Bean RecipesBean recipes are wonderful. They give you protein, lower cholesterol, and stabilize blood sugar. Beans fill you up! You can find beans in bulk section of health food grocery stores and some conventional grocery stores. Or you can buy them canned. I recommend Eden foods brand for canned beans. They cook beans with Kombu and don't oversalt them, and their cans don't contain Bhp, a dangerous chemical in almost all cans. But Eden Foods beans are more expensive. So If you buy a salty brand, just rinse the beans in a colander. Here are some bean recipes. Spinach salad with avocado and garbanzos HOW TO COOK BEANS Beans are definitely "slow food". You need to soak them 8 to 12 hours or overnight, and then cook them an hour or longer. I like to cook up a batch on the weekend. If you find beans hard to digest, start with the smaller beans: aduki, mung, lentils and peas. Here are the steps to cooking beans: 1. Pick through the beans and remove any dirt, stones or shriveled beans. 2. Soak beans 8-12 hours or overnight 3. Drain water. Add fresh water to cover 2 inches 4. Add in kombu sea vegetable and herbs of your choice: bay, cumin, peppers,fennel, sage, ginger, dill, oregano. These herbs help digestion. Do not add salt yet! 5. Bring to a boil, skim off any foam that forms. 6. Lower to simmer, add lid and a flame tamer (a flame tamer is a useful tool that goes under to pot and spreads out the flame. It's not absolutely necessary) 7. Let cook for 1 hour or more. Bigger beans take 2-3 hours, smaller beans 1 hour or more. Check the water level every 40 minutes to see if you need more water. 8. Add salt when almost done 9. Chew well! You can cook beans in a crock pot all day, after you soak them. Or you can soak them and then pressure cook them. If you have old beans that seem to never soften up on the stovetop, use a pressure cooker. Pressure cookers will soften any bean! I recommend a Kuhn Rikkon pressure cooker. Bean recipes ideas Now that you have a pot of beans, What will you do with them?
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