Our Very Favorite Refried Beans
4 - 5 cups pinto beans (depending on how big your crock pot is)
3 teaspoons Sea Salt
3 Tablespoon minced onion
2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 Tablespoon oregano
(Any herbs and spices you like, I use basil sometimes too)
Place beans in crock pot to soak overnight. Cover with water 1 - 2 inches over beans, soak all night. In the morning drain and rinse beans and cover again with about 6 cups water. Turn on your crock pot and cook until dinner time. Check during the day to see if the beans on top are dry and need a little more water. Be sure not to use to much water. Before dinner time mash the beans with a potato masher some whole beans left in it is good, they will seem runny but they thicken a lot as they cool. Add your spices and enjoy with chips and salsa, in a taco salad or burrito or any way you want. Left overs freeze well or will keep in the fridge for about a week.
Also goes great with this Spanish Rice recipe!
Also goes great with this Spanish Rice recipe!
5 comments:
Should the crock pot be on high or low heat?
FeistyGirl: It just depends on how long you they are going to be cooking and how hot the crock pot you have cooks (they are all a little different). If they are going to be cooking for at least 8 hours or more I would just put it on low. If It's going to be 6 hours or less I would put it on high and see how they are doing after 4 hours if they need more water, how done they are or if they are cooking to fast etc.
They turned out perfectly on hight heat! Super yummy!! I did 1/2 pinto & 1/2 mayocoba (my brother said he prefers these for refried beans). Oh, & I accidentally added all the spices prior to cooking because somehow I missed where you said to add them after cooking. However, it didn't affect the outcome at all. Delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Could these be canned?
Anonymous: I have just been thinking lately about canning this recipe. I know putting it in bags or bottles in the freezer works great. But for longer term storage canning them would be the way to go. Using a pressure cooker would be the best way. Let me know if you try it and if I beat you to it I will post about it.
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