Marvelous Beans: Pinto 

My dad was the youngest of ten, nine surviving. They are all gone now. My grandma did a lot of canning, so did my mom. Great to be reminded of bean versatility.

Pintos are my favorite! They are a great protein replacement.

Fixed pinto beans for our 4 th of July Bar B Q. I use a wonderful recipe from Texas that has been in the family over 50 years. It’s such a family favorite that it is asked for every time we Bar B Q!

Getting ready to go to bed and saw you just posted. Living in NM we eat a lot of beans. Nice to have some new recipes. Great video

To keep your salt from clumping up put 5-6 dry pinto beans in your container and they will keep the salt from sticking together. My mother taught us to do that when we were little I’m 65 now and it’s always worked for me . Just leave them in the container.

I grew up with pinto and navy beans. Pinto with Ham or Hamburger meat and white cornbread. Navy always with Ham and yellow cornbread. Sometimes we had either with biscuits instead of cornbread. After school Mom would make mashed pinto bean sandwiches with mustard. I still incorporate these meals with some additions now. I am 70.

Thank you both so much! I will try all three!!

This is the first time I've seen a pinto beans salad. It looks great

My sister suggested an immersion blender to mash the beans and that was genius!

Beans: (especially pinto) a staple on this homestead.😊

I also grew up eating beans. I still luv them all except Limas. Thanks for sharing, I luv all your videos!

I make my beans in the instant pot what a time saver.

Love the idea of beans in a summer salad. 😊

My husband and I have never ever been a fan of any beans but baked. But since I have decided to learn pressure canning this January, we are changing our minds a bit. Looking forward to watching all your bean videos

I had beans cooked, so I made Refried beans today. They turned out better & easier than I figured!

Another great marvelous beans video. Thank you so much.

I have home canned and store bought pinto beans, as well as refried (store) and creamed(store that I use in chili). I don't know why I never thought to make my own refried beans! I now have another backup! The salad looks delicious! I would have never thought of cold pinto beans! Sounds perfect for these hot days. And you can't go wrong with beans and ham! Except you forgot the cornbread!😊😋 Thanks for sharing!

Pintos with hammocks is the only way we fix them. The southern way. I’m from Tennessee and we call them soup beans lol

I love Mexican food so have really enjoyed this video. I use chicken broth when cooking many dishes. My husband, who passed away almost 3 months ago, had a very sensitive digestive system, so I found cooking with chicken broth helped. I don’t cook much these days, but I am going to definitely make the pinto bean salad.

Thank you! Love the refried bean recipe!

I add fresh garlic & green pepper to my beans - for flavor & some cumin too

Thank you

Many meals I make involve burger and beans. Opening a pint of beans to add to burger and whatever else is needed for the dish seems to always end up with leftovers--usually not enough for a meal So--I've started canning Beef 'n Beans. 1/3 to 1/2 cup of cooked burger (depending on how much burger I have), then fill a pint 3/4 full of soaked beans. Whatever spices and herbs suit my fancy of the moment, water to the correct headspace, then pressure for 75 minutes. This worked out so well that I have ventured out further into beanville. Any white beans with ground pork or sausage, cannelini beans with turkey, Anasazi or mayacoba with chicken, red beans with beef or venison...the combinations are endless. The best thing is that, with the addition of the vegetable part of the recipe, or the making of the pint into 'refried', or patties, there are no leftover dibs and dabs. I actually do like some leftovers--usually planned-overs--but I got tired of the lab in my fridge. My anti-virals don't need to include homegrown 'I wonder what that was' drugs, thank you very much! A few days ago, I canned 17 pints of Beef 'n Beans, half with the addition of smoked paprika. The protein for 17 meals, on the shelf, easy-peasy, and, since the burger was on sale, relatively cheap. Love, love beans!!

Ordered. I absolutely love pintos and love your channel as well. I was especially impressed with the fact that you don't double dip! Could you please make a video on this subject? I have seen cooking videos where I am gagging because they are doing this. If I make a comment expressing my disgust, I get haters attacking me. Thank you for all you do!

We love refried beans. Can’t wait to try this recipe! Thanks!

What a great video!! All the dishes look just wonderfully delicious!!! SO glad you liked them. Thanks! LOVE the Marvelous Beans. Blessings...

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and for posting such helpful information and recipes on the website. Much appreciated!

you can add some of the knorr powder chicken bouillon too

This is wonderful. It is because of your advice Pam that I have canned pinto's and other varieties. I was having canned beans that smelled bad so you recommended that I use distilled water. That worked. Thank you for that! Now I have new recipes to try. You two are a blessing to this community!

