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Black Beans and Tomatoes - Hot and Spicy
"Quick and tasty lunch or side dish for dinner."
photo by yogiclarebear
- Ready In:
- 21mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- vegetable oil cooking spray
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, smashed
- 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans whole tomatoes, drained and coarsely chopped
- 2 (15 ounce) cans black beans, drained
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1⁄4 cup minced fresh cilantro
directions
- Coat a large nonstick skillet with veggie spray.
- add olive oil, and place over medium high heat until hot.
- Add garlic, sauté until tender.
- Add chopped tomatoes, reduce heat and cook uncovered 6 minutes or until mixture is slightly thickened.
- Stir in beans, cayenne pepper and cilantro, cover and cook 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro if desired.
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Reviews
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Having to cook beans from scratch (with pre-soaking!), since we don't get them in cans here, has always made me think twice before making a beans dish because it takes so much longer. But this recipe was absolutely worth it! I used red kidney beans, which the tomatoes complimented perfectly and gave them a lovely tang. Also, I used black pepper since I didn't have cayenne, so it was less spicy, but it still made a great side for rotis at dinner tonight. Thanks Dorothy, this one's for keeps! -
Hot & Spicy love it!- I cut the recipe in half and used 1 tsp chili flakes in lieu of the cayenne. I didn't have fresh Cilanto but I did have fresh FROZEN cilantro in 1 tsp cubes - wonderful it does the job just like fresh. The canned tomatoes were Fire roasted (something new?). Served with Costa Rican Chilasquiles. The two recipes really compliment each other. Thanks Derf for yet another winner - I do love your recipes — posted Oct 12, 2004 Added comments - I have had a serving of this recipe frozen since my Oct 04 review and defrosted it for tonights dinner - perfect-I added an Anduille sausage and another 1/2 rsp of chile flakes - Wonderful again! Thanks Derf again -
Loved this! I altered it a bit --used 5 Roma tomatoes, extra garlic, 1/4 cup fresh broccoli and only 1 can of beans. Instead of cayenne, I used Hungarian (Indian?) paprika and about 1 TBLS. of Chana Masala (I love Indian spices). Ate this w/a warm tortilla for lunch. It was just perfect. So quick, filling and yummy. -
YUMMY!!!! I really don't need to say any more. I can cook a pot of these and some rice and live on it for days!!! I added the tomato juice because I mixed it with the rice and it was really, really good. -
Needs more cayenne, but otherwise this is a fantastic, quick meal! My partner and I have enjoyed it at least a half dozen times in the past couple of months. It's also good without cilantro, if one of your family, like me, have the gene that makes cilantro taste awful. I do recommend doubling or tripling the cayenne if you like spice even a little bit - at 1/2 tsp for the batch, I can't even detect it.
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Tweaks
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Fabulous recipe..... had to substitute mango salsa for tomatoes since I didn't have any on hand and it turned out awesome. -
Derf, this was great. UPDATE: today I took the leftovers and mixed in some Italian salad dressing; as I thought, it was very good. You might want to try just some oil and lemon juice instead of the dressing. Season to taste. Original review: I only made half a recipe; that was a mistake. Love the flavors. To be truthful. it was Clare Lorraine's photo that prompted me to make this recipe. And the finished product looked just like the photo. I used parsley because I don't "do" cilantro. I'm sure this would make a good cold (room temp) salad too with a little vinaigrette. A keeper for us.....Janet -
Really great way to prepare black beans! Super flavorful, super easy and really enjoyable. My 2 year old DEVOURED the black beans out of this dish and my 4 year old (who's SUPER picky!) even had 2 helping! They both just ate the beans out of the dish but the tomatoes were instrumental in bringing great flavor to the beans. I'd actually really like to try this dish again and substitute all fresh tomatoes for the 2 cans of diced tomatoes. I think that would even make this more wonderful. Thank you for a GREAT way to make black beans. We'll definitely be making this one again! -
I really liked this dish!!!. I cut the recipe in half, and substituted the can of tomatoes for a can of Rotel, based on BerrySweet's review. The result was quite spicy but delicious. Thank you for sharing :) -
I'm still a Dorothy "groupie". This was so easy to do and so good. I used a can of Romano and Kidney beans instead of black beans. Had it with tortilla and extra hot sauce with leftovers for "afters". Thanks again Dorothy.
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