Crock Pot o'Pintos

Ingredients:

  • 1 lbs dry pinto beans
  • Chicken stock
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 1/2 tsp pure chile powder (not blended)
  • 1/2 lbs smoked ham or sausage, diced (or thick-sliced bacon, fried and diced, with 1 Tbsp bacon drippings added to pot)
  • Salt to taste

Preparation:

Pick over and rinse beans several times. Put beans in slow cooker and cover with chicken stock. Add onion, cumin, chile powder and meat. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.

Add salt. Allow beans to cook for 4 more hours.

NOTE: For thicker beans, when beans are tender, purée (about 1 cup of beans with some cooking liquid in blender and return to pot.

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