Restaurant Style Refried Beans are great. Pinto Beans cooked in chicken broth, with jalapeno, onions, garlic, cumin, and red pepper. Mashed and topped with cheese.
Restaurant Style Refried Beans
These spicy Restaurant Style Refried Beans are cooked in the instant pot and the perfect side dish with Easy Beef Enchiladas or Easy Sheet Pan Fajitas. When you go out for a Mexican meal it's not complete without rice and beans. Do you agree? However, we haven't been eating out much. With Joe living a Keto, low carb lifestyle and now the pandemic keeping us at home. It was time to explore a bean recipe. This one is great.
After deciding that I wanted to find an instant pot recipe, I did some research and came across a recipe at wellplated.com/instant-pot-refried-beans/ they looked great. After doing a little tweaking of the recipe, they were my own.
Making these beans really took me back to the 90"s when I was a Taco Bell Manager. Making the beans back in those days was a major production. You had to wash the beans, cook the beans in a pressure cooker, when they were done you used what looked like a hand drill. (for these I used an immersion blender) . They then had to sit refrigerated for a day and were put in big pans with lard added and refried. These days they get them in dehydrated and just add hot water.-Definitely not the same.
How to Make Restaurant Style Refried Beans :
INGREDIENTS NEEDED :
- Dry Pinto Beans
- Olive Oil
- Yellow or White Onion
- Fresh Jalapeno
- Minced Garlic
- Chicken Broth
- Water
- Kosher Salt
- Black Pepper
- Red Pepper
- Cumin
Garnishes (optional)
- Shredded Cheese
- Chopped Onion
- Salsa -Copy Cat Chipotle Tomatillo Green-Chili Salsa
- Sour Cream
- Salsa
INSTRUCTIONS :
- Place the pinto beans in a colander/strainer rinse them well. Pick out any damaged beans. Set the rinsed beans aside.
- Set Instant Pot on Saute - add the oil, when it is hot, add onion and jalapeno saute , add garlic, pour a small amount of chicken broth in the pot and scrape any stuck-on bits from the pot. Add remaining chicken broth, water, salt, cumin , black pepper, and red pepper
- Close and seal the instant pot cook on manual high for 45 minutes - natural release for 25 minutes - release any remaining pressure and open lid. Beans will have a lot of liquid, keep 2 cups of liquid - set aside - drain any remaining liquid
- Return to Instant Pot with an immersion blender, blend until desired consistency adding the liquid that you set aside as needed.
- Serve as is or can be refried in a cast iron frying pan
Beans in the Pot
Cooking the Beans
Cooked Beans
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Restaurant Style Refried Beans (Instant Pot)
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
- Immersion Blender
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Dry Pinto Beans 1 lb bag
- 2 teaspoon Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 Small Yellow or white onion Diced
- 1 Fresh Jalapeno cored,seeded and diced
- 1 tablespoon Minced Garlic
- 4 cups Chicken Broth
- 3 cups Water
- 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 1 teaspoon Cumin
- ½ teaspoon Black Pepper
- ¼ teaspoon Red/Cayenne Pepper
Optional Garnishes
- Shredded Cheese
- Chopped Onion
- Salsa
- Sour Cream
- Guacamole
Instructions
- Place the pinto beans in a colander/strainer rinse them well. Pick out any damaged beans. Set the rinsed beans aside.
- Set Instant Pot on Saute - add the oil, when it is hot, add onion and jalapeno saute , add garlic, pour a small amount of chicken broth in the pot and scrape any stuck-on bits from the pot. Add remaining chicken broth, water, salt, cumin , black pepper, and red pepper
- Close and seal the instant pot cook on manual high for 45 minutes - natural release for 25 minutes - release any remaining pressure and open lid. Beans will have a lot of liquid, keep 2 cups of liquid - set aside - drain any remaining liquid
- Return to Instant Pot with an immersion blender, blend until desired consistency adding the liquid that you set aside as needed.
- Serve as is or can be refried in a cast iron frying pan
Awesome beans. My family loves these beans. Made them for dinner tonight with carnitas.
Thanks so much for giving them a try. Glad you enjoyed them
Yum! I've tried a lot of recipes for instapot refried beans but this is my favorite. My husband came home as they finished cooking and commented on how great they smelled. This is a man who comes home every night to an aromatic kitchen! Mine took a bit longer to cook, maybe because I weighed the beans instead of measuring. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much, glad you liked them.