Pinto Recipes

Yummy beans with bits of smoked ham.

A somewhat healthier take on this Costa Rican jack-of-all trades dish. I've substituted brown rice for the traditional white rice.

This versatile dish can be matched with eggs, queso blanco, and tortillas for a heartly breakfast. It can also serve as the base for lunches or dinners. In fact, I often eat it alone with a berry smoothie as a post run recover meal because of it's healthy balance of carbs and protein.

A flavor powerhouse of protien!! Cooked with no meat or meat by products. Easy to prepare by putting it all in a crock pot.

Serve with whole wheat tortillas and a home made Pico De Gallo and it is a surefire hit for the whole family.

Also the left overs are really good to mash up the next day with some lime juice and serve with tortilla chips!

"Gallo Pinto" is a typical Costa Rican breakfast dish. It is generally accompanied by fried eggs on top, meat and sometimes with a side of fried ripe plantain (Platano Maduro).

Slow Cooker Version of My Grandma's Family Recipe with Turkey Bacon.

Easy to make when short on funds.

Great hearty meal that is loaded with vegetables!

This is a mild chilli that is great on cornbread, crackers, hotdogs or fries! You can always spice it up with some added jalapeños.

Great Veggie Pattie! Wheat free, gluten free, egg free Pattie.

I just threw together a low fat soup with what I had on hand. It was pretty tasty too!

Sausage with pinto and black eye peas

I love making chili. This is made from all natural ingredients, and absolutely delicious. Great Crockpot recipe.

Healthful, easy and warming. Mmmmm. Beans in this recipe soak overnight, so be forewarned. Lovely over brown rice.

Delicious. Double the recipe and freeze the rest if desired. Serve with plenty of cornbread for sopping up the bean juice!

This recipe makes quite a bit of food. most would probably split this into six servings, but its more realistic for me and my family as four servings. Hearty soup for a cold day.

I was fortunate to have a farmer's wife talk me into buying one of her heirloom white zucchini squash at the farmer's market this morning.
She extolled the virtues of it being sweeter and more flavorful than zucchini, and drier so that it retains it's shape and texture when sauteed and added to tomato sauce over pasta.
I've included a photo of the Italian zucchini, with an ear of corn for size comparison, so you know what to look for. Trust me, it's well worth the search. It's official name is Lungo Bianco di Sicilia.

I was in the mood for a spicier dish without pasta, and whipped up this Mexican inspired veggie and bean stew for dinner. I served it on a bed of shredded romaine lettuce tossed in 1/2 a Tbs of balsamic vinegar and loved it. I hope you do, too.

JUST A POT OF BEANS...
A pot of beans can be cooked in a crock pot and or large stew pot. I prefer the crock pot. Once the beans are made can be served as a appetiser(dips), side dish(whole or mashed) , an entree served with cornbread, or used for several other recipes such as; chilli and beans and brown rice.

This soup has a lot of calories but I guarantee you won't feel the need to eat for hours after eating it because it fills you up for a long time...besides it's great for the cold weather because it makes you sweat on your second spoon!

This chili is super easy, and it's good whether you use ground beef or chopped round roast.

Low-calorie.

Recipe from "Decolonize Your Diet" by Catriona Esquibel and Luz Calvo

Pinto Beans in a Crock Pot

These beans are great in burritos, as a side dish, or even as a soup! My family gobbled them up. :-) Put this in the crockpot and let it cook all day. No need to presoak the beans!

This turned out to be a very hardy, vegetable rich soup/stew. Perfect for a cold winter's day! (I bought a can of pork thinking this would be a good way to store protein for emergency purposes. Found recipes at https://www.neighborsmn.org/wp-content/upl
oads/2019/06/7-19-Flyer-Canned-Pork-.pdf. I used low sodium products to lower the salt content.)

Just a plain, cheap way to cook pinto beans. You can also use dry black beans or dry kidney beans, if you like.

vegetarian, no added salt