Tex Mex

Refried Beans

Name: Refried Beans
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 4 15 oz cans canned pinto beans, with their liquid; 1/2 onion, chopped; 2 garlic cloves; 3 tbsp cooking oil; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp ground cumin

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Refried Beans is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with and 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.

25 min Easy High fiber Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 15 oz cans canned pinto beans, with their liquid
1/2 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves
3 tbsp cooking oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cumin

How to cook it

Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat and cook the onion and garlic until soft, about 4 minutes.
Add the beans with a splash of their liquid and cook, mashing with a potato masher or the back of a spoon, until mostly smooth.
Continue cooking, stirring and adding more of the reserved liquid as needed, until creamy and heated through, about 8 minutes.
Season with salt and cumin and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Refried 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 Refried Beans, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bean and Cheese Burrito
  
  20 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. Refried Beans carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Refried 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: 170 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 23 g
Fat: 5 g
Fiber: 6 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 560 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

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

When to cook it

Refried Beans takes about 25 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.