Easy and Delicious Borracho Beans
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
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Beans
- 4 slices bacon, diced
- 1⁄4 onion, chopped
- 2 (16 ounce) cans pinto beans (undrained)
- 1 (10 ounce) can Ro-Tel tomatoes (undrained)
- 1 (4 ounce) can diced green chilies (undrained)
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic (or use garlic powder to taste)
- 1 (12 ounce) bottle mexican beer (use only 1/2 bottle for thicker beans)
- 1⁄4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
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Garnish
- lime wedge
- shredded cheese
directions
- In a medium sized sauce pan, fry bacon and onion until the bacon is crisp (stirring often to make sure onion doesn't burn).
- add pinto beans, ro-tel tomatoes, chilies, garlic and beer to the pot.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer uncovered for about 20 minutes or until the sauce is to your desired thickness (if you have longer, it's better!).
- Stir in cilantro and garnich with lime or cheese or both!
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Reviews
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Borracho beans are like King Ranch casserole, spaghetti sauce, chili or beef stew. There as many versions of these beloved standards as there are cooks! I really loved this version and the addition of the Rotel tomatoes is a great shortcut, and made these beans very flavorful and tasty. This Texan much prefers some tomato in the beans to keep them from being bland. I will make these again! Thanks, Sooz.
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Welllll, having been a long time Texan, and having eaten borracho beans at least 100 times, I must say that I was very disappointed with this recipe. Borracho beans are usually a laid back fare with no tomatoes. But then again, the recipe didn't say "authentic". Maybe others will like it, and I am looking forward to reading their reviews.
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