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Homemade Black Beans

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My sister has been making homemade black beans for years and every time she makes them I am super impressed with her as I always thought making homemade black beans would be difficult.

Sometimes in making a recipe, it’s seeing how the recipe is made that takes the “difficult” out of the dish.  What I mean by that is that recently I was at my friend Janine’s house and she was making me dinner and she had a pot of homemade black beans on the stove top.  After seeing how she made them I realized the simplicity of making the beans and knew that I would be able to make them myself.

Traditional black beans are made by using bacon grease or lard, for my version of homemade black beans I did more of a vegetarian recipe.  I like my beans to be spicy so I added 2 jalapeños but if you are not someone who likes spice you can omit them.  Making the beans homemade not only tastes better but the cost was only $2.00 for the beans and I basically had the rest of the ingredients.

In using dried beans you always want to make sure there are not particles in the beans prior to cooking so I just put them on a plate and in batches confirmed there were no rocks

dried beans

I then put them in a pan and covered the beans with water and added my jalapeños, bay leaves and garlic

jalapeno

I cooked the beans for about 1 1/2 hours

beans cooking

I smashed some of the beans to add to the thickness and I added some salt

Black Beans

and that was pretty much all I had to do.  As you can see this is a super easy recipe to make, it only takes time but let me tell you, the taste surpasses and store bought can.  You can alter the taste by adding things like cilantro, chopped onions, orange zest or a small amount of juice, you can add the lard or bacon and make more of traditional black beans.  Let me know what you think when you make your dish!

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Homemade Black Beans

Ingredients

  • 1 bag Dried Black Beans
  • 3 cloves Garlic
  • 2 Bay Leaves
  • 1-2 Jalapeños
  • Salt
  • Water

Directions

  1. Make sure you go through your beans to remove any rocks.
  2. Place your beans in a pan and cover with water, about 4-5 cups of water. Place the garlic, bay leaves and jalapeños in the pan and bring to a boil.
  3. Once the beans reach a boil, reduce the heat to a simmer, cover the pan and cook for about 1 1/2 hours, do not cook the beans on high heat uncovered.
  4. Once the beans are cooked through, use the back of a wooden spook and smash some of the beans. Season with salt and enjoy!
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