{"id":1290,"date":"2018-04-03T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:50:53","slug":"mexican-baked-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/mexican-baked-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Baked Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We grow a lot of beans in our garden and most of them are for dried beans for winter meals so we are always experimenting with bean recipes.\u00a0 After trips to New Mexico and Mexico we noticed that their baked beans were quite a bit different from typical Maritime Baked Beans which use molasses and brown sugar to create their flavour.\u00a0 The Mexican beans use spices and tomatoes.\u00a0 The beans we use depends on what we have on hand but traditionally they would be pinto beans.\u00a0 The tomatoes we use would be frozen from our summer harvest but you can use fresh or canned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">3 1\/2 cups dried beans, traditionally pinto beans<\/li>\n<li>1 bay leaf<\/li>\n<li>2 tbls oil<\/li>\n<li>1 large onion, small dice<\/li>\n<li>3 cloves garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 tbls cumin<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 tbls chilli powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teas cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1 cup diced tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 &#8211; 1\u00a0 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce deseeded and minced<\/li>\n<li>1 teas adobo sauce<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teas salt<\/li>\n<li>4 cups chicken stock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Soak dried beans overnight.\u00a0 Drain and add to a pot covering with fresh water.\u00a0 Add bay leaf.\u00a0 Bring to a boil and then simmer until soft.\u00a0 The cooking time will depend on the type of bean and how old the beans are.\u00a0 Check after 30 minutes then every 20 minutes after that.\u00a0 Drain beans.<\/li>\n<li>Add oil to a skillet or dutch oven and over medium heat add the onion cooking until translucent.\u00a0 Add the garlic and the spices and cook until you can smell the spice.\u00a0 Be careful not to burn the spices.<\/li>\n<li>Add the tomatoes, chipotle and adobo sauce.\u00a0 Simmer a few minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add beans to the dutch oven or slow cooker.\u00a0 If using a slow cooker transfer the contents of the skillet to the slow cooker as well.\u00a0 Add enough stock to fully cover the beans.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Place dutch oven in a 325 F oven for 4 hours, stirring every hour.\u00a0 The last hour of cooking you can remove the cover if you like you beans thick.<\/li>\n<li>If using a slow cooker, check your users manual for times.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p>When traveling in Santa Fe, New Mexico we attended a Farmers Market and bought some chilli powder which was labeled &#8220;mild smoky chilli powder&#8221;.\u00a0 I believe it to be ground ancho chillis.\u00a0 I find it superior to Canadian chilli powder.\u00a0 Ancho chillis can be found in grocery stores usually in the produce section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We grow a lot of beans in our garden and most of them are for dried beans for winter meals so we are always experimenting with bean recipes.\u00a0 After trips to New Mexico and Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,67,88],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}