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Crockpot Pinto Beans

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Cook delicious Pinto Beans in your crockpot or slow cooker! This healthy Crockpot Pinto Beans recipe is so easy to make! You will need some dried pinto beans as well as a few other ingredients to make this flavorful, healthy recipe! Besides being good for you this pinto bean recipe is very inexpensive to make.

Enjoy these Crockpot Pinto Beans alone or on top of rice, couscous, or quinoa. I especially love these beans on a taco salad! They are perfect in burritos, enchiladas, tostadas and so many other recipes. Mash or serve them whole. So many possibilites! In this cooking video Karen Breyer will show you step-by-step how to make these tasty Crockpot Pinto Beans. Watch this cooking video and make this delicious Crockpot Pinto Beans recipe today!

Yield: 6 servings

Crockpot Pinto Beans

Ingredients

  • 1 pound pinto beans, dry
  • Water
  • 1/2 teaspoon oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin, ground
  • 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Instructions

  1. Sort the beans. Remove any stones, debris or withered beans. Rinse well.
  2. Place beans in a crockpot. Cover with cold water and soak 8 hours or overnight.
  3. After soaking, drain and rinse the beans.
  4. Return the beans to the crockpot. Cover with 7 cups of clean, cold water.
  5. Stir in the rest of the ingredients except the salt.
  6. Cook on high for 4 1/2 - 5 hours or on low 8 1/2 - 9 hours. Cook until the beans are soft.
  7. Add the salt when the beans are almost finished. Add more spices at this time if desired.
  8. Cook until the beans are as tender as you like them.

Notes

These pinto beans are delicious over rice, potatoes, couscous, quinoa and in a taco salad. They are a good side dish, filling for burritos and on tostadas.

You can mash them with a fork or potato masher and use them like refried beans.

Add a medium diced onion if desired.

The pinto beans may take more or less time to cook depending on your crockpot or slow cooker.

The longer the soaking time, the shorter the cooking time.

© Karen Breyer

 

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