Questions tagged [beans]
Questions about selecting, identifying, storing, preparing, replacing or cooking with beans as a main ingredient.
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Is it normal for dried fava beans to have an unpleasant sour smell/taste during/after cooking? If so, how can I mitigate it?
I used a pound of dried fava beans with the hull still on. The label on the bag said they were "medium" size. I soaked them for somewhere between 12 and 14 hours in 8 cups of water with 3 ...
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Pressure canner error message
My pressure canner gave me an error about a leak in the pressure while canning october beans. It took an hour for the pressure to release after I unplugged the canner. The beans look cooked and the ...
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How to freeze and thaw black eyed peas
I'm considering moving from canned black eyed peas to dry black eyed peas since they're cheaper. I'm thinking of batch boiling them and freezing them but I'm not sure if I could eat them straight ...
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I forgot to vent steam my canner for the 10 minutes while pressure canning my green beans [duplicate]
I worked up my green beans, cleaned them, and boiled them for about 15-20 minutes. Filled the jars(hot packed), added my clean boiling water, and then put in the pressure cooker. After a week, I ...
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Hard navy beans - will blending soften them?
ok i've soaked my rather old navy beans for around 10 hours, then cooked them on stove top without any salt or other things. Boiled and simmered for an hour or more, added a can of carrots, chopped ...
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Why do most (all?) recipes call for cooked rather than dry beans?
I'm thinking of recipes like chili, which have a "brothy" component to the finished recipe. One would hope that adding dry beans to an appropriate amount of liquid, loaded with aromatics and ...
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Does bean/pea milk made by just blending cooked beans/peas come out just as well as making it by blending soaked beans/peas and boiling them?
So I am vegan and make my own bean and pea milk using mostly Northern White beans and green split peas(finding the yellow ones is a bit hard). I have not made soymilk yet. Anyway, the way I make the ...
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Cooking beans safely - contradictory advice
I'd like to cook beans from dried, but I see a lot of contradictory safety advice about neutralising the toxins that occur in raw beans.
I've seen:
Rolling boil for 5 mins before simmering until ...
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Are these different ways to soften legumes chemically?
When I cook dried legumes (Like beans,chickpea, fava) and trying to soften them in a reasonable amount of time I think about three options, or mixing the three:
Soaking
Long time cooking or pressure ...
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Can you make red bean paste from bean flour?
I was having a conversation with someone about making a dessert from red bean paste and they mentioned the process being arduous because they had to cook the beans for two hours, and then mash them.
I ...
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What to do with a big bag of roasted fava beans [closed]
I wanted to get some healthy snacks for my family, so I bought a big bag of roasted fava beans (lightly salted + sunflower oil), but they turned out to be pretty unexceptional.
I wouldn't want them to ...
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Substituting black beans for ground beef in a meat pie
My wife has recently decided not to eat meat, so we have been substituting black beans for ground beef in some of our favorite dishes. This has worked fine so far, but I am not sure about making this ...
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Is quickly soaking beans or dhal etc. equivalent to an overnight soak?
If a recipe calls for beans etc. to be soaked overnight, it is seemingly possible to recreate this process quickly. One method advocated would be to rinse the beans, add to copious amounts of water ...
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This dal makhani recipe has two water discard steps. Any idea why?
I’m following the dal makhani recipe by Dishoom in London.
The recipe has two steps where the water the lentils are in is discarded and replaced with fresh water.
The first is the water the lentils ...
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Why are canned beans softer than the ones I soak myself?
I've been experimenting with making my own hummus from both canned and dried beans that I soak and cook myself, and the canned ones inevitably come out creamier and blend more smoothly. Does anyone ...
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Why are beans I soak myself always smaller than canned?
I've taken to buying bags of dried garbanzo beans instead of canned, however, no matter how long I soak them, they never expand to be as large as the canned, pre-cooked variety. This means when I try ...
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Modifying Pressure Cooker Timing for Beans
According to the Ninja Foodi FD402 pressure cooker guide, one can make 2 pounds of dry beans using the following instructions:
But, 2 pounds of beans is quite a lot. I am wondering, could I half or ...
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Why are soaked dried soy beans cooked before fermenting?
Is it necessary to cook soaked dried soy beans before fermenting them?
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Can beans be overcooked?
Can beans be overcooked? Coffee beans, for example, are incredibly roasted. Falafel is baked or fried garbanzo beans. Is it possible to overcook beans, or is this good for breaking down the sugars, ...
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Are red beans supposed to look pruney when soaking?
I'm a teen trying to cook for himself and I wanted to make some red beans and rice.
After I boiled the water, I started soaking the red beans and in just 5-8 minutes, the beans pruned up like your ...
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Can I use baking powder to soften dry beans or chickpeas? [duplicate]
Dry beans or chickpeas don't easily soften up after boiling.
Can I use baking powder (not baking soda) to soften dry beans or chickpeas?
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When soaking beans, should I throw away the floating ones?
Soaking beans before cooking is a widespread practice. Another widespread practice is, before cooking rice, to spread it on a flat surface and remove stones or rotting grains.
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what about peanuts that makes them more nut like than bean like?
As we all know, peanuts are actually legumes and not nuts. But they taste and function much more like nuts. They can be cooked quickly like nuts while beans take a long time to cook.
What about their ...
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After soaking beans for 4 hours shall I peel the separated peelings off or cook them along with the beans?
I soaked white beans for 4 hours, shall I pull the peelings off that are separating from the beans, or cook the peeling as well?
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Most energy-efficient way to cook beans
I am wanting to cook relatively small portions of dry beans but am not sure what kind of equipment to buy. My main concern is energy efficiency: I expect to cook a lot of individual portions over the ...
