Tex Mex

Charro Beans

Name: Charro Beans
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 3 15 oz cans canned pinto beans, with their liquid; 4 slices bacon, chopped; 1 tomato, chopped; 1 jalapeno, chopped; 1/2 onion, chopped; 2 garlic cloves; 2 tbsp chopped cilantro; 1/2 tsp salt

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Charro Beans is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the protein alongside. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Easy High fiber Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 15 oz cans canned pinto beans, with their liquid
4 slices bacon, chopped
1 tomato, chopped
1 jalapeno, chopped
1/2 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves
2 tbsp chopped cilantro
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Cook the bacon in a large pot over medium heat until crisp, about 5 minutes.
Add the onion, garlic, and jalapeno and cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
Add the beans with their liquid and a splash of water and bring to a simmer.
Stir in the tomato and cilantro and season with salt.
Simmer a few more minutes so the beans stay whole in a thin, savory broth, and serve.

Watch how to cook Charro Beans

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Charro Beans, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bean and Cheese Burrito
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Refried Beans
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Guacamole Casero
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Charro Beans carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Charro Beans
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 230 kcal
Protein: 13 g
Carbs: 37 g
Fat: 3 g
Fiber: 8 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Charro Beans takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.