Cook black beans for 1 hour 10 minutes.
How to cook black eye beans
Products
Black eye beans – 1 cup
Water – 5 glasses
Salt to taste
How to cook
- Bring the kettle to a boil, and in the meantime rinse the beans under running water.
- Cook the beans over high heat for 10 minutes.
- Drain the water and rinse the beans.
- Pour 1 liter of still hot water from the kettle, add beans and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat, season with salt and cover.
- Cook the beans for another hour over moderate heat.
Delicious facts
Black-eye beans are the only type of beans that does not require prolonged soaking, and this is because they are not beans at all, despite all the external similarities. In fact, it is cowpea or cowpea. The skin of these fruits is thinner than that of the bean fruits, due to which water gets to the grain faster.
The black eye can be boiled without draining the water after 10 minutes of cooking, but in order not to risk gas formation in your stomach, it is better to drain the water once.
At the moment, the black eye is common in India, central Africa and even in the United States of America.