# Rice and Beans 101

This recipe shows how to make rich, creamy, and flavorful rice and beans, a classic Mexican side dish.

- Servings: 1 servings
- Total time: 8 min
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Side
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 cups black beans
- 4 cups water
- 1.5 white onions
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 avocado leaves
- 2 fresh bay leaves
- 4 fresh epazote
- 1 tablespoon neutral oil
- 1 pinch kosher salt
- 1 can canned whole tomatoes
- 1 quarter of a teaspoon ground cumin
- 14 ounces chicken stock
- 1 cup long grain rice
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 0.5 cup corn kernels
- 0.5 cup green peas
- 1 serrano chile
- 1 handful cilantro
- 1 handful queso fresco

## Instructions

1. Go through all the beans to make sure there's no pieces of rock, pieces of wood, or any imperfection.
2. Rinse the beans to remove dust.
3. Put the beans in a large bowl and add four cups of water. Store in the fridge overnight.
4. Bring eight cups of water to a boil in a pot.
5. Add the soaked beans, one and a half onions, four cloves of garlic, two avocado leaves, and four epazote leaves (or three or four stems of cilantro) to the boiling water.
6. Lower the heat and simmer for 60–90 minutes.
7. Once the beans are cooked, remove the onions and the leaves.
8. In another pan, make a sofrito with one tablespoon of neutral oil and half of a diced onion.
9. Add some of the cooked beans and their liquid to the sofrito, season with salt.
10. Simmer for 15–20 minutes.
11. Make a tomato broth by blending canned whole tomatoes, cumin, half an onion, two cloves of garlic, salt and 14 ounces of chicken stock.
12. Wash the rice to remove starch.
13. In a pan, toast the rice in a tablespoon of canola oil until nicely browned.
14. Add the tomato broth to the rice.
15. Simmer for 12–13 minutes. Do not stir.
16. Add corn, green peas, diced carrots, and a whole serrano pepper to the rice.
17. Add cilantro. Let sit for 10–15 minutes.
18. Serve the rice and beans, garnished with queso fresco.

## Equipment

- baking sheet
- sieve
- large bowl
- pot
- knife
- wooden spoon
- blender
- small bowl

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/JGEsSDUCr_c?si=fJB5lEhEO3H5WB0b
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/2f590698-9c7e-4df9-b0be-3af33092cd42
- Extracted: 2025-04-28

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