Free Recipe Basic Black Beans

Recipe Type: Free Misc Recipes
Recipe Preparation: boil
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Recipe Serves: 6

Ingredients for Basic Black Beans Recipe

14 oz Dried black beans
2 qt Water
1/8 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Ground oregano
2 ts Ground cumin
1 Green pepper; quartered
1/2 Onion; finely chopped
3 tb Minced garlic
1/4 c Olive oil
3 tb Cider vinegar
1/4 c Sherry wine
Salt; to taste

Basic Black Beans Preparation

Rinse beans and discard any stones. In a large pot, soak beans overnight in water with baking soda, oregano, cumin and green pepper. The next day, add onion, garlic, olive oil, cider vinegar, sherry and salt to the water and cook on medium-low heat for about 3 hours or until the beans are very tender and liquid is reduced and somewhat thickened. Make sure liquid in pot does not entirely boil away. To prevent beans from burning, add more water when necessary. Recipe from Sandy Vasquez of Honduras and Miami, FL, who got the recipe from her Cuban grandmother. Tried on 09/01/90 when Sandy taught a Cuban cooking class at The Cookbook Cottage/1279 Bardstown Rd./Louisville, KY 40204. Posted by Cathy Harned. Fidonet GOURMET echo Recipe by: Sandy Vasquez of Honduras and Miami, FL, Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #989 by The Meades <kmeade@idsonline.com> on Jan 6, 1998

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