Beans are an incredibly healthy and nutritious product. Its calorie content is equal to the energy value of meat. However, beans have a significant drawback: they cook for a long time. To prepare a meal from this product, you need to spend several hours. The article talks about recipes with red beans in a slow cooker. Thanks to this device, you can cook delicious dishes much faster than in the usual way.
Simple cooking option
Of course, modern kitchen appliances greatly facilitate the life of cooks. With the help of various devices you can make dishes from any components: meat, poultry, vegetables. How to cook beans in a slow cooker? According to the reviews of the hostesses, this product goes well with garlic, onions, herbs, spices, sour cream, walnut kernels, tomato sauce.
It is also made with beef and chicken flesh. This chapter provides a simple and fairly quick recipe for food.
For its preparation, the following components are required:
- Four glasses of water.
- Carrot is one root crop.
- Onion head.
- Two cloves of garlic.
- Two glasses of red beans.
- Spice.
- Salt.
- Sunflower oil.
A simple recipe for red beans in a slow cooker looks like this:
- Beans should be rinsed. Place in a bowl of cold water for about four hours. Beans should increase in volume.
- The onion head is cleaned and chopped with a knife.
- Grate the carrots. Chop the garlic.
- Sunflower oil is poured into the bowl of the device.
- Put the garlic in there. Fry it in the "Frying" program for several minutes.
- Add onions and carrots. Leave to fry until golden brown.
- Liquid is poured from a bowl of beans.
- Beans are sprinkled with vegetables.
- The dish should be salted, add a little water to it.
- The meal is cooked in the “Croup” mode for about 60 minutes.
Recipe with herbs and tomato sauce
The composition of the dish includes:
- Red beans (two glasses).
- Large onion head.
- Carrot.
- Sunflower oil (tablespoon).
- A bunch of parsley greens.
- Garlic - two wedges.
- Tomato sauce (two tablespoons).
- Salt.
- Seasonings.
How to make red beans in a slow cooker?
A step-by-step recipe for herbs with tomato sauce is presented in the next chapter.
Cooking
Beans are placed in a bowl of cold water overnight. The next day, liquid is poured from the container. Beans must be rinsed under running water. Place in the appliance bowl. Pour cold water so that the liquid covers the beans on three fingers, and cook in the “Stew” program for about two hours.
The onion head should be diced. Carrots are crushed using a grater. Vegetables are fried in a pan with sunflower oil. Combine with beans.
In the dish put tomato sauce, pepper, salt, spices. Sprinkle the dish with chopped garlic. All components are mixed.
Cook in the program "Frying" for about seven minutes. Then transfer the device to the "Extinguishing" mode for a quarter of an hour. After cooking in a slow cooker red beans according to the recipe with tomato sauce, the dish is sprinkled with chopped parsley.
Meat dish
For it you will need the following components:
- Two glasses of beans.
- 400 g of beef or pork pulp.
- Three onion heads.
- Carrots - two root crops.
- Tomato sauce (three tablespoons).
- Sour cream (as much).
- Salt.
- Spices.
- Two cloves of garlic.
How to make bean stew in a slow cooker with meat?
The recipe is presented in the next chapter.
Cooking process
Beans are placed in a bowl of warm water. Leave the product for four hours. When the beans increase in volume, it must be rinsed under running water. Place in the appliance bowl. Combine with a small amount of salt and cook in the “Stew” program for an hour and a half under a closed lid. When the beans become soft, they must be transferred to a plate.
Meat, onions and carrots are diced using a knife. The meat is laid. Put the rest of the food in the appliance bowl. Sunflower oil is added to the vegetables and cooked in the Frying program for half an hour. Add the sauce. After a few minutes, the components must be combined with pieces of meat and chopped garlic. Add sour cream. The food should be covered with a lid. Cook another 30 minutes in the Frying program.
Then the beans are put in the bowl. The components must be mixed well. Pour a little water. The dish is cooked under the lid in a frying program for 30 minutes.
