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Thursday, Apr. 08, 2010 - 10:29 p.m. Refried Beans Excellence
use a good steel pot You are cooking more beans here than you can possible use ion one meal.. COOK A LOT OF BEANS ALL AT ONCE..
2_ cover soaked swollen beans with 3 cm fresh cold water 3- as water heats towards boiling note a a little white scum forming on surface. carefully remove this white scum. this is water soluable nitrogenous albumin, a protein - the source of bean farts . discard. Get it all 4_as soon as beans reach boiling point, let boil for three- five minutes, get all the bean scum thats left then reduce heat and put lid on pot. Simmer on low for 40 min. 5_ check progress of beans every 15 min til they are still slightly firm.. 6_ cut heat..drain water away and return water free beans to stove top .. keep lid on.. let sit an additional 20- 40 min. latent heat in bean mass will finish cooking, and they will finish slightly dry- ideal eating texture guaranteed. now the 1/3 of the warm beans A_ add a little water to them and blend them into a thick smooth paste in blender. Always add water to beans so its a thin slurry or risk burning out your blender motor B_ preheat a deep iron fry pan or heavy sauce pan with a an oz of veg oil. when oil is hot, add 2 rbsps of ground cumin and ground pepper and some salt to the hot oil.. flavour moves easily into hot oil, not readily into bean mass.. C_ add the bean slurry to the hot oil D_ add a large slivvered onion & a large carrot crated fine to the mixture. stirr it in E_with pan on med hotm keep moving mixture around, so that th bottom surface of the bean mass reacts to the direct heat of the hot pan bottom and the bean sugars caramalise. keep moving the mass around with a big spoon to constantly change the bean mass surface to the bottom of the hot pan This refrying/ caramalizing proceess should take about 20 min.- F_if mixture gets too dry just add more water/ You will note golden crust pieces surfacing from below as you flip the bean mass when its nearly done, It smells wonderful and not at all beany. G_when the onions go transparent so you can't see them anymore and the carrots H_ a generous wad of this refried bean super mixture in a wrap or tortilla with hot sauce and shredded lettuce or whatever you want is a completely satisfying meal. You won't be hungry at all for several hours. Its good hot or cold. Any extra you make stores well in freezer or fridge.. make a lot at once and use it up later. You will be glad you did.. refried beans make a great dip or sandwich filling.. If a kitchen relay team would make up an expanded volume of this recipe at a time they could feed many many people for a very few dollars a Cost per meal unit: pennies I have perfected this recipe after much trial and error
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