Soup beans?!
Soup beans?
I want to make soup beans and cornbread tomarrow, and I want to know is it ok to cook them all day on low heat. I have to work, so I'm thinking about turning them on before i leave so they will be cooked when I get home.
Additional Details4 weeks ago
They will be cooking in a crock pot/slow cooker if that helps
Answers:
4 weeks ago
They will be cooking in a crock pot/slow cooker if that helps
Here are a couple of ideas to make cooking easier.
Today, soak your dry beans in warm water to clean them and help them start to absorb some moisture. You may find small stones or little hard dirt clods in the beans - but this is normal and is why you clean them first. Soak your beans for a couple of hours up to overnight. Just be sure to rinse them well before putting them in the pot you will cook them in. Cover them with water about 2-3 inches above the beans.
Add the beans to your crock pot with a few other things for flavor. I like ham or ham hocks, sliced polish sausage, onion, celery, and carrot. I usually add garlic powder and pepper. If you like bacon, fry some up and put the drippings in with the beans. Keep the bacon to crumble up to put on top of your beans when you serve them.
Do not add salt to your beans during cooking - it will make them tough.
Cooking them on low all day will be fine. Just take the time to season them because if you don't - your beans will be sort of blah.
If you need beans in a hurry you can rinse your beans, put them in a pot on the stove and cover them with water. Turn the burner on high and boil them (again with all your seasonings) until the skins on just a few start to pop. This will vary by bean and by your altitude. Keep a watch on them and keep the water level high. Turn them down to simmer and cook them until they are soft. I can turn out a pan of soup beans this way in about 2 hours and they do taste like they cooked all day.
Cornbread - Jiffy mixes are awesome! That is usually what I use.
I soak the beans overnight and throw the water out, it removes the gases and they cook faster, cuts cooking time in half. Cooking them slowly all day will work fine either way...Enjoy
That is the way to go.I do it a lot.Make sure that you put some seasoning in the pot with them.If you are adding bacon or any other meat for flavor add it at the beginning also...
Ingredients
2 pounds of small Michigan navy beans
1-1/2 pounds of smoked ham hocks
1 onion
butter
Salt and pepper
Take two pounds of small Michigan navy beans, wash and run through hot water until beans are white again. Put on the fire with four quarts of hot water. Then add smoked ham hocks, boil slowly approximately 3 hours in covered pot. Braise one chopped onion in a little butter, and when light brown put in bean soup. Season with salt and pepper than serve. Do not add salt until ready to serve.
Yes you can leave soup all day in a crockpot, it comes out great. You will have to either use canned beans, or do the quick-soak method and cook them the day before. Fresh beans will have to be cooked separately before you use them in the soup, is what I mean.
yes as long as they are the fresh dry hard kind cook them all day to be soft but if they r the canned kind just heat them up quick thats all. good luck