Should you drain the water when cooking beans?
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When cooking beans, you need to drain the water only once - after the first boil. We wash the beans with cold water and return to the stove. Cook until tender, adding water as it boils.
And in order for the bean dish to turn out delicious, you need to observe everything rules for cooking beans... First, rinse well with water - the most convenient way to do this is to use a colander. Then pour over boiling water and cool completely. A sign that everything is going well will be a shriveled skin.
Pour the cooled beans with cool boiled water so that it covers the grains by 2 - 3 cm. For the best soaking, you can add a little baking soda - for two cups of beans from a quarter to half a teaspoon, but no more.
It takes several hours to soak. Can be left overnight. After we rinse, we soak with a whole teaspoon of soda for 1 - 2 minutes and rinse again. Fill with cold water and set to cook.
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