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Chef John's Refried Beans
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Chef John
"I don't think I would ever sit down to eat just a bowl of refried beans, but they make everything they're served on, with, or in, infinitely better. Just as long as you use lard to make them."
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Ingredients
12 h 10 m servings 317Original recipe yields 8 servings
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Drain soaked beans and transfer them to a stock pot. Add garlic, epazote, and cold water. Place pot over high heat and bring to a boil. Stir. Reduce heat to low. Simmer uncovered until beans are soft, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Drain the beans and reserve all the liquid.
- Melt lard in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and salt; cook until onions start to brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Stir in serrano pepper and chipotle powder; cook 1 minute. Transfer drained beans into skillet. Mash about half the beans with a potato masher or back of a spoon. Ladle some bean cooking liquid to skillet. Continue to mash and stir beans as you gradually add more liquid. Mash until the beans have reached your preferred consistency and texture. Taste and add more salt, if desired.
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Footnotes
- Chef's Note:
- You can substitute 1 teaspoon dried oregano for 1/2 teaspoon epazote.
- If you want the beans loose enough to spoon over tortilla chips for nachos, you'll probably need to add all the cooking liquid. But that's up to you.
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8/6/2017
OK, the lard is IT. I could wax poetic about the interesting way lard can take heat (medium high), the wonderful smell while frying, the insane flavor of the refried beans, and on and on... I fo...
10/8/2017
These were by far the best refried beans ever. I will never eat them from a can again. Chef John is my new cooking guru.
4/16/2019
Way better than caned beans!!! We loved it a lot. But instead of the leafs on top we put Mexican sour cream and it was DELICIOUS!
9/11/2017
My family will never eat canned refried beans again. This was excellent.
1/26/2019
These beans turned out so yummy! I used bacon fat I had stored because my store didn't have lard. Online people said bacon fat works so I went for it, not disappointed at all. I want to say this...
4/17/2018
It's personal, but for my next batch I'll probably drop to one Serrano instead of two. Of course, the Serrano's I bought we're rather large. Excellent and easy recipe. I doubt we'll ever eat ...
2/18/2018
I have been trying to make beans for 10 years and they have been so so. I stumbled on to this recipe and tried it and it is to die for. It has to be the lard that makes the beans so good. I h...
10/11/2017
Chef John ROCKS!! Used canned beans and hid the can of lard (what they don't know...)
7/11/2017
Excellent refried bean recipe! I made this for a trip to the family ranch with my parents, siblings, their husbands, and kids. Everyone loved them. The only thing I changed was the amount of di...