SWEET SIMPLE BEANS RECIPE- The Best Beans Ever w/ Sweet Simple Mom

Hi guys! Today I'm here with Sweet Simple Mom and we are going to make Sweet Simple Beans for you guys. This is a highly requested recipe of yours and it is very easy and yeah so let's get started. You guys are going to be so surprised how easy it is. Jasmine keeps saying everybody wants to know my bean recipe and it's just easy easy easy. So first thing is you need some dried beans and actually we're making beans for Amanda. She placed an order for my mom to make her beans so this is just black beans like one bag of black beans. One bag of black beans. So like a pound of black beans and um so what's the first step? Basically you just you wash the beans a little bit first because sometimes you can actually find some rocks in some of the beans. Yeah so pick out pick through the beans pick out the bad beans. Yep and then just rinse it and soak it overnight. This one's been soaked overnight as you can see yeah and it will expand so Jasmine always reminds me because sometimes you know. I come home and it's like overflowing out of the bowl. So I put it in a bowl that's too small and I put like a couple of bags because we'll usually make you know a big pot of beans for the week. So always make sure you put it in a big bowl. You can also change the water in between if you want but you don't have to. I usually just rinse it and then soak it. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take some of this water out and then we'll show you guys how to put it in. So she'll soak it for just like a whole day. She'll set it before she goes to work and then um when she gets home that's when we'll stick it in a pressure cooker. Um and so as for water I would recommend like three times the amount water than beans. Maybe two to three times. It just depends on how much the bean is going to absorb the size of the beans and whatnot. So she just drained it. I just drained it and try to keep it in the refrigerator when you're soaking it too. Especially if it's warm. So like this last couple of days it's been warm so I've been keeping it in the refrigerator. So so I usually use a pressure cooker. Yeah this is the key to Sweet Simple Beans. It's a pressure cooker. Any brand will work. We have this one right here. I'll link it down below if you guys are interested in getting a new pressure cooker. This one works really well. We use it all the time pretty much every day. It's actually my sister's. I gave it to her for Christmas. We left it here and I said you know what I'm going to try to use it for beans. Yeah. And it's never left so I'm going to keep it as long as she'll let me. So anyway this is the the pressure cooker container. You go ahead and just pour the beans in here. All right. And then as Jazzy mentioned the water content um you'll actually laugh at how I measure the water that I put in into the beans. So this is how my mom, this is how you make rice too? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's a Filipino thing or did mama just teach it to you? Uh my mom was the one that taught it to me. So when I um measure the the water that I put on the beans I usually put my finger in the middle and then so the tip of my finger is the line is touching the beans. Yeah. And then the water usually I'll have it just a little bit above the line of my finger. So Jasmine usually. Old school way guys. But it works. Jasmine usually likes the beans a little. And rice. Thicker and the rice. So you know if you don't want it too watery you can just keep it right above the the line of your your middle finger but if you want a little bit more water just add a little bit more water. Yeah and another thing is after you cook it like once you first take it out it'll be kind of watery but then if you like cool it down set it in the fridge it'll actually become thicker then once you warm it up it'll become thicker again and again. So I love like the last of the beans at the end of the pot because that's always at the consistency that's the best. Yeah it'll thicken as as you put it in the refrigerator and as you're re-warming it. So the water's in here again just you know above the the line of my finger here so the water that I put and then I put a teaspoon of vegetable broth. So this is vegetable bouillon but you could also do vegetable broth instead of water and this paste it works the same way. My mom will just mix that in and we usually have this in the fridge it lasts a really long time. You just mix it with water and you don't even have to put salt so that's why I like this. Yeah this has salt in it already. It already has a little bit of salt and then kind of just mix it up because usually the the vegetable broth will get stuck but it's calling me call her back. Okay and then here's the one that is just the easiest thing. I used to chop these onions and dice it and of course you know crying my eyes out and there was one time one of my well my my niece's boyfriend's mom actually made beans and I noticed that she had put a whole onion in it but the the beans that she had cooked I think she just cooked into the stovetop so the onion was still kind of whole but I so I took that trick and I just put a whole onion in here just stick it on all the way in the bottom in the middle because of the pressure cooker it'll disseminate and then once the beans are cooked if you don't like you know the the crunch or it's not actually crunch if you don't like the flavor of too much onion you can take it out but what we do is we actually mix it up because it gets really mushy and then it just tastes delicious so that's it water the the vegetable broth one whole onion you stick it in this and then you put it in the pressure cooker make sure the thing that is closed and here's a trick I tried different settings I tried half an hour and I've tried you know 40 minutes 45 minutes for whatever reason 55 minutes is the key to my beans so no more no less but so just put it for 55 minutes and then there you go all right and then it'll just cook yeah grab yourself a glass of wine here's my wine wait around for it go and run some errands and then it'll shut off when it's done right it'll shut off when it's done I'll show you I think it'll keep it on warm I don't know we actually already made a pot so these ones are what kind of beans is this red this is also black beans okay because I had soaked two bowls so I'll bring it over if you can see I'll show them the so you'll see the I don't know if you can see the onions so here's the onions see how it kind of just it's still not little tiny pieces but it's not huge so the flavor is all soaked in it's really thick right now as you can see and it'll get even thicker yep yeah so you just keep the pot in the refrigerator and you warm what you need we usually keep you know one one pot a week so I'll alternate black beans pinto beans red beans yeah I actually have red beans soaking for Amanda she had wanted black beans and red beans so that's in the fridge once this is done we'll do the red beans yeah and then your beans will be ready Amanda see how easy it is so easy and if you guys don't have a pressure cooker like she was saying she learned the onion method from someone who's making it in a pot that will take probably all day to cook in the pot but you could do a pot if you don't want to get a pressure cooker if you don't have a pressure cooker yeah usually I mean that's how I used to cook my beans it's in the pot it'll just sit all day like you would bring it to a boil then set it on low it's really low but the trick is you also have to add a little bit more water so if you're gonna do it on the stovetop I would probably say you would put the water second line closer to the second line not all the way because and then you can tell too if the water is kind of you know evaporating you can add a little bit more water to the pot but it'll take about three and a half hours to cook in the stovetop because you know the beans you know it takes a while to cook but it works the same way like jasmine that's how I used to cook our beans yeah so I hope you guys enjoyed this video I hope you guys make this recipe if you do please hashtag sweet simple beans and we will check it out and I'll show my mom she'll probably love it enjoy and we will see you in the next video bye cheers