How to cook red beans - quick and easy 🥗

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove, small pan, container for finished beans, a tablespoon, a glass.

Ingredients

Product	amount
beans	200 g
water	100 ml
salt	1 tsp
vegetable oil	2 tbsp. l

Step cooking

1. We place 200 grams of red beans in a small container, after removing excess components in the form of possible garbage. Rinse the product thoroughly under running cold water and place the beans in a small saucepan. Pour cold water in this ratio: if you took a glass of beans, then you need to add half a glass of water.
   
2. Turn on the fire and send the pan with red beans to the stove. We are waiting for it to boil.
   
3. When the water boils, we again pick up half a glass of cold water from the tap and add to the boiling beans. We are waiting for it to boil.
   
4. When the water begins to boil again, again add half a glass of cold water.
   
5. At this stage, add two tablespoons of vegetable oil to the pan: sunflower or olive, any vegetable oil. You do not need to salt the beans. This will be done at the end of cooking.
   
6. We cover the pot with beans with a lid, let it boil, reduce the heat, cook it for forty to forty-five minutes. At the end of cooking, salt the beans with one teaspoon of salt. Turn off the fire on the stove, decant the broth, get the finished beans. If you try to crush it with your fingers, we will see that it is soft, it is easily crushed even with light pressure.
   

Useful Tips

• Everyone knows that beans are a vegetable that boils for a very long time. But this method of cooking red beans does not require preliminary soaking and prolonged boiling, reducing this process by at least half.
• In cooking, boiled beans are used to prepare various salads, vegetable stews, snacks.
• Fresh beans are not consumed, it is boiled, canned, even dried.
• You can prepare mashed potatoes from boiled red beans as side dishes for meat dishes.
• Bean puree can also be used as a filling for pies.
• Red beans are very useful for the human body, in terms of protein content it is in no way inferior to such products as meat and fish. At the same time, the beneficial substances of beans are absorbed in the body by 75 percent. In addition, beans contain a substance such as argenin, which has an insulin-like content, which means that beans are useful for people with diabetes. Red beans are also useful in cases of heart rhythm disturbance, atherosclerosis.

Video recipe

From this video you will learn about the detailed preparation of boiled red beans, get visual information about the technology of fast cooking.