Is it good to parboil beans before cooking?
One mistake I see people make with beans is PAR BOIL straight from raw.
Beans is one of the heavily sprayed legumes for pest control, par boiling in hot water will melt everything and they will penetrate further into the beans while you’re parboiling it.
You want to SOAK first, let whatever on the surface leach into the water you soaked it in.
Allow the beans to EXPAND in water so it can release all the anti Nutrients that have been concentrated on the surface during drying and processing then storage.
Compare the physical look on your beans before and after soaking and see what im saying.
It looks plumpier and cleaner on the surface.
You can soak overnight for even better result…
Soak your beans for couple of hours before cooking to take the toxins out.. drain that caramel water out..
Then rinse couple of times more to remove any residual irritants before you cook.
Also beans contain over 5 complex sugars which is why people always suffer indigestion with beans…
Soaking will soften the complex sugars and make digestion easier….
Also soften the skin which is where the insoluble fiber is .
So again, SOAKING BEFORE COOKING not PARBOILING First!!
Please DONT ADD SUGAR TO your beans, there are Complex Sugars in beans already.
Rodhiyah Oriyomi Abdulkabir
Your Nourish Chemist
