What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Something to Savor: Refried Beans Restaurant-Style! Copycat recipes are so much fun to share with the family, especially when tweaked to express your own personal taste. If you’ve been to more than one Mexican restaurant, which most of us have, you’ve probably noticed an order of refried beans can be extra-creamy, smooth or chunky, blah or spicy. No worries. If you like the earthy taste, substitute black beans for the pinto beans. The same goes for a slightly smoky taste. That effect comes from bacon drippings instead of olive oil. For authentic results you may even choose to begin from scratch. I was pretty pleased with the results featured here.
REFRIED BEANS RESTAURANT-STYLE
Ingredients:
16-ounce can refried beans, traditional
16-ounce can pinto beans, drained
1 tablespoon bacon drippings
1 small onion, chopped
1/8 teaspoon cumin powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/3 cup Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
2-3 jalapeño peppers, pickled and sliced
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°. In a skillet over medium heat, add bacon drippings. Sauté chopped onions until fragrant, 2-3 minutes. Stir in cumin powder, garlic powder, and sea salt. Add refried beans. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Fold in pinto beans. Reduce heat. Warm until bubbly, stirring occasionally. Spoon mixture into individual ovenproof bowls. Place bowls. on a baking sheet. Top each with Monterey Jack cheese. Bake 5-8 minutes until cheese is melted and beans are bubbly. Carefully remove baking sheet from oven. Garnish with jalapeño slices.
This sounds like a nice way to serve this. I’ve been eating more refried beans recently. They’re great to use in making myself breakfast burritos.
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I agree. Burritos are a nice option. 😜
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I love refried beans. Eating it with rice. I make tostadas and use this as my base too.
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You can’t go wrong, in my opinion. 😍
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Yum – Sounds great. I’ve been making a breakfast burrito lately with an egg, refried beasn, rice, and a bit of cheese and salsa. It’s tasty and gives me enough energy to go for a while.
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Sounds like a lunch style burrito lol. But that sounds good, I’ll love to try that with avocado inside too
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Love refried beans – have the ingredients but need some chips!
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When you buy some, get two bags. Then store one in the freezer. I do it all the time. 🤣
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That’s interesting – I never would have thought to do that. Thanks for the tip 🙂
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Bacon drippings . . . cheese . . . jala!
That’s how you do it. 🙂
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Oops. I did admit to putting that in there, didn’t I? 😜
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Ya did . . .
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Another creative idea!
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When home is the only place you are….lol 🍃🌶
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See, that’s another proof that every challenge also holds a chance… hehe.
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Love the addition of the jalapeño!
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Not much, but it makes a difference in taste. 🍃🌶
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This is irresistible.
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I always ask for “no rice, extra beans” at my Mexican restaurant. lol 🤣
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