From Cookie and Kate
How to Cook Black Beans
- Time
- 1 hr 25 min
- Makes
- 6
- Ingredients
- 12
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Ingredients
- 1 pound (16 ounces or scant 2 ½ cups) dried black beans*
- 1 medium red onion, chopped
- 4 medium cloves garlic, peeled but left whole
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- One strip of orange zest, about 2 inches long by ½ inch wide
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes (omit or reduce if sensitive to spice)
- 8 cups water**, more if needed
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro, optional
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
Nutrition · per serving
1 cup beans per serving
- Calories
- 291 kcal
- Fat
- 3.5 g
- Fiber
- 12.2 g
- Sugar
- 2.5 g
- Sodium
- 359 mg
- Protein
- 16.8 g
- Trans fat
- 0 g
- Cholesterol
- 0 mg
- Carbohydrate
- 50 g
- Saturated fat
- 0.6 g
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