How to cook beans

Beans - the most capricious plant of the legume family. In this case, it is used in cuisines of almost all the peoples of the world, making her the side dishes, soups, use in salads. And no wonder: beans contain a lot of nutrients required by man, plus it is a great source of protein and amino acids. With preparation of green pods, and immature beans a lot of time to spend. But to cooked red or white kidney beans get soft and crumbly, you need to know some givers.

You will need

• • 250 g beans
  • 4 liters of water

Instruction

1. Sort through the beans, to clean it from possible impurities and loses its form bean. Rinse selected grains in a colander under cold water.
2. To start the long process of soaking the beans. Ideally it should take 12 hours. Every 3 hours you need to change the cold water, and beans every time and even rinse. After soaking the beans should double in size and become the most convenient for cooking. In addition, soaked beans in water to dissolve the oligosaccharides - substances that cause the human body gas.
3. For cooking beans, take a large pot (at the rate of 2 liters of water 250 g of beans). Water bring to a boil. To put there the beans, cook for her, away from direct sunlight, 15 minutes. To drain the water. Beans rinsed. Again fill it with new water to cover the grain. Bring to boil, then put on the smallest fire. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 1, 5 hours until fully cooked. Add salt only when the pot of beans removed from the plate.