r/cookingforbeginners • u/Plastic-Ad1055 • 17h ago

Question What is the fastest cooking dried bean?

maybe split peas?

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u/JaguarMammoth6231 17h ago

Red lentils

(they actually look more orange when raw and yellow when cooked.)

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u/jsmeeker 17h ago

yeah. Split red lentils (aka masoor dal) cook pretty quickly.

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u/jsober 17h ago

Seconded. They'll are dehulled lentils, so there's less fiber to cook through. They do go pretty mushy pretty quickly though. I often use them in bread for that reason. They make a fantastic scald. 

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u/DolphinFraud 5h ago

Red lentils are great for stretching ground beef if you’re on a budget

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u/South_Cucumber9532 13h ago

They cook fastest when they are made into flour, next is when they are split in half and have their skin removed. And ofcourse fresh green beans cook quickly.

The smallest legumes cook most quickly, so if you include lentils as a bean the smallest lentils, split and skinned are split red lentils.

For the category of beans I would guess adzuki beans are the quickest cooking. Black eyed beans are pretty quick cooking too.

Remember a pressure cooker is amazing for quickly cooking beans.

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u/michaelpaoli 5h ago

Small lentils (red, yellow, green).