Mexican
Frijoles de la Olla (Pot Beans)
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Frijoles de la Olla (Pot Beans) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the protein alongside, the dish at the centre, and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the beans and pick over for stones.
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Place the beans, onion, and water in a large pot and bring to a boil.
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Reduce to a low simmer, partially cover, and cook about 2 hours, topping up water as needed, until the beans are fully soft.
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Add the epazote and salt in the last 15 minutes of cooking, never earlier.
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Serve in a bowl with their broth. This pot is the keystone of the whole kitchen: broth-y today, refried tomorrow, folded into enfrijoladas by the fourth day. Only about 5 minutes of this is hands-on; the rest is unattended simmering.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Frijoles de la Olla (Pot Beans), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Frijoles de la Olla (Pot Beans) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| 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
- 410 kcal
- Protein
- 25 g
- Carbs
- 75 g
- Fat
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 14 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Frijoles de la Olla (Pot Beans) takes about 130 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.
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