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Cooking Dried Beans

Cooking dried beans is a simple and cost-effective way to incorporate nutritious legumes into your diet. Here’s a ...
Packed with vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, they are also quite low in fat. They are known as “nutrient dense” foods, meaning they provide a lot of nutrition per calorie.
Beans are delicious and healthy, but cooking them can be a headache! If you’ve ever tried to cook beans, you know how frustrating it is to wait forever for them to soften. You soak them, boil them, ...
Soaking dried beans isn’t always necessary, since it saves little cooking time and can even diminish flavor in some varieties like black beans. Instead of soaking, a quick five- to 10-minute boil ...