The Healthiest Way of Cooking Lima Beans. To cook lima beans, place them in a pot and add three cups of fresh water or broth for each cup of dried beans. The liquid should be about one to two inches above the top of the beans. Bring the beans to a boil and then reduce to a simmer, partially covering the pot. Lima beans generally take about 45 minutes to become tender when cooking this way. Lima beans may produce a lot of foam during cooking.
The Picture Pantry/Lisovskaya Natalia/Getty Images. The proper temperature to cook a medium-rare steak is 130 F - 135 F. However, according to foodsafety.gov, beef, lamb, and pork should be cooked to at least 145Â° (or above, if desired). Ground meat must be cooked to at least 160 F. Ground poultry must be cooked to at least 165 F. Fully cooked hams should be heated to at least 140 F.
Also see: Grilling Steaks. The interior of a medium-rare steak will be mostly pink with just a tiny bit of red in the center, and the interior temperature is between 130F and 140F. We'll talk about how to know when a steak is perfectly medium-rare a bit further on in this article.