Plump and Shiny Kuromame Simmered Black Soy Beans - Kuromame

Method

• The night before: Rinse the beans and drain them in a sieve.
• Put 8 cups (1600 ml) of water and the sugar, soy sauce and salt in a pan and bring to a boil.
• Turn off the heat, add the beans, cover with a lid and leave overnight.
• The next day: Bring the pot back to a boil, and skim off the scum carefully.
• Shift the lid so that there's a small gap, and simmer for 4 hours over low heat.
• When the liquid in the pan runs low, keep adding boiling water (not cold water), so that the beans are always immersed in the liquid!
• When the beans are soft, let cool with the lid on.