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Black Beans with Cilantro-Lime Brown Rice and Pickled Onions

Black Beans with Cilantro-Lime Brown Rice and Pickled Onions

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Makes 10-12 servings For the beans: 1 lb dried black beans 1 onion 1 bell pepper 2 jalapeo peppers 2-3 tablespoons ground cumin 2-3 tablespoons dried oregano 1 tablespoon garlic powder 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar salt pepper olive oil water lime wedges for garnish For the brown rice: 1 lb dried brown rice 5 cups water 1. 5 teaspoons salt juice of two limes cilantro to taste olive oil For the pickled onions: 1 red onion 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar The night before you want to eat, put the beans in a large bowl and cover them with at least a few inches of water to soak. Start the pickles by thinly slicing the red onion. Dissolve the sugar into the vinegar in a bowl that isn't made out of aluminum. Toss the onions in the pickling liquid. Cover and refrigerate. Stir them when you wake up in the morning. The next day, start the beans by chopping up the onion and peppers and cooking them in olive oil in a big pot until they start to soften. Drain the beans and discard the soaking water. Add them to the pot along with enough fresh water to cover by an inch. Put in the oregano, cumin, pepper, garlic powder, vinegar and sugar. Don't put in the salt yet. Simmer the pot for two hours, or until the beans are soft, stirring occasionally. Put in additional water if the beans ever stop being submerged. As soon as you've got the beans simmering, start the rice by toasting the grains in a little olive oil in a hot pot for a minute or until the rice smells nutty. Add the water and salt. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce to a simmer. Cook for about an hour, or until the water is absorbed. Juice in the limes, add as much chopped cilantro as you want, and stir it in. Leave the rice to rest on a warm setting for an hour or until the beans are ready. When the beans are soft, add salt to taste, and maybe some more vinegar or sugar. Turn off the heat and let them cool at least 15 minutes to allow the liquid to thicken. Put some rice on a plate, some beans on the rice, some onions and additional cilantro on the side with a lime wedge. NOTE: This is a re-upload. In the original version of this video, I mentioned how rice contains the amino acid methionine, which beans lack. I knew that protein combining was not as important as previously thought, but I didn't know how thoroughly the necessity of it had been debunked, so I removed that section of the video. The Wikipedia article on protein combining has a well-cited section on this topic
Date: 2019-08-15

Comments and reviews: 10


In brazil we do a lot of black beans, but here every household has a pressure cooker. The bean goes straight to the pressure cooker and stays there about 20 minutes until they are soft. Then we seazon with onions, peppers, garlic and other spices. We fry the beans and then add water and simmer for about another 10 minutes or until thickens. You may add bacon, sausages or other pork based meats. Even one of our nacional dishes is Feijoada with black beans, bancon, pork ears, pork skin, ribs and whatever other stuff you want to put on it.
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I make a chicken fajita dish that's always well received; sometimes I serve it as a fajita bowl instead, with chicken, pepper/onion/jalapeno mix, rice, and beans (black, pinto, or refried. I've been wanting to try doing a cilantro lime rice, and this entire recipe is basically the perfect addition to the way I've been making fajita bowls -- the two should be incredible together. I think I'll stick with jasmine rice (preference of other people in the house, not me, but I may try the coconut milk in the rice as mentioned by someone in the comments.
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4: 06One reason why I think your brown rice was too wet is because you put in more water than what you actually needed. When the rice was resting, some of the excess water evaporated, drying the rice. According to Dan Souza of America's Test Kitchen, it only takes one cup of water to cook one cup of rice, no matter what kind of rice you're cooking. That extra half cup of water for the standard 1 cup of rice to 1 1/2 cups of water that you see in all of the cookbooks is to account for some of the water evaporating during the cooking process.
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I used to make a variation of those beans in my school days. It was easy, cheap and very tasty. Here's how its done. 2 cups of black beans cooked. After cooking it add 2 tablespoons of sugar, cumin and cayenne pepper powder. into it while its still hot. After it cools down, put it in containers and into the fridge. The next day, for lunch or dinner, cook rice (white or brown) and take the beans from fridge, reheat, put it in a tortilla with the rice and some hot sauce. ENJOY
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if anybody have a rice cooker, follow the instruction on how to cook brown rice but add the salt and lime before you cook( toast the rice before you put it in, don't put oil in rice cookers. After the rice is done and the hour have passed, the machine would keep the rice warm so put the portioned rice into a bowl and mix with the cilantro there, if you put cilantro in the cooker it have the taste and texture of used tea leafs. add lime to taste.
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I can vouch for leaving the rice on warm for an hour. I have eaten rice for the entirety of my life and leaving it for an hour on warm does improve it. It doesn't have to be for brown rice, too. Even your plain rice, if you leave it on warm after an hour, will be even better. Never went back to the usual way of immediately serving freshly cooked rice when I found out about that. Also, stale rice is perfect for fried rice.
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For my pickeled onions I boil 1 cup apple cider vinegar, 1 cup red wine vinegar, 2 tablespoons of sugar and a pinch of ground black peppercorns. Bring it to a boil, let it boil for a minute or so then cut the heat and add your julianned red onions (maybe 3 or 4 big ones. I'll put them on sandwiches and salads they're fantastic.
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I made this recipe and was into everything about it except the beans were sweet. Is that Cuban style or can I dial down the sugar and still avoid a grainy texture? Love your videos, very well shot and I love that you explain 'why' you prefer yada yada. More videos please
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4: 22 I don't get this part, 2 hrs for brown rice. As a Indian I eat rice daily, it only takes about 20 mins to cook, use a pressure cooker. A pressure cooker (Indian style) will be cheap to moderate in price but it will save you almost 90 mins of your limited time
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Vegans. Oh please. The beans, the onions, and the vinegar are grown and produced on farms that require pesticide to kill millions of living animals. You can't even grow an onion field without killing a dozen rabbits, and other root-eating mammals, and their babies.
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