Black Beans and Rice
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups black beans
3 cups rice
2 ½ cups onions
2 ½ cups peppers
¼ cup olive oil
4 cloves garlic
½ cup sofrito*
½ teaspoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 Tablespoon cumin
1 bay leaf
4 cups chicken stock
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups black beans
3 cups rice
2 ½ cups onions
2 ½ cups peppers
¼ cup olive oil
4 cloves garlic
½ cup sofrito*
½ teaspoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 Tablespoon cumin
1 bay leaf
4 cups chicken stock
*Sofrito:
5 cherry tomatoes
½ a pepper
½ an onion
2 cloves of garlic
½ bay leaf
touch of cumin
touch of oregano
about ¼ cup sherry or to taste
salt to taste (optional)
Directions: blend the tomatoes, pepper and onion, then sauté everything (but sherry) in oil till all veggies are "limp". Add sherry and let simmer.
DIRECTIONS:
- Cover beans with water and boil/simmer till tender. About 1 hr
- Sauté onion & pepper, add garlic & sofrito, then add tomato paste, beans & herbs and cook for 5 minutes stirring gently.
- Add chicken stock and rice. Season with plenty of salt. Boil/simmer till rice is done. About 20-30 minutes.
- Makes a lot…enough for about 8
- We liked it plain or in tortillas
- Enjoy!
Notes:
I don’t like cooked peppers or onions much so I only put in about ½ of a pepper and onion. I also don’t really like spicy things so I put cumin in to taste. I had to keep adding water to the beans because they used it up as they cooked and I didn’t need any salt because the chicken stock had enough in it. I thought about making more sofrito and putting it in the freezer to use later.
6 comments:
Thanks Erin! It does look good and like it would make a lot! I'll have to try it soon!
mmmmmm black beans and rice.... that would be a new favorite around here...just had it last saturday in fact:) I just add salsa and cilantro to black beans with a touch of garlic and olive oil:) mmmm chilis has the best black beans though:)
Hmmm...that sounds good too. thanks for the tip. I need to try your soup recipie you put on here a while back. Once it's really cool here that is.
I want to try it, but I have questions... would it work without
cumin and is it really just a 1/2tsp tomatoe paste? I think I have everything else, and mmmmm it sounds good!
okay, it's official...it's good:) We had it for dinner!
Yeah! I made some more but decided that I should have put all the called-for cumin in as it doesn't have enough flavor. We just have to put it on before we eat it. I'm glad you like it!!
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