Team Bettendorf in Missouri

Soaked beans

For those that wanted soaked beans.  I couldn't leave you hanging.

Make sure you have all of your ingredients.

2 cups black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans, black eyed peas or white beans.

warm filtered water

2 T whey

4 cloves garlic

sea salt and pepper

Measuring in the beans.  Remember we double the recipe and sometimes quadruple. :)  I like to have alot of beans on hand because they make an easy breakfast or lunch.  Which I will show you later on in Healthy Meal Thursdays.

Beans are really fun and they feel good on your hands.

Everyone enjoys beans.  Don't forget to wash your hands before cooking.

Beans are an easy, non-messy meal to cook with kids.

When the beans are measured out you need to rinse them.  Unless of course you like grit in your meals. :)  Pick out any funky beans.  I like to dig my hands deep in the beans and mix them over and over eachother.  Like I said, everyone enjoys playing in beans.  Older kids can quite easily handle this job as well.  Little kids tend to get rambunctious and dump the beans.

Then back in the bowl to add water and whey.

I somehow lost the picture of the whey being poured in.  Make sure you cover your beans with 2-3 inches of water.  The beans will expand and absorb the water.  The last thing you want is to find your beans sprouting and unusable.  Make sure they stay completely covered.

Then the beans soak 12-24 hours.  Once again I lost a picture of the beans after soaking.  There WILL be foamies on top.  Dump the beans in the colander and rinse again.

Place in crockpot or stock pot and cover with water.  I add salt here...I think I added 1T to my beans.  I also add green chilis and usually garlic as well.  You must add the salt before cooking or you will have mighty bland beans.

Cook for 4-8 hours.  I let mine cook for 4 hours on high and then my crock pot automatically turned to "warm".  They stayed warmed all night and we had them for breakfast the next morning.  I will share that on  Healthy Meal Thursday.

Beans

{ 05:16, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 } { Posted by Wawatoosie }

Katie, what does the whey do for the soaking process? Is it necessary or just better?

Hey

{ 09:37, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 } { Posted by Chas }

Hey are you going to share the code for the cook along on your hschool blog?
I thought I would add it to my two if you were!
Thanks!!!
Chas

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{ 09:32, Thursday, October 18, 2007 } { Posted by leemomofthree }

I've had my beans cooking in the crock pot since last night. We are excited to try them. We will be dining for lunch on beans and rice--Num. I'll get my pictures up tonight.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I'm loving it!
leemomofthree

Whey

{ 05:15, Friday, October 19, 2007 } { Posted by MommyMc }

My DS's are severely allergic to dairy, including whey. Is there anything else I can use, in place of the whey, for soaking?