The best Mexican pot beans.Mam recipe with my ingredients.
I made some changes to the dish (how my mom prepared) because here I couldn't find chorizo(Spicy pork sausage).In your case, if you find it, you can use and fry just after you fry the bacon.
I use Beef Dried meat .Its use too much here (in Bosnia and Herzegovina), where I am now.I like the flavor of dried meat in beans, but, if you prefer you can use beef or pork ribs.
Ingredients:
Bay or pinto beans.
3-4 Tomatoes. (In my case I just use 3 because my pot is small).
4 Slices of bacon (chop to put in beans)
4 Sausages.
3/4 of onion (1/4 for boil the beans, 1/2 for sauce).
2 Garlic cloves ( 1 for boil the beans, 1 for sauce).
Dry meat (Optional, you can use also beef or pork ribs, but you need to put salt and pepper to the meat and sail before put in beans)
Chopped coriander.
Vegetable stock powder.
Cumin.
Salt and pepper.
Sugar.
How to prepare:
Wash beans and put in water to stay overnight, or at least 5 hours.More they stay in water, the faster they will be cooked. Make sure to cover well all beans with water,because the beans will expand.
With strainer, remove all water from beans and then put in a pot with clean water.
Add 1/4 of onion and 1 garlic Clove.Leave in medium-high heat.Review and add water when necessary.
After 1 hour review the beans and if beans are cooked, add salt and the meat.Leave them to continue cook with the meat.Add water if necessary.
Leave beans in low heat.
For the sauce:
Boil tomatoes.
After boil, peel tomatoes and add to mixer.
Add 1/2 onion and 1 garlic clove.
Add water (I use also bit of water from the beans that are cooking. I add also the onion and garlic clove that I remove from the beans.This is optional.I like the flavor that give to the sauce)
Pepper to taste
Cumin (half of teaspoonful).
Vegetables stock in powder.I use less than a half of teaspoonful. If you want, use salt instead .Don't put too much.
Mix all ingredients.
Combine sauce and beans:
When sauce is ready, add with a strainer (I forgot to use :(... but even though, were delicious), Don't turn off the beans,
continue in low heat.
In a pan with little bit of oil or without oil if you are using teflon, add the chopped bacon.Bacon when start fry, will release oil.That's why you don't need oil.Actually, you can remove bit of oil from bacon to not have too much greas in your beans.
Add the sausage and fry until golden.Not too much.You don't want to burn it.... :)
Add bacon and sausage to the beans that continue in low heat with the sauce and meat.
Review the beans.Let them one hour more with all ingredients in low heat, to have good taste.If need more water, you can add.
After 1 hour with all ingredients and in low heat, add chopped coriander.If like me, you didn't get natural coriander, you can add dry parsley or dry chives.But the coriander will give really good flavor.Leave for 10 more minutes and put aside.
Tip: If you get Chorizo, you can add just after you add the bacon, fry and then add the sausage.
