Mombacho Café Black Beans

Ingredients

Steps

Ingredients

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Step 1 -

Heat oil in a pot to moderate heat.

Step 2 -

Add Mombacho Café Cooking Base and sauté for 5 min until simmering.

Step 3 -

Stir in Mombacho Café Spice Blend.

Step 4 -

Add drained beans, chicken stock, orange slices and a couple pinches of salt.

Step 5 -

Bring to a boil and turn down heat to medium or medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for approximately 1 hour until beans are tender

Step 6 -

Add kale and increase heat to high to reduce liquid until the beans have a creamy consistency — about 5–10 minutes.

Step 7 -

Add sherry vinegar and season with salt, to taste.

Step 8 -

Garnish with cheese to serve.

The recipe calls for vegetable oil — but feel free to use bacon fat or lard, (Mombacho Cafe Cooking Base has bacon in it); any oil or fat will work here
Homemade or store bought chicken stock is fine; It’s good to start with unsalted or lightly salted stocks so you can control the salt content yourself
To rinse the beans, cover in water first, the “bad” beans will rise to the top for discarding; pour through a colander over the sink to drain
There is no need to soak black beans overnight unlike other beans
Cooking your beans in salted water does not keep your beans from getting tender contrary to what we were all taught, but acid does. I like to season the cooking liquid slightly and then add a touch of vinegar and salt at the end of cooking to balance flavors.
Pack your kale down into the measuring cups to make sure you have enough
Increasing the heat at the end to cook off extra liquid will make a nice, creamy sauce
Salty cheese goes best with this dish, but feel free to use what you have on hand