Puerto Rican Style Beans

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Nutritional Info

Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 157.9

Total Fat: 3.5 g
Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
Sodium: 846.4 mg
Total Carbs: 28.3 g
Dietary Fiber: 5.3 g
Protein: 4.9 g

View full nutritional breakdown of Puerto Rican Style Beans calories by ingredient

Introduction

Here is a tasty way to make beans for your rice. Here is a tasty way to make beans for your rice.

Minutes to Prepare: 10

Minutes to Cook: 25

Number of Servings: 4

Ingredients

2 tsp canola oil

1 can of beans (15.5oz) pinto, red, etc.

1 can of tomato sauce 8oz

1 packet of sazon

2 tbsp sofrito

7 olives (manzanilla) stuffed with pimiento

1 tsp capers

2 medium sized potatoes peeled and cubed

1 can of water (use tomato sauce can)

Directions

Put oil in a deep saucepan and saute the sofrito. After 3 mins add tomato sauce, sazon, olives, and capers. Stir for 2 minutes.

Add the beans, potatoes, water and stir.

Turn heat to medium high. When boiling, cover with a lid and turn heat to low.

Wait 20 mins and they are ready. Makes 4, 1 cup servings.

You can make this with the following kinds of beans. Black, Red kidney, pigeon peas, small red beans, lima beans, pinto beans, black-eyed peas, pink beans, or chick peas.

Number of Servings: 4

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MAKINGHERPROUD.