Beans with spices and walnuts
For this dish you will need:
- 400 grams of red beans.
- Litere of water.
- Onion head.
- Garlic (two cloves).
- A quarter of a pod of hot red pepper.
- 50 g of walnut kernels.
- A bunch of parsley greens.
- Fresh cilantro (as much).
- Spices (uzo-suneli, coriander).
- Lemon juice.
- Celery greens, savory to taste.
- Salt.
How to make red beans in a multicooker pressure cooker according to this recipe?
Beans are soaked in a bowl with cold water. Leave for the night, but not more than 10 hours. The next day, the liquid is removed. Beans are placed in the appliance bowl. Pour a small amount of water. Cook in the Bean mode for two hours.
At this time, spices must be crushed in a mortar. Slices of garlic, salt and kernel kernels need to grind in the same way in another container. The onion head and herbs should be cut. Put these components in separate plates. When time runs out, open the appliance bowl. Place onion slices in it, half the greens. The products continue to cook in the “Baking” mode for another 10 minutes, stirring from time to time.
After boiling, put part of the garlic-nut mass, seasonings, a little salt in the dish. The dish is cooked in the program "Frying" for another six minutes. Next leaves the beans in the "Preheat" mode. Half a serving of beans is placed in a deep bowl and knead with a pusher. Return back to the bowl. Add the rest of the greens, the mass of garlic and nuts. Sprinkle the dish with lemon juice. Leave the dish for another 30 minutes.
Mushroom Beans
For this dish you will need:
- Carrot.
- Garlic (three cloves).
- Onion head.
- 400 g of fresh champignons.
- Packing canned beans.
- 100 milliliters of water.
- A small spoonful of mushroom broth powder.
- Salt, spices, pepper.
- Olive oil.
- Two sprigs of green dill (parsley).
How to make red beans in a slow cooker? A recipe for mushrooms is described in this chapter.
Mushrooms should be chopped. Place in the appliance bowl. Add olive oil. The product must be prepared in the Baking program for 20 minutes. Move to another container after a lapse of time.
The onion head is cut into small cubes. Carrots are crushed on a grater. Fry vegetables in the Baking program for a quarter of an hour. Ten minutes later, beans are placed in the appliance bowl. Chop the garlic. Add to other products.
Before the end of the regimen, a little warm water is poured into the food. Add previously cooked mushrooms, sprinkled with salt, pepper and other spices. The components are mixed. Put a slow cooker on the program "Baking". Prepare the dish for another 20 minutes.
The dish should be sprinkled with chopped herbs.
Chicken Recipe
To prepare the dish you will need:
- A pound of boiled red beans.
- Chicken flesh (same amount).
- Onion head.
- Carrot.
- Salt.
- Pepper.
- A small spoonful of a mixture of Italian herbs.
Recipes for cooking beans in a slow cooker often include additional components. It can be not only vegetables, but also the flesh of beef, pork or poultry. How to make a chicken dish? This is described in this chapter.
Pieces of pulp should be placed in a multicooker bowl. The onion head must be cleaned. Dice. Combine with chicken. Rinse the carrots and peel. Grind with a grater. Put in the bowl of the device. The dish is sprinkled with salt, pepper and a mixture of Italian herbs. Add boiled beans to it. Pour the components with water, mix thoroughly. Prepare a meal in the program "Cooking" 25 minutes.
Reviews
Mistresses note that there are some nuances of cooking beans, which you need to know:
- Beans of any kind must be soaked. If this is not done, then the product will not be prepared.
- Soak the beans for no more than 10 hours, otherwise the beans begin to ferment. If you can’t cook it, then you need to change the water and put the container in the refrigerator.
- It turns out very tasty beans in tomato with vegetables and rice.
- To make the beans not look like porridge, it must first be boiled.
- Herbs and garlic add a special flavor.
Many say that they tried to cook beans in a slow cooker for the sake of interest, and now such a dish has become one of the favorite in the family.
Bon Appetit!