Legumes: 7 infallible tricks so that they do not give us gases

Today in Paulina Cuisine we answer that question that we all ask ourselves but nobody is encouraged to answer: what to do so that legumes do not give us gases?

Legumes have a high nutritional content, they also help prevent or fight diseases, have fiber, protein, etc ... Peeero there is a problem: gases. It is not good to eat and then be a symphony with unmolted noise and smells.

Legumes without gases seemed to be a kind of mythological animal, something that only exists in our most utopian dreams. Years and years thinking that beans and gases were an inseparable combo, until I started an investigation that even the University of Massachusetts was encouraged to delve and Pum !! A new world opened.

I asked my Instagram followers to give me their secrets, tips and knowledge about the subject: how to cook the legumes and avoid the fatal odorous outcome . Ah, since I am telling you about this, I leave my account here so participate in the next great internet conventions that transform into these super scientific social and gastronomic studies. Well no, not all that, but I have a lot of exclusive content all the time, that sure.

Yes you can gentlemen! It was not just me who was doing everything to cook the beans and dodge the gases. It turns out that there was a whole community dedicated to the investigation of how to prepare legumes so that they do not fall badly, they were only working alone, so as not to have to say the word "fart" aloud. Someone had to raise the tone and shout at the four winds this millenary knowledge about gases that we have been developing as a society.

Then I leave the video where we made a compilation and put to the proof of all the tricks so that the beans do not give gases:

Without further ado we will uncover the pot (of beans). I hope you enjoy it and never have to choose between eating beans or keeping the belly without noise.

7 tricks that prevent legumes from gases

Truco #1: soak the beans for a long time

We usually leave the beans soak for 8 or 9 hours maximum. Investigating I found that you have to leave it around 24 or 25 hours because we digest it more easily. Obviously guys always in the refrigerator.

Trick #2: Add sodium bicarbonate

Most beans have complex oligosaccharides. What? What's that? Complex sugars that make digestion more difficult, said in Creole. The gases come by guilt friends and friends ... so we save our strength against the oligosaccharides!

While soaking the beans is the most efficient action to eliminate the excess of those sugars, putting a tablespoon of sodium bicarbonate when soaking helps.

Trick #3: Cook in Express pot

If to the 2 previous tricks we add cooking in Express pot, our legumes will be much easier to digest.
By clicking here they will find a recipe for beans with ground meat ideal for them to try these trucazos and then tell me how they went.

Trick #4: Spices that help

Putting the right spices to our dishes not only serves to give them a special flavor, but also help our intestine to minimize flatulence and improve digestion.

The laurel stimulates the digestive system and prevents stomach acidity. Other spices that serve are turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, smell nail and ginger.

Trick #5: Kombu algae

This tip told me many people, but many post huh! Just a little dagger in cooking water and holy remedy. They also say that an cabbage sheet works, but for that I do not put my hands in the fire because I did not try it and here I come with facts with OKK opinions? (I got an eye)

Trick #6: Cut the cooking

They say the masses that in the middle of the cooking you have to cut the boil. They say, this is done two or three times throughout cooking and works. No one knew how to give me the scientific foundation of this, so if you know it, please tell me.
To be sincere, I don't think this serves something. Makes the cooking later and mmmm I don't believe him. But, I tried it with all the tricks and the final result was positive, so I will continue making it clear that yes!

Trick #7: Do not use soaking water

This is essential. Never, ever, or joke. For the love of all Greek gods I ask them.

Most legumes are cooked from cold water, with the exception of chickpeas and some other anti system.

Here I leave a mealprep of chickpeas that breaks it. They use as an excuse to try these tips and voila, they have 5 meals of the solved week. A great goal!

In the end

These tricks serve to reduce gases, they are not magic either. Legumes are heavy and we learned to love them like that. There is a phrase from El Prince's book that says that to enjoy butterflies it is sometimes necessary to support a couple of caterpillars. Well, let's apply that metaphor to lentils and gases. Wonderful, don't you think?