I will make the pinto refried beans. made the refried beans today. delicious, it made 16 bean beef and cheese enchiladas with mexican green chili enchilada sauce I got here at our local mexicanstore. tha k you

Great video! I really enjoy pinto beans. My mom not only soaked the beans (she allowed us littles to sit at the table and sort them out removing the stones and bad beans by the age of 4 & 5), but she threw in a carrot to help remove the gas even more, then once cooked threw the carrot out. Since learning to can, I’ve returned to cooking pinto beans. Oh my, these are the best ones I’ve ever tasted in 6 decades. I guess I’ll need a bigger canner, mine won’t hold many jars. 😂

All of these recipes are new to me, so I plan to try all of them. Grew up eating lots of pinto beans, and for most of my 20's and 30's did not eat them very often. I love them now and eat them quite often. Thanks for sharing!

I can seasoned beans , both black and pinto. When I need some “Mexican beans” I get one of those. Super quick! The bean salad looks wonderful!!! I have a 10 # bag waiting to be taken care of, thank you!❤️ Be Blessed❤

You can either use a little bit of rice or a silica packet to help keep the salt from caking up

Hi, Pam & Jim! Thank you for sharing these recipies. 😊

Trader Joe's has white balsamic. 🙂

To keep my salt from clumping , I put the moisture packets from aspirin and over the counter medicines. Works great!

My family and myself love beans, just made a huge pot yesterday. Thanks for another great video.

Love both recipes. I would not think of not soaking beans overnight! Only thing you do different is the chicken broth. I'm definitely trying that next week! White balsamic vinegar. I have never heard of it. Hmmm. Of course I have brown and will use that. I love the salad too! I would make that right now if I had the ingredients! Yum. Yum to everything here! I've never done refried beans from scratch like this, but can't wait to. My landlady is Mexican, so can't wait to have here try them. I bet she loves them. I've eaten enough of her cooking ti know what she likes. ❤🎉

I can’t wait to try the recipes!!!!! Thank you for doing this series. 💕

I wonder if a few grains of rice would keep your salt from clumping? I have about 5 rice grains in my salt shakers and it works perfectly.

Yum! Thank you for this 😃👍

I love salt cellars. I use a dessicant packet in mine to keep out moisture.

New bean recipe always sought after. Thank you. I'd pile refried beans, bean salad and cheese onto a chip. Jim could make a creative burrito .

Thanks for the recipies.

Thank you so much

That summer salad looks divine!!

Will have try adding oregono when I make refied beans. I don't buy Chicken broth to often. I use Knorrs Chicken Boullion to my beans. Will need to try the Bean salad. Looks good. I have missed some of the Bean videos. Need to catch up on them. Enjoying these market video. Thank you!

Love using pintos in all kinds of Mexican recipes and those refried beans looks great I love the smooth texture

Did not find the Pinto bean recipes.

We've started buying mayacoba beans from Walmart. We love the taste more than pintos. They even cook out smoother. Sometimes the store doesn't have them in so we get them when they have them. I can't remember the price.

My mom used to add a few grains of white rice to her salt to absorb moisture. 🌷

All the mexicans that I grew up with put bacon grease in the bottom of the pan before they put the mashed beans back in. Hence the name reFRIED beans. For this reason, I think the beans cooked with ham hock would be acceptable to use for refried beans.

Yumm.

The easiest way to make refried beans (from my Mexican MIL) is to process the beans and any extras (onions, peppers, seasonings, etc) in a blender until they’re the consistency you want but a little watery. I also withhold a bit of whole beans. Heat oil (lard or bacon fat is really yummy) in a heavy skillet. Add the beans and then cook down to the consistency you want (extra liquid evaporates).

Love these recipes! Thanks. Val C

I find white balsamic vinegar at an Italian grocery store locally. It definitely has a different taste profile.

Looking forward to making the salad. Looks refreshing and cool. I keep staring at my tomatoes encouraging them to hurry and ripen! Today may be the day since it is 109 degrees right now. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you your recipes are tried and true Your knowledge is appreciated

I make a taco salad with beans. Lettuce or salad mix, tomatoes, 1 drained can of Ranch style beans, Fritos and Catalina Dressing. The measurements of the chips and dressing are up to you. It’s not a healthy recipe but it’s filling.

Great video. All the recipes look fantastic. I love authentic restaurant type refried beans. Bean really can be one of the great survival foods and can be made delicious so easily.

Great recipes and explanations! I will try them. Thanks.

I like/love most beans. I can't imagine life without eating beans on a regular basis. Some beans, I don't like in one form, but I do like them in another. Example: I dislike dried black eyed peas/cow peas. However, I really like them as a snap bean or a fresh shell pea/bean. If there's a bean I dislike in its most common form, I try to find another way to prepare it. Ya never know if ya don't try!

