Slightly Wrinkly Simmered Black Beans

• 400 ml Kuro-mame (black soy beans)
• 250 grams Soft light brown sugar
• 50 ml Soy sauce

1. Rinse the black soy beans well, and soak in 3 times its volume of water overnight.
2. Start cooking the beans in the soaking water over medium heat.
3. When it comes to a boil, turn the heat down to low and simmer while skimming off the scum.
4. Cut out a piece of kitchen parchment paper to fit the pot, and cut a small circle in the middle.
5. Put this paper "lid" right on top of the pot contents as a drop lid (otoshibuta), and simmer over low heat for about 4 hours.
6. Add water several times as the beans cook, making sure they are always covered and not exposed to air.
7. Make sure the beans are cooked all the way through, then simmer for another hour, adding the sugar in 4 batches during that time.
8. When adding the 2nd batch of sugar, remove the paper lid and simmer the beans so that they peek out a little bit out of the water.
9. Add the soy sauce and finish simmering.
10. Taste and add salt if needed.

kuromame, light brown sugar, soy sauce

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/142762-slightly-wrinkly-simmered-black-beans (may not work)