Refried Beans Crock Pot Recipes

Steps:

• Sort and rinse dried beans; place in crockpot and cover with water (by several inches) and soak overnight.
• In the morning, drain and rinse beans (discarding soaking water).
• Return beans to crock pot, and add 6 cups water and the salt.
• Cover and cook on low for 10-12 hours or until beans are nice and tender.
• Drain cooked beans, reserving cooking liquid.
• Mash beans and return to crock (or may mash in the crock pot).
• In a small skillet, saute onion and garlic in lard or butter until tender and lightly golden; add to crock pot.
• Stir in chopped green chillies and ground cumin, adding some of the reserved cooking liquid to adjust the consistency as desired.
• Cover crock, and cook on high for 15-30 minutes or until heated through nicely, stirring occasionallly (may add additional liquid if needed).
• Adjust salt, if necessary, before serving.
• Garnish with cheese or chopped onion, if desired.

Steps:

• Sort and rinse beans, add to crockpot, cover with 6 cups of water and soak overnight.
• Remove water from the crockpot and rinse beans.
• Add 6 cups of water and salt.
• Cover and cook at least 10 hours.
• Remove liquid and save for later.
• Move beans to a bowl.
• Sauté onions and garlic in oil over medium heat until tender, then add to blender along with chilies and cumin.
• Blend until smooth.
• Add about 2 cups of the cooked beans to blender and blend until smooth.
• Pour into crock pot.
• repeat until all of the beans have been blended and added to the crockpot.
• Stir well and add liquid from cooking the beans into the crockpot about 1 cup at a time until the beans are the consistency that you like, I usually do about 2 cups.
• Cook on high for about 30 minutes.
• Stir and enjoy.

Steps:

• The night before you want to cook the beans.
• Rinse beans several times in warm water.
• Put them in a large pot.
• Cover with cold water up to 2-3 inches above beans.
• Let set over night.
• Drain and rinse beans.
• Layer bacon strips on bottom of crock pot.
• Top with remaining ingredients and beans.
• Cover with water about 1 inch or so above beans.
• Add remaining ingredients to pot.
• Turn on and cook all day until beans are tender.
• Bacon will float to the top but that's ok.
• Remove bay leaves.
• Mash beans with potato masher.
• As mashed as you like them.
• I mash the bacon up with the beans but you can remove it.
• I like to leave it with some whole beans too.
• You can re-cook these in a non stick skillet.
• Serve with grated cheese and chopped green onions.
• Or anything else that you like to go with your beans.

Steps:

• Drain soaked beans and place in a crock pot along with remaining ingredients except salt. Make sure that the beans are covered with liquid by about 1".
• Stir well, cover and cook on low all day, about 8-10 hours, until tender. Keep an eye on them and make sure they don't get dry.
• Add salt.
• Use a potato masher or heat safe (canning) jar bottom to mash well and stir with a wooden spoon.
• Continue to mash and stir until desired consistency.
• To freeze, put in a freezer Ziploc and flatten into a layer to freeze, or no more than 2" deep in freezer containers.

Steps:

• Rinse beans under water and pick through, discarding any weird broken bean pieces or other debris. Place beans in a 3-quart or larger Crock Pot and fill Crock Pot with water to about 2 - 3 inches above the beans. Cover and let sit overnight, or for at least 8 hours.
• Discard soaking water by pouring beans into a colander. Rinse beans. Return beans to the Crock Pot.
• Add vegetable broth, olive oil, garlic, onion powder, cumin, chili powder, and salt.
• Cook on low for 8 - 10 hours, until beans are cooked through.
• Turn off Crock Pot and remove lid to allow beans to cool a bit so that they're safer to handle. Using an immersion blender, blend beans to desired consistency (you might like your beans to be 100% smooth, or chunky with a few beans still left whole). A note on liquid level: Crock Pots can vary, so if before blending, the liquid is still above the level of the beans, you may want to skim a little off and reserve the liquid for possibly thinning later on. Mine cook down and end up at the perfect consistency with exactly 3 cups vegetable broth, and I don't need to remove any of the liquid before blending.
• Turn Crock Pot back on to low and let pureed beans sit and cook for another 30 minutes or so. This will help the beans to thicken up and the flavors to develop.
• Taste and add additional salt if desired. I actually like to use 2 teaspoons kosher salt up front, but I like mine a bit salty. If beans are too thick, add additional vegetable broth and stir. If beans are too thin, let sit for a little longer and they will thicken up nicely.
• Squeeze half a lime over the top of the beans before serving, if desired.
• These keep in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 2 - 3 days, or you can keep them frozen for several months. They will thicken after sitting. Just thin with vegetable broth or water to the desired consistency.

Steps:

• Place the onion, rinsed beans, jalapeno, garlic, salt, pepper, and cumin into a slow cooker. Pour in the water and stir to combine. Cook on High for 8 hours, adding more water as needed. Note: if more than 1 cup of water has evaporated during cooking, then the temperature is too high.
• Once the beans have cooked, strain them, and reserve the liquid. Mash the beans with a potato masher, adding the reserved water as needed to attain desired consistency.

Steps:

• Soak beans at least 4 hours or up to 12 hours in plenty of water. (I soak the beans in the crock pot.).
• Add to the beans one of the garlic cloves, finely minced, 2 tablespoons of the onion, bay leaf and a dash of black pepper.
• Cover and cook on HIGH for 2-3 hours (or until beans start to boil) then cook on LOW for approximately 5-6 additional hours. Or cook on LOW all day for about 9-10 hours.
• Once cooking time has commenced, check to see if beans are soft. DO NOT drain!
• Heat a cast iron skillet* on medium heat and saute the onion, other garlic clove, cumin powder, and oregano in a little bit of oil. With a slotted spoon, transfer the cooked beans to the skillet and begin by mashing using a potato masher. Add some reserved cooking liquid to help mash; mashing to desired consistency. (I puree most of the beans as we like our beans on the soupy side.).
• Once the beans are mashed to your liking, stir in the liquid smoke and butter, and about 1 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring constantly until butter is melted. Taste and adjust all seasonings. You will probably need more salt.
• Serve and garnish each serving with a sprinkle of grated cheddar cheese and some green onion slices.
• Save about 2 cups of the reserved cooking liquid for reheating the refried beans. DO NOT use water to rehydrate!
• *Cast iron will alter the color of the beans. This does NOT effect the taste.

Steps:

• Soak beans overnight or for 8 hours. Discard floating beans and beans that are cracked.
• Rinse beans thoroughly under cold water. Add beans to Crockpot, cover with 1" of water.
• Add salt - approximately 1 tablespoon.
• Add approximately 1 teaspoon of garlic & chili powders.
• Add 1 1/2 (approx) of cumin.
• Sprinkle red pepper flakes.
• Cook on low 4-6 hours or until beans are tender.
• Once beans are done transfer some of your beans to the Cuisnart. Add some of your cooking water. Mix until blended.

Steps:

• Sort & rinse beans. Place in crockpot, cover with water and soak 8 hours or overnight.
• Drain water from beans & rinse again. Remove water from the crockpot and rinse again.
• Place back in crock pot and add water & salt. Cover and cook on low 10 hours.
• Reserving liquid, drain beans & place in bowl.
• Heat oil in skillet & saute onions and garlic over medium heat until tender. Transfer to blender.
• Add chilies, cumin, and jalepenos, and blend until smooth.
• Add cooked beans (in batches---there's too much to do all at once) to blender and blend until smooth. Pour into crock pot.
• Stir well and gradually add reserved liquid until beans reach desired consistency.
• Cook on high 20-30 minutes.