Frijoles Negros

Name: Frijoles Negros
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Cuban
Ingredients: 2 cups black beans, soaked; 1 onion, chopped; 1 green pepper, chopped; 1 bay leaf

Frijoles Negros/free-HOH-les NEH-gros/

Also known as: Cuban Black Beans

About this dish

Black beans simmered slowly with sofrito until thick and richly flavored.

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Ingredients

🫘2 cups black beans, soaked

🧅1 onion, chopped

🫑1 green pepper, chopped

🍁1 bay leaf

Method

Serves 2

Simmer the soaked beans in water until nearly tender.

Sauté onion, pepper, and garlic into a sofrito.

Stir the sofrito into the beans along with cumin and bay leaf.

Continue simmering until the beans are very tender and the liquid thickened.

Serve over white rice.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Frijoles negros is a Cuban staple side dish, commonly served over white rice as a foundational daily meal.

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