Cooking Cuban - Frijoles Negros (Black Beans) 

You can always tell an old school cook. They don't have time to be bothered with complex techniques or supper picky measuring. They just know what the dish feels like because they have done it a thousand times, and they don't have time for nonsense. It's all about simple, and get the meal on the table. The love takes care of the details.

hahahahahaha. There is nothing better than watching a grandmother cook!

OMG! So cute! So heart (and belly) warming. I am a softy for grandmas from all over the world. Where would we be without them? I can't wait to make it seven years later! Love to your familia.

l like 3 thing about this video 1 the recipe is great 2 the abuela is great 3 I like you

Love, love, love this recipe. I’ve made this several times, it tastes better every time! Thank you for sharing...love your granny!

I have missed Cuban food so much. I didn't think it would be so hard to find a decent Cuban place in Texas... so I've taken to cooking it myself. Never made black beans on my own but this video was so easy to follow along. Your grandmother is a precious gem and reminds me a lot of mine when they were alive. The beans were exactly the flavor I was looking for. Husband and I enjoyed them for a long time. Thank you for the video. Everything about it made it feel like home.

Awww! Que chula la abuela ❤️!

Love 💗 Cuban grandmothers, they give us so much love. We are blessed to have Cuban grandmothers 😊

Classic! - love your abuela! - Love the interaction you guys were having during the video.

I absolutely LOVE Cuban food. My God parents are Cuban, I miss my madrina's cooking. Madrina Lidia was a wonderful cook.

i made these on Saturday! amazing and super easy. riquisimos!

grandma is super funny, thank you for this video

Love this video Sam! Just watching you share with your abuelita, it's priceless! And of course, the Cuban recipe for frijoles negros!!! I'm Venezuelan, and although we cook them pretty much like that, it's great to see an original Cuban Abuela Style💖

Tu abuelita is everything! Muchas gracias a las dos por compartir el secreto de sus frijoles =). Soy cubana y ya tienes un new subscriber.

I love it. I love you. Thank you. Your abuela is very sweet, funny and we appreciate her just as much as you. Im gona make this tomorow :) got to make sure i have everything i need

Tu abuelita es lo máximo!!!!...gracias por la receta.

Thank you for this!!! Came out awesome!!! Gracias abuela

Your grandma is so nice and natural lady ... Thank you for delicious recipe .

I have tried for so many years to make them like my Mima and never came out good , so I stopped for years making them ! Than I said let me attempt this again and I found your Mima video.. I made them and WOW!!! It took me back to my Mima house ❤️Thank you for sharing your wonderful Mima with us and her Frioles ❤️

What a beautiful abuela! Thank you for sharing.

Love your adorable grand mom and her cooking style: throwing everything in the pot just works for me!

Your grandmother is fantastic I am trying this right now it’s on the stove cooking will see how it comes out have a great day thank you stay safe

I love your abuela’s cooking. Your recipes are the best!

Love this! Exactly the way I cook. Tu abuela mola! Yum away!

I'm making this right now! thank you so much!

Your grandma brings back memories of my Cuban grandmother and aunt . Thank you so much I miss them so much . Having black beans steak and toastonez was a main staple when we would visit.

Loving all of your videos. Making this as I write this. Thanks so much for sharing.

She's just constantly cleaning. It’s subconscious.

So delicious I love your grandma she’s so cute 🥰 also I’m Mexican and Cuban is my favorite food 😋🤤 I am so glad I found your page thank you for this great recipe #foodporn 🤤 bendiciones 💗🙏🏼

I absolutely love Cuban black beans and Cuban food in general. You have such a wonderful and beautiful family and your videos are fantastic. Sending lots of love.

I love this type of cooking. It puts me right back at home in my Mams kitchen ❤❤ precious memories. Thank you for sharing

Wow these come out so good! I’ve always made freshly chopped and fried sofrito after the beans are done and add them at the end but this way is so much quicker and taste amazing! Thanks for sharing 🥰

I love your grandma!!!

Wow, Sam your grama is amazing. I have tried this recipe and it came out great. Please keep the recipes coming.

Omg I love your grandma. I am Cuban and grew up in Miami. She reminds me of home. :)

Ur awesome i wanted a well explained recipe like this for hours 👌🏻💚

It's a joy to watch her grandmother cook

BLESSINGS TO YOU & YOUR FAMILY! THANKS SO MUCH ....I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO & LISTENING TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MUSIC OF BELOVED CELIA CRUZ.

Hello, first time watching your vedio. And believe it today will be my first time to cook black beans. Yours look soooo delishous! Happy I found you😊

I have always wanted to learn how to make black beans, thank you!

Awesome...i miss my abuela!!!

Will definitely give this a try soon

Me encanto el video. Gracias por compartir su abuela y su cocina. Esta es mi tradicion familiar ahora. Mi esposo e hijos les encantan. Hagan mas por favor. Oyeme Sam love the spanlish. Great videos.

I love her already, " Whole"😂

Best recipe out there for this I’ve been coming back to watch this video for weeks now

I just made this recipe. It was so delicious. Thank you for sharing your recipe.

These are the best cuban black beans I have made. Thank you grandma/mima! I make them about every week.

My favorite cooking videos are almost always people cooking with their moms or grandmas. Experience and cooked with love.

Great video! Gracias!!! 😘😘😘 Can't wait to try this recipe!🤗

Awesome recipe we tried it. Great tasting beans, so easy to follow.

Holy cow. I made this for the first time and they came out perfect. It was so so good. Reminded me of living in Miami. Thanks for sharing.

