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🍲 Refried Beans

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Oddly enough, refried beans (frijoles refritos) are only fried once. The prefix "re" is a Spanish prefix meaning "very" or "well", inappropriately tacked onto a non-Spanish word.

Refried Beans
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This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

  • Pinto beans or black beans
  • Butter (optional) or home-rendered lard (optional)

Method

  1. If using dried beans, wash them then cover with water in a medium pot and simmer according to the package directions. You may add onion halves or a ham bone, which you can remove at the end.thumb|339x339px|Cooked Cookbook:Bean|Beans and ham bone
  2. If using canned beans, rinse them briefly before use.
  3. Smash the beans, perhaps with a potato masher.
  4. Add home-rendered lard or butter, totaling up to 20% of the total (25% of the amount prior to adding). You may also use a substantially smaller amount of some other oil or omit it entirely.
  5. Fry the beans, stirring and turning them until they thicken to the degree you desire, which can be anywhere from soupy to parched.
Where this came from. Adapted from Refried Beans in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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