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  • Lopoloma@lemmy.worldtoVegan Home Cooks@lemmy.worldAlways Be Soaking
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    11 months ago

    Avoid metal stuff while soaking and don’t add salt before they’re cooked.
    It can harden the hull.
    You may add some sodium bicarbonat to soften the hull but you need to experiment with the cooking time.
    A pressure cooker is nice but you either need to calculate in the time it needs till you can open the pot.
    Or you take the easy route and cook them till they’re done and you terminate the cooking process by cooling the pot in water.


  • Lopoloma@lemmy.worldtoVegan Home Cooks@lemmy.worldAlways Be Soaking
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    11 months ago

    I already soaked and cooked 1,8 kg.
    That’s twelfe more portions of black beans while I still got twelfe left in the freezer.

    Soaking 1,8 kg for 24h.
    Cooking in three batches in a pressure cooker.
    It takes 9 minutes till the pressure is up.
    15 minutes of simmering.
    Immediately cooling the pot with water to bring pressure down.
    Filling pot with cold water and stirring to cool down beans to terminate cooking and preparing for freezer.
    Portioning 150g - which now, after cooking the beans, weighs around 310-350g - into freezer bags, flattening them and flapping the excess part of the bag over.
    You want them as flat as possible so later on the frozen beans can easily be broken apart and prepared faster. Stacking the bags in the freezer.

    Now just put a portion of fast cooking grains or rice in the pot, add frozen beans and kale, enough water and cook them.
    Sieved tomatoes and herbs and spices can be added after cooking to cool the meal down a little so you can immediately start eating.

    Btw. I need to soak some beans.