Love this! What a wonderful family

Thank You for sharing :) I have not had Cuban , Black Beans and Rice since my childhood in Miami.

Me and the wife are gonna try this tonight, Thank you

yoooo my abuela makes some killer frijoles cubanos too! I swear I could smell them through your cameraa!! Great abuela!!! Thanks for sharing!

Easy peasy hardly no cutting great I'm trying this today. Thanks

Loved how she wiped the sink off real quick as she was talking to you...just like a Grandma!

I just cooked this beans for the first time although I used the same method of cooking Black eye pea and turned out great. Am enjoying it with rice as I watch this video.

Hey, Sam!! Love your videos and your Abuela! You're pretty awesome, and the two of you are super funny, lol. Love the recipes; keep 'em coming, please. Un abrazo fuerte y un beso a la Abuela y dale las gracias de mi parte por compartir sus recetas con nosotros :) I've tried all her recipes and they are all great!! Thank you!!! :)

Making em now!!!!!!!! Smells delicious 😋🙏🏽❤️

Made this last night in my new pressure cooker. I added 2) habanero, cilantro stocks and 1/2 lemon squeezed and thrown in. The lemon knocks it out of the park!

Honey thank you for sharing your grandma!!! Dile que esta Argentina le manda un abrazo gigante!

Awesome! Black beans are amazing!

the moment I saw her pour in a generous amount of olive oil...this is the True Cuban Recipe for me!

loved it

Oh my Sam, watching your Abuelita cook put a smile on my face, it reminds me oh how my Dad used to cook the same way measuring everything by eye, come to think of it he didn’t use measuring spoons, cups or written recipes. By the way I also mash some of my beans even though some Cubanos say that it wrong to do, but I don’t like my beans too soupy they need a bit more body for my taste so I make them a mi manera just like your abuelita.

I love your channel. It has reconnected me to my Cuban roots back home in Miami. I’ve been in Houston for 11 years away from my grandmother who is quite a chef and it’s hard to find some good Cuban cooking close by at a reasonable price... And of course, I didn’t know how to cook this kind of stuff as my mother and grandmother didn’t like people in the kitchen while they cooked. Lol ... thank you so much for your channel and it’s authenticity. I’m currently cooking this bean recipe for my husband (who is an African American black man lol) and hopefully they come out as good as I KNOW ABUELAS beans came out. I’ll will give an update. Again Thank You and tell abuela I love her and she is the best! 😇

Well done!

Wow, your Abuela reminds me so much of my Nino's Mom. She would always have so much fun when she cooked; this is the food I grew up with both at home and at my Nino's house. I've already tried your 'Carne Con Papa' recipe (AWESOME), and I am currently waiting for my black beans to finish cooking. Thank you!

That was awesome. Im Puerto Rican and make sofrito by huge batches, gonna try a rendition with my preground sofrito. Ty

Looks good!

Looks yummy!

thanks i enjoyed the cooking video.

Thank you I made it was great. I love your grandmas arroz con pollo. The closet to my moms.

I should try this one, sounds like black beans is the perfect choice for a diet.

Awesome!!! I love your Grandmother's style of cooking this (Cuban Black Beans) recipe. I admire the way she uses semi-whole vegetables in her recipe, instead of chopped. I will try her style of cooking this recipe. Except, I might use crushed fresh garlic cloves from the beginning of the cooking. However, I will do the other vegetables as she did. Using your grandmother's post cooking vegetable crushing technique gives a meat presence affect as the pieces are more noticeable in sight and taste texture. I will figure out the recipe's ingredient measurements.Thank you much!Eddie Hodges/ Philadelphia PA USA

super yummy. thanks

love the video,recipe,and the ladies.

I love black beans. Goya products are great 👍👍

I like the grandma comments. And grandpa in the background!

Thank you! What would the world do without our abuelas..!! I must try those beans! I just wonder if my pressure cooker is big enough...??

Thank you!

Very good!

I like em aguaos!!!!😋. Hacer frijoles!!!!😍

Unrelated to cooking but usually bilingual videos are in American English and Mexican Spanish but I loved hearing your Cuban Spanish! More Spanish varieties in USA!

From Viv..Quiero ver al abuelo cocina! (: bellos todos DLB..

Sabrosa comida cubana 🔝Saludos

I love love her recipe cuz it's pure Cuban... but what about if u don't have a pressure cooker? do you boil the ingredients first???

Could I use canola oil instead ? Also if I'm missing a couple ingredients like green peppers and the bay leafs would it still be fine?

Yummmmmmmm

Omg ! & that will say it all .

What do those empanada taco looking things have in them?I see them at the end of the video.

Sam, ask Abuela her opinion on red wine vinegar. I'm curious as to what she thinks. It's what I use.

From where do Kubans get Oliveoil?

This is the classical... from Pinar and Habana till Camaguey.. after that in Palestine, nobody knows really.. too spooky Jjj this good for you, physically and mentally...do it, it takes time, love and attention.. you'll be rewarded! que tenga un lindo dia 🎉⏳🎈

I don't have a pressure cooker with me since I'm away at school, but would I be able to cook the beans with a pot?

Do you provide printable versions of your recipes?

Good ole abuela cooking nothing like it

As a cuban born and raised this is the first time i see someone do it this way. when you make the sofrito with already used garlic and bell pepper u wont take any flavor from it,the pressure cooker already did.Yet it might work, i will give it a shot making it this way to see what happens

My mom made the best Black Beans, she never left chunks in it!