Best Ever Pinto Beans

Best Ever Pinto Beans
Best Ever Pinto Beans might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. Watching your figure? This gluten free and dairy free recipe has 349 calories, 23g of protein, and 6g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 22% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. If you have kosher salt, water, pinto beans, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 7 hours and 10 minutes.

Instructions

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Cover pinto beans with water in a large bowl. Soak beans for 4 hours, changing water every 30 to 45 minutes.
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Drain.
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Bring 6 cups water to a boil in a large pot.
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Add pinto beans, ham hock, and kosher salt to the pot.
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Pour in more water if needed to cover ingredients by at least 1 inch.
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Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until beans are just tender, 2 to 3 hours.
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Remove ham hock from beans; cut meat from the bone, chop the ham, and return to pot.
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Stir tomato sauce and brown sugar into the beans. Continue to simmer until beans are tender and flavors are blended, about 1 more hour.
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In7 hrs, 10 m.
Servings6
Health Score56
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