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Can I freeze soaked+boiled (but not fully cooked) kidney beans?
I soaked too many beans for my chilli, and couldn't fit them all in my slow cooker. The kidney beans were the last to go in due to their need for a hard boil, so they're what's left.
I won't have the ...
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Can fresh (frozen) beans be added directly to stew?
I am making a pressure cooker stew and have frozen butter beans that I would like to add. Since I generally use dried beans, my typical process would be to soak the beans overnight, cook them ...
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Do I need to soak fresh beans?
I have scarlet runner beans in my garden this year. I just picked my first batch of dry pods and shelled them. Most of the recipes I find online assume that you are buying or using dry beans and call ...
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How many grams is "1 can" of beans?
There is a recipe for bean burgers which I am trying to make.
The recipe calls for 1 can of beans.
First of all, bean cans are typically measured in milliliters.
Second of all, they come in various ...
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For what dishes I should wash starch off red lentils?
I usually wash grains and beans before using them. I wonder how/for what dishes I should wash red lentils?
When I washed them, the water looks "soapy" (lots of foam) until I change it cr. 8 ...
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Can I eat kidney bean leaves?
Are kidney bean leaves safe to eat? Are there limits as to what stage they become unsafe? Like, I can eat them young but not old? Can I eat them raw or must I cook them?
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Non-fat way of preventing legumes from frothing during canning
I have been adding fat to each jar of canned legumes to prevent frothing during processing (pressure canning). The fat looks unappetizing in the final product, especially if the beans are used cold ...
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Lentils and barley used together
In Polish Sausage Lentil soup, can I use some barley to replace some lentils - can I mix the two? Same question only opposite - in Turkey, Tomato, Barley soup, can I also use some lentils?
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Dried garbanzo beans not expanding when soaked
I recently tried soaking dried garbanzo beans for the first time. The 'quick soak' method which involved boiling them for 5 minutes and then letting them sit an hour didn't seen to change their ...
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Can I shorten bean soaking time if they'll be slow cooked?
I'm making something using butter beans (fasiola gigandes) which will be cooked for a long time (12+ hours) in a casserole dish with liquid covering them.
Normally I would soak the beans first for a ...
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How to safely refreeze cooked beans? [duplicate]
I have cooked a kilo of black eye beans and made a meal with half of them. I intend to freeze the rest (the other half) to make another meal next week and freeze them for later meals. This last step ...
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Grinding coffee beans in the Olde Time Nut Grinder, now sold by Hampton Farms?
Has anyone tried to grind coffee beans in the Hampton Farms peanut butter machine? It seems to me that it would work well. Thanks. Larry
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Adding citrus to stew while cooking or after
I am trying to reverse engineer a recipe for a fava bean stew from the list of ingredients on a ready-to-eat can. The can, as well as every other (middle eastern) instance of fava beans I've had, was ...
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Tenderizing fava bean skin without overcooking inside
For the umpteenth time I'm going to give fava beans a try, never having achieved satisfactory results thus far. I love them when someone else makes them, or even the canned ones ready to eat at my ...
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Are these Red Beans or Red Kidney beans?
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I would like to ask the community, if this the kidney beans are (which are good for rajma) or these are the red beans. The package says RED BEANS only..
Thank you
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What is the difference between kidney beans, navy beans, and black turtle beans?
I want to know the difference between what I think are similar bean types: kidney beans, navy beans, and black turtle beans. I know that these beans come from the same plant, are almost the same ...
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Shelf life and preservation of home soaked and drained black beans
I am looking to see if I can avoid store bought tin of black beans for our Mexican recipes, we typically decide suddenly to make a Mexican dish and usually dont have soaked beans handy.
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Dried beans, cooked in an acidic sauce, haven't softened enough - can I do anything now?
I know why my beans haven't softened - I was adapting a recipe (that calls for tinned beans) to use dried - and there's vinegar in the sauce. I soaked an assortment of beans from different packs ...
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Do pinto beans just ferment quickly? [duplicate]
I make bulk pinto beans as follows:
Soak beans overnight in salty water
Cook until tender, adding chopped onion and Serrano pepper
Drain completely, place onto baking sheet to cool (~100F, this takes ...
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Can I use unpasteurized store bought miso to make more miso?
I have some leftover chickpeas and red beans that I was thinking of making into a miso paste, but I don't have any koji and don't want to go searching multiple stores in the middle of a pandemic. Can ...
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Some beans are not cooked [duplicate]
I am cooking beans Vigna mungo , after soaking beans in water overnight.
I realized that when i cooked them in morning for 20 minutes in pressure cook, there are very few beans are still as hard as ...
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Tips and advice for cooking a bean recipe in the oven
The other week I tried cooking the braised carrots, date and chickpea recipe from Ottolenghi, published on the Guardian that I have put below.
It was delicious and super easy. As someone who doesn't ...
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Cook chickpeas directly in soup?
I just started cooking dried chickpeas in my pressure cooker. It made me wonder... I have some soup recipes that I make in my IP that call for canned chick peas. At first I was subbing in my cooked ...
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Soaked chickpeas overnight 12 hours not plump
The dried chickpeas had two methods for soaking. Boiling and soaking, about 2hrs, and soaking overnight.
I placed chickpeas in bowl of water overnight in fridge for about 12 hrs. They still seam "...
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Why do canned beans have less FODMAPs than dried beans?
Several sources have claimed that canned beans (after discarding the water in the can) are significantly lower in FODMAPs, particularly galacto-oligosaccharides, compared to cooked dried lentils. I'm ...
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