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Easy Mexican Recipes Using Beans

easy recipes using beans

Beans are one of the most versatile Mexican ingredients but don't limit them to the side dish realm!  You can easily turn them into a full meal if you want to.  Keep an eye out for the Molletes and the all-important How To Make Refried Beans.

Spicy Black Bean and Guacamole Tostadas

September 4, 2017 By Patrick 6 Comments

Serious reward to effort ratio here! We're crisping a corn tortilla and loading it up with spicy black bean puree and a refreshing guacamole. So good! mexicanplease.com

These Black Bean and Guacamole Tostadas are the perfect example of Mexican cuisine’s generous reward-to-effort ratio.  You get so much in return here for doing so little work. And not only that, you’ll probably have black bean puree leftovers, which means for the next few days you can whip up killer insta-meals whenever you get…

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Filed Under: Beans, Main Dish, Most Recent, Tacos, Vegetarian

Black Bean and Rice Cakes with Chipotle Crema

July 7, 2017 By Patrick 6 Comments

These Black Bean and Rice Cakes are a vegetarian delight with incredible flavor and loads of healthy protein. Drenching them in a Chipotle Crema takes them to another level. So good! mexicanplease.com

This Black Bean and Rice Cakes recipe is for all of you carnivores out there who can’t imagine having good energy throughout the day without eating meat.  And by ‘you’ I guess I mean ‘me’ because the genesis of this recipe came about when trying to create a beans and rice dish that kept me…

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Filed Under: Beans, Main Dish, Most Recent, Vegetarian

Spicy Black Bean Pizza

June 26, 2017 By Patrick 6 Comments

A crispy, thin crust pizza that relies on a delicious black bean puree and a thin layer of garlic oil to create a vegetarian delight. So good! mexicanplease.com

This Black Bean Pizza comes with special permission to customize the topping list to your liking.  But only if you use plenty of the spicy black bean puree that’s underneath all the toppings — that’s the key! It also comes with significantly less guilt than meat-based pizza because of its vegetarian nature, which means it’s…

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Filed Under: Beans, Main Dish, Most Recent, Vegetarian

Say Hello to Cranberry Beans

March 31, 2017 By Patrick 7 Comments

You can think of these Cranberry Beans as Pinto Beans Lite. They have a similar flavor to pintos but are creamier and slightly less 'beany'. A great option for refried beans. mexicanplease.com

Cranberry beans are a common substitute for pinto beans in some parts of Mexico.  I’ve been looking forward to experimenting with them and finally opened up a few packs that have been sitting on the counter for the past couple weeks. They’re hard to come by in my neck of the woods so I ordered some from…

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Filed Under: Beans, Mexican Cooking 101, Most Recent, Vegetarian

Pinto Bean Soup — Sopa Tarasca

January 24, 2017 By Patrick 41 Comments

Sopa Tarasca is one of Mexico's most popular soups -- a delightfully satiating pinto bean soup that will keep you coming back for more. So good! mexicanplease.com

This Pinto Bean Soup (Sopa Tarasca) has a reward-to-effort ratio that’s off the charts.  By keeping just a few key ingredients on hand you’ll always have the option of turning this popular soup into a whoa-what-is-this meal. Quick summary of instructions: Put bowl of Sopa Tarasca on kitchen table along with spoon, lime wedges, and a quesadilla bursting…

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Filed Under: Beans, Most Popular, Most Recent, Soup, Vegetarian

Spicy Black Bean Nachos

October 17, 2016 By Patrick 18 Comments

It's tough to beat the combo of warm tortilla chips, melted cheese, and spicy black beans. In other words, NACHOS!! These beans have some kick built into them from chipotles in adobo and they are beyond delicious. mexicanplease.com

It’s tough to beat the combo of warm tortilla chips, melted cheese, and spicy black beans.  In other words…NACHOS! nachos / nah-cho-zz! / noun 1. tortilla chips topped with melted cheese and warm goopy beans 2. an increasingly popular exclamation used to denote an impending, much deserved reward; similar in use to Yes! or Right on! We’re…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Beans, Most Popular, Most Recent, Vegetarian

Mexican Black Bean Soup

June 3, 2016 By Patrick 19 Comments

This Mexican Black Bean Soup has incredible flavor despite letting the beans do most of the work. So good! mexicanplease.com

My new favorite soup. Easy to make, filling, and it tastes incredible.  Sound too good to be true? Mother Nature deserves the credit here as the simple black bean is doing most of the heavy lifting.   Our job is to add just enough flava to make these nutritional powerhouses sing. Mexican Black Bean Soup Recipe…

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Enfrijoladas Recipe — What To Do With All Those Mexican Beans

March 18, 2016 By Patrick 36 Comments

Enfrijoladas Recipe -- Corn Tortillas With Bean Puree mexicanplease.com

Enfrijoladas are one of Mexico’s most common ‘dinner in a hurry’ meals.  They are less common north of the border because people tend to limit beans to the ‘side dish’ realm. But that usually means they’ve never tried warm corn tortillas drenched in a chili-infused bean puree. Enfrijoladas also happens to be on the lookout for a stable, long term relationship.  It’s more than willing…

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Filed Under: Beans, Enchiladas, Main Dish, Most Recent, Vegetarian

Must Try These Peruano Beans (aka Peruvian, Canary, Mayocoba, or Mexican Yellow Beans)

March 11, 2016 By Patrick 42 Comments

Peruano Beans (aka Canary, Mayocoba, Peruvian, Mexican Yellow Beans) mexicanplease.com

Peruano beans are the quiet sibling when sitting next to Black and Pinto at the dinner table. Black and Pinto do all the talking, constantly arguing their case for a coveted spot on your Mexican dinner plate.  Peruano is happy to sit smugly next to them, confident in its case to overtake both of them in the…

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Filed Under: Beans, Mexican Cooking 101, Most Recent, Vegetarian

Simple, Epic Refried Beans

March 4, 2016 By Patrick Leave a Comment

Homemade Mexican Refried Beans mexicanplease.com

You are 10-15 minutes away from authentic refried beans that will outperform anything you can get north of the border. But the question is……where are you starting from?  Are you using homemade beans or canned beans? If you’re starting with homemade beans then give yourself a quick congratulations as most of the work is already done. For…

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Filed Under: Beans, Mexican Cooking 101, Most Recent, Vegetarian

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