Borracho Baked Beans Recipes

BORRACHO BEANS

Steps:

• In a medium pot over medium-high heat, stir to combine all ingredients except the cilantro and lime wedges. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low heat, and simmer for 20 minutes. Stir in cilantro and serve with lime wedges.

SOUTH TEXAS BORRACHO BEANS

Steps:

• Place pinto beans into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water. Soak beans 8 hours to overnight.
• Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crispy, about 10 minutes. Remove bacon slices to a plate lined with paper towel to drain, reserving the bacon drippings. Chop the bacon.
• Drain and rinse pinto beans; transfer to a large pot. Pour enough water over the beans to cover by several inches Stir salt and garlic powder into the water; bring to a boil and reduce heat to medium-low. Add bacon, reserved bacon drippings, beer, cilantro, green onions, diced tomatoes, and jalapeno pepper to the water; bring mixture to a simmer and cook until the beans are completely tender, 90 minutes to 2 hours.

ONE-POT TEXAS BORRACHO BEANS

Steps:

• Place bacon in a 2-quart pot. Cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove some bacon grease, as needed, to keep from boiling the bacon. Drain bacon slices on paper towels.
• Add onion to the pot; saute in the remaining bacon grease until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add chopped jalapeno; saute until starting to soften, about 2 minutes.
• Add the bacon, pinto beans, tomatoes, water, green onion, cilantro, salt, garlic powder, and chipotle to the onion mixture. Bring to a slow boil; reduce heat to medium. Cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture is hot and flavors meld, about 15 minutes.

BORRACHO BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• 1. Soak uncooked beans for 1 hour. Drain/rinse and set aside. In a saucepan add fresh garlic, dried ancho chili pods, and salt/pepper to taste.
• 2. Add just enough water to cover chili pods. Simmer until soft. Save 1/4 c of ancho juice to add in the blender.
• 3. In the blender add cooled contents and puree. Strain/add contents in a bowl and set aside.
• 4. Place uncooked beans in a 6 quart crockpot add enough water to cover the beans. Cook for 2 hours on medium.
• 5. When the 2 hours has passed then add onions, salt, garlic, chicken bouillon, chorizo, cumin, oregano, and cinnamon.
• 6. Cook for another 2 hours and add water if needed.
• 7. Add rum, brown sugar, strained chili puree, and cook for the remaining 2 hours. I separated the cooking times to slowly build up the flavors and to help the brown sugar/ rum to slightly thicken.
• 8. Serve in a bowl and garnish with queso fresco.

BORRACHO BEANS FROM SCRATCH

Steps:

• Sort through the beans, looking for small rocks and debris. Place in large bowl and rinse several times. Remove beans by hand into a clean bowl of water. (Do not pour beans out of the rinse bowl, as there may be sand and debris at the bottom of rinse bowl.) Fill the bowl with the newly rinsed beans with water and soak beans overnight.
• Drain off soaking water. In a large soup pot, bring 3 quarts of water to a boil and add beans and dark beer. Add garlic, Kosher salt, onion powder and chili powder to beans and beer. Lower the heat to simmer, cover pan and cook about 2 hours, or until beans are tender. When the beans are light brown and soft, add the cumin, Mexican oregano and jalapeno peppers.
• In a skillet over medium-high heat, fry bacon pieces and onions until bacon is crisp. Add to beans.
• Last, but not least, add the cilantro and fresh roma romatoes. Simmer for another hour.

EASY AND DELICIOUS BORRACHO BEANS

Steps:

• 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!