How to Strain Black Beans

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name Sheryl McGlochlin with expertvillage.com. Today we are making a really delicious black bean salsa. Now I talked about in the last segment about using our slow cooker. We have just put the soaked beans and water in and actually you can leave this depending if you have it on a low setting or a high it might take between 4-6- or 8 hours. The best way to see if it is done is just to go ahead and taste one of these beans and it would just be nice and squishy. It would just be really really nice and soft. If it is not there yet just let it soak. The slow cookers are so great though you don't ever have to baby sit them. You can leave home and you can leave it one low or leave it on high and just forget about it for about 6-8 hours and it is really really great. So now they have been cooked and you are going to take a strainer like we have here. I have pinto beans in here right now. But we are going to strain the juice out of the black beans. But don't throw away your juice because the juice is going to be a important part of our black bean salsa also. So we are just going to go ahead and strain that black bean right into this strainer. Keep the cooked black beans and save the juice."