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Whip up a bowl of homemade Refried Beans for a quick side dish or snack food.
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Once rendered, lard can be stored in glass jars and frozen for up to a year.
Photo by Rachel Abernathy
4 servings
SERVINGS
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons lard and/or cracklings
- 4 cups cooked pinto beans, plus reserved cooking liquid
- Salt, to taste
Directions
- In a large skillet, melt lard over medium heat.
- Add beans and stir until they just start to brown, about 3 minutes.
- Mash beans, and season with salt.
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• Breakfast Skillet Recipe • World’s Best Kale Recipe • Pork Chops with Apples Recipe • Tenderloin Stir-Fry Recipe • Home-Rendered RecipesI grew up in Texas, three hours from the Mexican border, so Mexican food is my comfort food. When I was a vegetarian in the 1990s, I missed the taste of real refried beans, but I wasn’t willing to use commercial lard to achieve that flavor — one reason I may always have to raise pigs.
