Use Your Bean

By Katie Barreira

Cooking with dried beans requires minimal effort and begets peak results. Why haven’t I been using them all along?

Canned beans tend to be overly soft and bland, when compared to their recently re-hydrated counterparts. I’ve taken to incorporating canned beans into a dish only during the last few minutes of cooking, to maintain their texture. While it’s unlikely that I’ll ever banish the canned variety from my pantry, a dried bean is a terrible thing to ignore.

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