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Here are some average cooking times For dried beans.  Use this information as a guideline and adjust for your preferred cooking temperature and your altitude.

Dry Bean Cooking Chart

Amount = 1 cup

Soaking
Time

Cooking
Time

Adzuki

none

45 to 50 min.

Anasazi, Appaloosa, Cranberry, Jacob's Cattle, Pinto

overnight

1-1/2 hr.

Black, Calypso, Marrow Fat, Soldier, Swedish Brown, Tongue of Fire, Yellow Eye

overnight

45 to 60 min.

Cow Peas (Southern Peas)

overnight

1 hr.

Chick-Pea, Garbanzos

overnight

1-1/2 to 2-1/2 hr.

Fava

overnight

45 to 60 min.

Kidney

overnight

1 to 1-1/2 hr.

Lima, Large

overnight

60 to 90 min.

Lima, Small

overnight

45 to 50 min.

Pea, Split

none

35 to 40 min.

Soybean

overnight

3 hr.


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