Mexican
Frijoles Refritos (Refried Beans)
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Frijoles Refritos (Refried Beans) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at breakfast, 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.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Melt the lard in a heavy skillet over medium heat and saute the onion 2 minutes.
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Add the beans with a splash of their liquid and mash them roughly with a spoon or bean masher.
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Cook, stirring and mashing, until the beans tighten into a thick paste that pulls away from the pan, about 8 minutes.
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Season with the salt.
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Serve hot. Lard is the traditional fat here and is what makes this pot the one to check before calling any bean dish vegetarian; a household cooking for a vegetarian guest swaps in the same quantity of oil instead.
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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 Refritos (Refried Beans), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Frijoles Refritos (Refried 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
- 350 kcal
- Protein
- 12 g
- Carbs
- 30 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Fiber
- 8 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Frijoles Refritos (Refried Beans) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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