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How To Cook Beans
We thought this would be a good time to teach you how to cook beans. Dry beans are an inexpensive way to purchase beans and it also allows you to control what you put into your body. We all need to be more healthy and to avoid chemicals in our food so lets start here. Many are intimidated by dry beans and don’t know what to do with them but no longer. We take the mystery and the intimidation away from the dry bean.
How To Cook Beans 101
Dry beans are first needing to be washed. You will want to pour them into a colander and rinse them well looking for any rocks or other debris that could have gotten in there while picking the beans. rinse and set aside.
How to Cook Beans:
2 Pounds dry pinto beans Rinsed, soaked and cooked.
2 Onions Chopped
4 Garlic Cloves Chopped
1 Teaspoon Onion Powder
1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Mrs. Dash South West Chipolte
1/2 Teaspoon Celery Seed
2 10 Ounce Cans Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies
Approximately 8 Cups Water or Broth
1 Sweet Pepper Chopped
1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil
2 Bay leaves
1 Teaspoon Chili Powder
3 Organic Sausage
1/2 Teaspoon Mrs. Dash Fiesta Lime
2 Teaspoon Celtic Sea or Himalayan Pink Salt
How To Pre Soak Beans
Next you have two choices. You can put them in a large pan and cover them with just over double the water as the amount of beans. Put a lid on them and set them aside on the back of the stove to sit for 8 hours to rehydrate them.
How To Quick Soak Beans:
If you don’t have this long put your pot on the stove and turn it on. Get it to the point of boiling and let it boil for a full two minutes. Turn off the eye of your stove and pull the beans to a cold one. Cover the pan and set your timer for one hour.
After Soaking Your Beans
In the AM (or after an hour) drain your beans and replace with fresh water. Use about 8 cups of broth. Chop up the onion and garlic and put them in with the beans with my bay leaves. Let this cook for an hour or so until the beans are done and tender.
Add Some Flavor
Then add the spices, the tomatoes and green chilies, peppers, and sausage and simmer so the seasonings can mingle.
This dish was amazingly good, It is spicy and wonderful. Can be served on a bed of rice but it does not need it.
How To Cook Beans
Ingredients
- 2 Pounds dry pinto beans Rinsed soaked and cooked.
- 2 Onions Chopped
- 4 Garlic Cloves Chopped
- 1 Teaspoon Onion Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon Mrs. Dash South West Chipolte
- 1/2 Teaspoon Celery Seed
- 2 10 Ounce Cans Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies
- Approximately 8 Cups Water or Broth
- 1 Sweet Pepper Chopped
- 1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil
- 2 Bay leaves
- 1 Teaspoon Chili Powder
- 3 Organic Sausage
- 1/2 Teaspoon Mrs. Dash Fiesta Lime
- 2 Teaspoon Celtic Sea or Himalayan Pink Salt
Instructions
- How To Pre Soak Beans
- Next you have two choices. You can put them in a large pan and cover them with just over double the water as the amount of beans. Put a lid on them and set them aside on the back of the stove to sit for 8 hours to rehydrate them.
- How To Quick Soak Beans:
- If you don't have this long put your pot on the stove and turn it on. Get it to the point of boiling and let it boil for a full two minutes. Turn off the eye of your stove and pull the beans to a cold one. Cover the pan and set your timer for one hour.
- In the AM (or after an houdrain your beans and replace with fresh water. I used about 8 cups of broth. I chopped up the onion and garlic and put them in with the beans with my bay leaves. I let this cook for an hour or so until the beans are done and tender.
- I then added my spices, the tomatoes and green chilies, peppers, and sausage and simmer so the seasonings can mingle.
- This dish was amazingly good, It is spicy and wonderful. Can be served on a bed of rice but it does not need it.
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