Unique Bean Dish: Transform Your Cooking with This Easy Recipe

Beans, believe it or not.

Here’s how I make them.

I take about a pound of pinto or black beans, clean them, and then put them in water and let them soak overnight.

Next morning, I toss them into a crockpot and add vegetable or beef broth. I plug it in and let it cook on high most of the day.

I try not to add anything to it until almost an hour before eating them. I saw this approach on Eva Longoria visiting Spain. It allows the beans to make their own gravy and to keep the flavor.

But the ingredients are 100% grandpa who put anything and everything into his beans. And without using a pressure cooker, I’m in no danger of blowing up the kitchen.

Add the following ingredients:

• One pound 90% lean hamburger – Fry it and keep the grease
• I can RoTel tomatoes with chili
• A couple of stalks of celery – chopped
• One medium onion – chopped
• 1 red bell pepper – chopped
• 1 yellow bell pepper – chopped.
• Salt – to taste
• Pepper – to taste
• Red Chili powder or Diced Green Chili or diced jalapenos. If your tongue and stomach are made of asbestos, the latter is good choice.
• Garlic powder – to taste
• Onion Powder – to taste
• Cumin
• About a half cup of flour

Add the tomatoes into the beans.

In a frying pan, fry up the hamburger, celery, onion, and bell peppers. Season with salt, pepper , cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, and Onion powder. Add flour in towards the end of the cooking process so it coats and browns with the meat.

When finished, add the hamburger mixture into the beans.

Stir it in and allow to cook for an hour. Real cooks of this type of beans will caution you to use a wooden spoon.

Eat with cornbread, tortillas, or biscuits.

Making beans is a little like making stew. You can add almost anything to them, and it will be a good call.

BONUS RECIPE

This has recently become one of my favorite salads:

Take on large cucumber and peel off the skin. Chop it up into about 1 inch chunks.

Take a red or yellow bell pepper and remove the seeds, Cut that up into 1 inch square chunks.

Place in a bowl, and then add one can of DRAINED whole kernel corn.

Season with salt, pepper, a dash of Garlic Salt, and stir in a small amount of olive oil.

Enjoy.