Cooking tips
Cooking with dried beans
January 3, 2007
To prepare dried beans for cooking, soak them in water to soften them and also to reduce some of the gas that is released by the beans, and thus to make digestion easier. Changing the soaking water several times will help more in reducing the gas that is released by the beans.
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