The pan should be covered with a lid.

How to cook beans: nuances

• To make the dish more tasty, when cooking, you can add a couple of spoons of vegetable oil
• For the preparation of beans, it is better not to use tap water, but cleaned water.
• During cooking, the contents of the pan do not have to interfere.
• Ready beans are discarded in a colander.
• The bean dish is eaten at the very end of cooking, and if it is supposed to make a puree of beans, then after the vegetable takes a puree look.
• Freshly frozen beans do not need to be thawed, it is frozen into the water and cooked.
• Undercooked beans can be dangerous for the body, so completing the cooking process is not a whim, but a prerequisite!

There are times when you need to cook beans, and there is no time for soaking. As understood from the above, the soaking process shortens the cooking time. How to be, if time is short, how to cook beans quickly, in time trouble? In this case, the peeled and washed beans are put in a pan and poured with so much water that it slightly covers the beans. When the water boils, you need to pour cold water - just enough so that the water with beans ceased to boil. This process (pour cold water and wait until it boils again) must be repeated until the beans are ready. It is believed that this reduces the cooking process by half. This is the answer to the question of how to cook beans without soaking.