Thank you! I open a can of refried beans every week. I will start making these and save a bunch of money. Again, thanks.

Thank you for the wonderful variety of pinto bean dishes. I will try all of them. I was going to make refried beans yesterday, but will buy some bulk dry pinto beans and Mexican oregano and make them. I'll check out the cheese to see if I can make that from raw milk plus the Mexican market. I'm a make from scratch person so I know what's in my food!

Great video, thanks!

So economical, but I never know what to do with them. Thank you!

Love you guys! Keep up the good work. If I don’t know you’re my go to…

I want so desperately to incorporate more beans in my diet simply for the economic nutrition along with ease of storage. But I'm just not a huge fan of most beans. However, that salad looked phenomenal, and i will definitely try that. Thank you!!

You are so patient while your food is being tested! Wow! I am looking forward to even more! Ps I got kicked off … removed from your. Posts heads up!! Pay attention!

Those refried beans are impressive!

maybe it's just me but my prep supplies will never have most of the salad ingredients especially cilantro and avocado Looks like a good recipe Most interested in the refried beans. Restaurant style where we live FL you can't tell there are beans present. It's a disappointment and homemade seems like our best hope. A closeup of the refried beans would be appreciated but we know it's too late to ask. We think the food processor makes the beans too pasty. We prefer using a potato masher and I'm pretty sure I won't be running a food processor when things go bad. I'm a prepper.😊

If I’m not mistaken….I believe you can use those huge flour tortillas to make burritos…they are used to tuck the beans in fold it up and bake or fry them.

I read somewhere that adding salt to your soaking water, helps greatly in keeping up the strength of the skin of the bean. So the beans don’t get mushy. There is some science behind this about ions but I don’t remember any details or where I read this.

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Hi RoseRed, After viewing the video " 13 foods the red cross urges you to stockpile"I accidentally found your channel and learned so much from you. I don't know why you don't have several million subscribers. And after viewing your delicious recipe, I spent hours on the "swbeans recipes" site. I was surprised how versatile beans are for stretching expensive meat and as a low glycemic alternative to flour in desserts. I previously tried black bean brownies at an event at my local library-so very very delicious. And dried pinto beans will germinate I am strongly considering a solar station for powering a window air conditioning and a freezer, this year. Sarasota is prone to high humidity and hurricanes with power outages, lasting weeks. Thank you for the idea.

I like my refried beans a little chunky.

I couldn’t figure out where to get the printable recipe I really like your recipes

I love beans. Nice big pan you used, what brand is it? Didn’t see it on your shopping list.

As always, your recipes and instructions are very well informative. I wonder, have you tried freeze drying the refried beans?

The RRH video on pressure canning pintos is what started me on pressure canning. Pintos and ham hocks are my winter comfort food. Quick question for Jim, since he does most of the shopping...any recommendations for finding meaty hocks? The last few years, store-bought have been getting pretty skimpy. Thanks for the videos!

The pinto recipes are not showing on your website. Help!

Beautiful woman..🎈🎈

I love refried beans but the ones in the can are disappointing. I can’t wait to try making the one in the video! Can they be frozen ( leftovers)?

I hope this not off topic too much. What kind of hot plate do you use, and can it be used with Harvest steam canner? Thanks so much for this video.

Do you have an Italian grocery store anywhere nearby? That's where I get white balsamic vinegar

Is it safe to can ham and bean soup? The only ingredients I use in my soup are pinto beans, water, and ham.

Pam and Jim, can’t find the pinto bean recipes on your website

Up early and looking for pinto recipe and not there

Im trying flaked hulled barley for breakfast instead of oats. Wondered if you could do something on that before fall perhaps. Im rinsing night before and letting them dry over night and flakiing. They flake well but not sure if im prepping them, storing them or even cooking them right for a basic oatmeal or cookie? Trying to use them for the added fiber. Oats dont fill me. Oats fiber is 5gr per serving and hulled barley is 8!!! Also organic hulled barley is half the price with Azure Standard!

How do you think those refried beans would freeze for a single person? Freeze in pucks and save in a container to take our when you need one is what I was thinking.

I have about 6 pounds of dried pintos in my pantry for about 2 years Are they safe to can? I want to can them, but have they on the shelf too long!

Don’t forget bean pie lol

Recipe? Couldn’t find 😢

Do anyone know Roses Email address? TIA

I just went to your recipes, but last beans are bitter beans. Mo pintos. I know how toskr 2nd nut need recipe for 13:51 the refried beans😢bAnd of course the salad;

Are you OK, Rose? You’re breathing a little hard.