Easy Slow Cooker Beans how to cook dried beans in your slow cooker the best recipe.  Quick to prep and great taste and must try dry bean slow cooker recipe.  So my latest obsession in cooking has been beans.  I have been cooking dried beans and enjoying them all week aas sides, on salads or as a main course.  I cook them on Monday,  will I start soaking the night before.  They are super simple and very good for you.  Making them from scratch you avoid the sodium found in caned beans.

Easy Slow Cooker Beans

• 1 chopped onion 1 bay leaf
• 1 lb of dried beans
• 1 tbls of oil
• 1/4 teaspoon of cumin
• 1 tbls of salt, 1/4 of pepper
• 1 tbls of hot sauce
• 2 garlic cloves smashed
• 1 1/2 cups of vegetable stock,
• optional 3-4 slices of bacon chopped

1. The night before place beans in a large bowl pick out any bad beans , cover with water  an allow to sit over night
2. In the morning rinse beans with water and place in a cover pot on the stove, cover with clean water- bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes. drain and rinse with cool water.  This cooks off any bacteria or toxins
3. in a slow cooker place 1 chopped onion 1 bay leaf, beans, 1 tbls of oil, 1/4 teaspoon of cumin, 1 tbls of salt, 1/4 of pepper, 1 tbls of hot sauce, 2 garlic cloves smashed,  beans, 1 1/2 cups of vegetable stock, (optional 3-4 slices of bacon chopped)
4. Cooks for 8 hours on low

Here is a printable version of Easy Slow Cooker Beans

This weeks meal planning:

• Monday Ribs and potatoes
• Tuesday Chicken noodle soup (snow)
• Wednesday is ash Wednesday so homemade bread in a bag–  I make 9 loaves for church dinner and a pot my seafood chowder for the church super
• Thursday; Pork chops, and sour kraut
• Friday Dinner for 3 my daughter choice

Have a great week an have fun making beans

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