Soak the beans for 3-4 hours, then cook for 40-60 minutes (depending on the variety and age of the cereal, it is recommended to try).
How to cook motley beans
Products
Common beans – 1 cup
Water – 5 glasses
Black pepper – 2 peas
Salt – 1 teaspoon
Vegetable oil – 1 tablespoon
How to cook
- Boil water in a kettle.
- Rinse beans and add water from a kettle.
- Cover the bowl with the beans and leave to soak for 3 to 4 hours.
- Drain the water in which the beans were soaked and rinse again under running water.
- Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the water – this will make the beans soft.
- Boil water in a kettle and pour over the beans.
- Cook for 40-60 minutes; in a pressure cooker or multicooker-pressure cooker – 15 minutes, then release the pressure naturally for 20 minutes.
- Add salt and spices 10 minutes before the end of cooking.
Delicious facts
Beans can also be poured with cold water, but in this case it will need to be left to soak for 6 – 8 hours or one night.
Do not add tomatoes, lemon juice, or salt to the beans in the first half of the boil, otherwise the beans will become tough and will take about twenty minutes to cook longer than usual.
Beans are perishable and should not be kept in the refrigerator for more than three days.
To save time, you can boil several servings of beans at once, and after they cool down, put them in portions in disposable bags and freeze. The next time you need the beans, simply defrost them in the microwave or fill them with hot water.
For soups, the beans need to be undercooked a little (about 20 minutes) so that they do not boil over already in the saucepan with the soup, including if you are going to freeze the excess in the future.
Spotted beans are most often used for stewing with vegetables, meat and making sauces.
It is necessary to soak the beans not only because it shortens the cooking time, but also because when they get into the water, the beans release sugars that are not digested by the human body. It is because of them that inept housewives call legume dishes musical, because these sugars are the cause of gas formation and complicate the digestion process.