Red beans: how to cook and what to cook?
Red beans, of course, harbors great benefits. This product can easily replace the meat itself.With the help of beans you can cook a lot of delicious dishes. The main thing is to know all the secrets of cooking and proven recipes. Today in our material you will find a lot of interesting information about red beans.
Benefit and harm
Among the diversity of legumes red beans is a leader. Unlike other varieties, its chemical composition is much richer. So, its regular use will bring more benefits to the body. Such a product may well replace meat, for which vegetarians love it. In addition, red beans can saturate the body with various vitamins, in particular, group B vitamins and fiber.
In order to meet the body's need for trace elements, it is enough to eat a hundred grams of this product daily. It is worth mentioning that even after a long heat treatment, the beans retain more than eighty percent of their nutrients.
These beans have a positive effect on the work of the heart and blood vessels, normalize hemoglobin levels, improve blood quality and digestive processes. Red beans normalize blood sugar levels, so people suffering from diabetes, may well include the product in your diet.
Beans relieve the body of toxins, have a positive effect on the work of the nervous system, strengthen the immune system and have a positive effect on the work of the intestines, and also help fight puffiness. Due to its high calcium content, the product has a positive effect on the health of teeth, hair and nails. In addition, it helps to normalize the work of the kidneys, removing stones, and has a positive effect on the work of the gallbladder.
If we talk about the contraindications of this product, it is worth mentioning that the beans are extremely harmful with a strong gas formation in the stomach. Excessive consumption can also lead to flatulence. Beans should not be used for colitis, gastritis, ulcers and other serious diseases of the intestines and stomach. It is also not recommended to eat legumes for gout. Children under three years should not give this product. It can not be used in the case of individual intolerance.
How to dunk?
Since red beans are cooked for a long time, it is recommended to pre-soak them. In addition, if you soak it before cooking, then all the beneficial properties contained in the beans will be better absorbed by the body. Without soaking the product may cause flatulence. In addition, it allows you to cook it so that after cooking it is soft and tasty.
Before soaking dry beans, you need to sort out, getting rid of debris. Then rinse thoroughly with warm water. Be sure to take a large container, as the beans increase in volume. By the time it takes to soak six to seven hours. Remember that thirty minutes after soaking the water is better to change. Soak the beans should be only cold water.
In addition, it is important to remember that in summer, soaked beans cannot be left at room temperature. Since there is a high probability that the fermentation process will begin. Therefore, it is best to put the container in the refrigerator. After soaking the swollen beans, be sure to rinse and then start cooking.
Fill dry beans with exceptionally clean water, without adding salt or soda, which is often put in order for the legumes to swell faster. Soaking with the use of baking soda leads to the fact that the beans lose many of their useful qualities even before cooking. On one part of the beans should take two parts of water.
Ways
In order to cook red beans quickly and tasty, you need to know how to do it right. It can be cooked in a conventional saucepan or a slow cooker can be used. Beans can be quite quickly cooked in a conventional microwave oven. Each method has its own small secrets and nuances, which we now tell.
In the microwave
Prepared beans should be folded in a special bowl, which is designed for cooking in a microwave. Beans need to fill with water so that it is half a centimeter to cover the beans. To get started exactly ten minutes should include the most powerful mode. After that, the beans must be mixed, add more water and cook on medium power for twenty minutes. Then pour water, add salt, spices and cook in the same mode for another fifteen minutes. After this time, the beans will be ready, and the beans will remain whole.
In the pan
Pre-prepared beans should be put in a pan and pour clean water. Water needs so much that it covers the top beans two centimeters. If necessary, in the process of cooking you can add more water. Fresh beans, as a rule, cooked much faster than the old, stale. Cooking beans should be on low heat, do not allow the water to boil strongly, otherwise the beans will boil over.
Also do not close the lid tightly. If you add salt at the very beginning of cooking, the beans will remain whole and not burst. If salt is added after the beans are almost ready, they can burst and boil heavily.
In the slow cooker
In order to boil the beans in a slow cooker, the beans will also have to be pre-soaked. In the bowl you need to pour so much pure water to cover it with a three centimeter beans. In the cooking process, you can still add water if necessary. In the event that you need ready-made and whole beans, then cook them on the "Cooking" mode. And if you need more boiled beans, then the program “Quenching” will help.
How to determine readiness?
It is impossible to say exactly how long the beans should be cooked. Some define readiness by how it is boiled soft. But in fact, it all depends on what exactly you want to cook from it. If you plan to prepare a warm salad with beans, one and a half hours will be enough. Willingness to determine quite easily, each bean should be intact, but easy to get through and be soft inside.
If you are planning to cook cream soup or use beans for pate, then you should cook it longer. As soon as the beans burst and boil soft, it will be possible to remove from the fire. It will take about two hours. Then the beans will easily beat up, leaving no lumps in the finished dish.
Cooking specialists recommend that you try three beans at once for readiness. In that case, if all are soft, then you can remove from heat. If at least one is undercooked, more solid, then you should cook another ten minutes.
Recipes
Boiled beans - this is in itself a tasty dish. But in order to pleasantly surprise your loved ones, we recommend making an original side dish from it. For this you will need:
- three hundred grams of boiled beans;
- tablespoon butter;
- two tablespoons of homemade tomato paste;
- three tablespoons of sour cream and spices.
If desired, onions and Bulgarian pepper can be used one by one. Finished beans should be stewed a little with butter in a frying pan, literally five to six minutes. After add the tomato paste and spices. Then pour the chopped vegetables here, mix everything thoroughly and simmer for about ten minutes. Once the vegetables are ready, add sour cream, stir and remove from heat. If desired, you can decorate with fresh herbs. Beans prepared in this way will become not only a side dish, but also a tasty independent dish.
In addition, you can cook a delicious and hearty salad. We take two hundred grams of boiled beans, boiled meat (you can use lean beef or chicken) and pickled cucumbers. Meat cut into small cubes. Cucumbers, too, cubes, but smaller. All the ingredients are mixed in a bowl, add spices to taste and season with sour cream or mayonnaise.
About how much to cook red beans, see the following video.
