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Beans and other legumes: Cooking tips
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Types of legumes
Preparing legumes
Cooking tips
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Adding more legumes to your diet
Reducing the gas factor
No time to spare?
Lentils, split peas and black-eyed peas don't need to be soaked. In addition, some legumes are "quick cooking" — meaning they have already been pre-soaked and redried and don't need extra soaking. Finally, canned legumes make quick additions to dishes that don't require long simmering. Just be sure to rinse prepared and canned legumes to remove some of the sodium added during processing.