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A Recipe by Richard Mann Easy? You want easy? OK, here's the absolute pinnacle of easiness. Sort through some beans, soak them overnight, and dump them in a crock pot with a jar of salsa. (Well, OK, soaking them overnight takes some planning. So use canned beans. Then it will be the easiest darn recipe you ever had.) After they've cooked all day, you have a heavenly pot of beans.
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Aztec Black Beans
1 pound dried black or turtle beans (or 16-ounce cans black beans, drained)
1 16 ounce jar salsa (your favorite kind)
water
Pick over and rinse the beans, removing any foreign objects. Place in a large bowl and cover with water. Soak overnight. (Or use any of the quick-soak methods or used canned beans. Your choice.)
Drain the beans and discard the soaking water. Put them in a crock pot with the salsa and stir. Add just enough water to cover the beans. Cover and cook on low all day, 8 to 10 hours.
These freeze well.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Editor's note: I made this dish using dry beans. As we've discussed elsewhere on the site, I have been having a hard time getting my dry beans soft enough. Soaking overnight doesn't seem to do the job. When I made these beans, they stayed pretty hard, even after all day in the crockpot. I let them cook on in the pot overnight, a total of 36 hours. They never got soft.
I haven't solved this problem definitively, but our best guess at this point is that our Utah water is too hard. My next pot of these beans will be made using bottled water. We'll let you know if this helped, in the off chance that you, too, have this problem. (I discussed it at length with the folks on a Slow Cooker mailing list--on Yahoo Groups at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slowcooker--where we found that most folks who made this recipe had no trouble at all with hard beans. It has to be my altitude, the hard water, or both.)
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