Can you roast soybeans directly in a popcorn popper or microwave?
Howdy, I just wanted to ask if it was possible to roast this type of soybean directly in a microwave popper contraption or a dedicated popcorn popper without any prior water work, just straight out of the box? And If they'd be edible if I did such a thing?
Edit: Honestly what confused me was this video, because the guy just threw them in the frying pan without any preparation or water usage and roasted them.
Best Answer
No, you can't cook dried beans just by roasting them. All this would do is it dry them out even more and that wouldn't make them more edible. Indeed, dried beans are used as baking beans to weigh down pastry during blind baking and they don't pop like popcorn.
All recipes for roasted soybeans require some combination of soaking and/or boiling before they can be roasted.
(Note we're not talking about fresh soybeans here, those are green and succulent.)
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How do you roast soybeans in the microwave?
Place the soaked soybeans on a large microwaveable dish and microwave on high during 10 to 15 minutes, until the soy beans are crispy and golden brown. The total time will depend on the moisture content of the soybeans and the wattage of the microwave.Can you cook raw soybeans?
Like any other dried beans, you can cook soybeans stovetop, in a pressure cooker or even in a slow cooker (crock pot). Soybeans take a very long time to cook, so you may prefer using a pressure cooker or slow cooker.Why do soybeans need to be roasted?
In principle, some heating of soybeans \u2013 either whole or defatted \u2013 is required to destroy protease inhibitors that reduce protein digestibility and other anti-nutritional factors. With a few notable exceptions, soybeans must be heat processed for all farm animal feeds.How do you cook dry soybeans?
Bring the soybeans to a boil, and then skim off the greyish foam that will rise to the surface of the water. Cook- ing time is about 5 to 6 hours. Top up with additional water from time to time, if it seems to be cooking off, and skim off any grey foam. A slow cooker will work too.Dry roasted SOYBEANS / Protein loaded
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Answer 2
You can roast them straight out of a bag - you don't have to soak them. I've had loads of them for years when I was a child in my native country (Romania). The same we do with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds - which people eat at football matches (at stadium). If you want to splash some water and a bit of salt on them, so be it, they're even tastier.
Answer 3
Are these dried soybeans? I had never considered it before your question, but it seems to me that if you had an air popcorn popper (like the famous Poppery II), you could probably roast dried soybeans effectively this way, because it's similar to roasting green coffee beans, and that's what I use to roast green coffee beans.
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