Description
An authentic recipe for Mexican-style beans. Serve moist and hot with your meal, cover with grated Mexican cheese and accompanied by pickled jalapeno peppers.
Ingredients
- 5 quarts water, or as needed
- 1 pound pinto beans, washed
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- canola oil
Instructions
- Combine water
- pinto beans
- and garlic into a large pot and cover; Cook over low heat for 5 1/2 hours; stir salt into beans and continue cooking until beans are very soft
- about 30 minutes more.
- Heat canola oil in a skillet over high heat. Spoon the beans into the skillet without draining excess water; mash beans using a potato masher until they begin to lose their shape
- about 3 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 6 hrs 3 mins
Total Time: 6 hrs 18 mins
Servings: 12