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Ingredient: dry pinto beans

Instant Pot Frijoles con Chorizo (adapted from Buen Provecho, New Jersey, 1995)

Instant Pot Frijoles con Chorizo is a hearty take on refried beans suitable for a Mexican family feast.  This recipes comes to me by way of Buen Provecho: 500 Years of Hispanic Cuisine, a 1995 community cookbook compiled by the AT&T Hispanic Employees Association.  It’s a huge step up from your run-of-the-mill canned refritos, and……

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Frijoles Puercas (adapted from Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking, 1958)

If I had to distill the spirit and joie de vivre of into a single recipe it would have to be Frijoles Puercas.  Not Frijoles con Puercas, just plain old Frijoles Puercas.  The name translates literally as “pig beans”, and while it contains pork products that’s not where it got its name.  According to Mrs…….

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